Side/window Air Bag problems of the 2008 Toyota RAV4

Backing my Rav4 out of the garage after an oil change, I did a three point turn in the drive way. When I put it in reverse again to get closer to my garage the side air bags deployed. Only the side bags and seat belts, and I did not contact anything. Toyota will not cover the repairs (or diagnosis), and insurance will not pay for the diagnosis!.

Driver side air bag fault lite on. I was told it requires a new sensor and a spring. I own a 2002 Toyota corolla no trouble so far. The car has over 200000 miles on it. I have asked over 65 people with Toyota rav. 4/ years 2008 -2009 and -2011 cars, if they have had any trouble with there cars. They all said not so far.

2008 Toyota rav 4. Consumer writes in regards to recall for curtain shield airbag sensor when the consumer contacted the dealer to make an appointment to have the recall performed, the dealer informed him they do not perform recalls on saturdays.

The contact owns a 2008 Toyota Rav4. The vehicle was sitting in a residential garage when it was started and all frontal and rear curtain airbags deployed. The housing for the curtain air bags flew across the vehicle and there was damage to the pet element, leather interior and front and passenger sides of the vehicle. A passenger sustained severe lacerations to the left hand from the seat belt tightening around the hand upon deployment. Another passenger sustained burns to the chest from the explosion. A police report was not filed. The vehicle was inspected by the manufacturer and the event data recorder determined that the vehicle sensor malfunctioned and reacted as if the vehicle was involved in a seventy degree lateral rollover within 4. 2 seconds of starting the vehicle. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 19,500.

My air bag light was on off and on for two years on my Toyota rav 4. Everytime I brought it in the mechanic would run a test and say that it was just a glitch in the system. We asked them if it was ok to drive and they said it was fine. On the day the airbags really messed up my friend and I were sitting in my car, I turned the ignition on and the side air bags on both sides exploded. It felt like someone had put a bomb in my car. My friend fractured her sternum and I had a severe closed head injury, a hole in my ear drum, and the muscles in my neck were messed up. The rav has been in the shop and they are waiting for someone to come out and do a final check on it.

2008 rav 4 side air bags inflate when starting vehicle causing personal injury. Vehicle is in repair.

Turned on ignition and the side airbags deployed.

I got in my vehicle, shut the door, put the key in the ignition and both the driver and passenger side airbags deployed.

Driver side air bag.