Recall · 20V039000
General Motors recalled the PONTIAC Vibe over air bags
554
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
January 23, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2003-2004 Pontiac Vibe vehicles equipped with a front passenger air bag assembly replaced under a prior recall. The replacement air bag may not unfold as designed during inflation in high temperature conditions, possibly resulting in the air bag not inflating properly.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that does not inflate properly increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and replace the passenger air bag module, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began February 19, 2020. Owners may contact Pontiac customer service at 1-800-762-2737. GM's number for this recall is N192278940.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| PontiacVibe | 2003 to 2004 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 554 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 52% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2003 to 2004, so the oldest vehicles on it were 17 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Pontiac vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 27 times before this, most recently in August 2019 as 19V627000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 563 complaints with NHTSA, 547 of them before this campaign was filed. 170 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2002, 17 years before this filing.
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by General Motors LLC with NHTSA on January 23, 2020 as campaign 20V039000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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