Air Bag Not Deploy problems of the 2005 Toyota Scion Xa

On September 9, 2015 after starting the car at a store - the airbag light (srs light) came on and stayed on . The owners manual said to contact Toyota immediately or take the car in to a dealer. I called stevinson Toyota/scion in aurora, CO where the car was purchased 10 years ago. The first available service appointment was in two days on 9/11/15. The service representative said that the only problem might be if I got into an accident and the air bag might not deploy but this did not alleviate my concerns so I did not drive unless necessary. At the dealer they told me that I would have to pay $185 to have the car checked out even though I insisted that this was a safety issue and should be under warranty, but to no avail. After checking the car out Toyota replaced a spiral cable and charged me $585 total. I again insisted to the service manager that this should be a safety issue and covered by Toyota, but again was denied. When I searched the internet for this issue I found that this was a common and recurring problem for scions (especially the spiral cable). Later I contacted Toyota directly to plead the case for making this a safety/warranty item I was told basically - tough luck - the car had more than 50, 000 miles and older than 5 years. I believe Toyota is wrong on this and because of the huge problems with air bags on their cars they should consider this a serious safety issue and cover it under warranty. As a side note - while driving with the air bag light on - my wife wanted to carry a big knife in the front seat so that we could get out if it malfunctioned!.

Airbags did not deploy, vehicle speed was 45 mph. The entire front end was damaged. Swerved to miss hitting a deer, spun out and hit an embankment. Point of impact was drivers side front and nothing, not one airbag deployed.

-the contact own a 2005 Toyota Scion Xa. The contact was driving 70 mph when her front wheel went off the road and as she steered her vehicle back on to the road she lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle rolled over four to six times and her air bag did not deploy. The contact had head injuries and whip lash. The driver was the only occupant of the vehicle and was wearing her the seat belt. The seat belt was never serviced. There is a police report if needed. The failure mileage was 42,500 updated 05/15/09 updated 05/18/09.

Driver airbag released gas and smoke. I was just driving down the road. No bumps, did not hit anything. Airbag did not deploy. Gas and smoke was so bad that I had to pull over and get out of the car for air. Dealership said nothing was wrong with airbag.

Airbag did not deploy during a head-on collision. My car was traveling at 40 mph when struck by a 1/2 ton pickup truck coming from the opposite direction. I sustained a severe neck strain(whip lash).