When do airbags go off?
02-21-2008, 10:47 AM
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Haha, GM airbags suck. You'll be lucky if they deploy when you need them. My sister and brother in law were in a accident and went head first into a ditch and flipped it in a 2001 tahoe . No air bags went off. The front end was folded in like a pancake. So if you do need them don't count on them workin.
02-21-2008, 11:43 AM
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There are a few parameters that must be met....certain speed, rate of decel, as well as where the impact is (side airbags = side impact, etc.) A lady hit me in a Chrysler about 12 years ago...she pulled out of a gas station and t-boned the passenger side of the car I was driving...I watched her airbag deploy and knock her *** out like Mike Tyson.
02-21-2008, 01:22 PM
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There are a few parameters that must be met....certain speed, rate of decel, as well as where the impact is (side airbags = side impact, etc.) A lady hit me in a Chrysler about 12 years ago...she pulled out of a gas station and t-boned the passenger side of the car I was driving...I watched her airbag deploy and knock her *** out like Mike Tyson.
women drivers... 
but I crashed my 95 Bonneville 50mph.. T-boned a girl 2 months older than me..(what a coincidence!) and she was at fault. Mine went off. But roll overs they arent supposed to due to they could contribute to a decapitation.
02-21-2008, 01:32 PM
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Had an offset r/f impact in my girls Toyota Matrix(same as a Vibe) No airbag Deployment and I was in the pass. seat, hit my head on the r/f window and a-pillar with a seatbelt on. 9k in damage also the colarado that hit us no airbag, we were going about 35 and he pulled out of a parking lot and my girl swerved but couldn't miss him. Not just a GM thing as the Vibe/Matrix are made by Toyota.
