Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
EA21002
Still open engineering analysis · opened September 17, 2021 · the air bags
NHTSA safety record
Pontiac
Every complaint, recall and defect investigation on file for a Pontiac, model year 2010.
2
Vehicles
330
Complaints
134
Recalls
1
Fires
0
Deaths
2Pontiac year and model combinations have enough on file to be worth a page here, and between them their owners have filed 330 safety complaints with NHTSA. More of those name the steering than any other system: 177 of them. The single most complained-about is the 2010 G6, with 272.
NHTSA holds 134 recall campaigns naming Pontiac vehicles, across every model year the agency records rather than only the ones shown here. 1 defect investigation into these vehicles is open and unresolved.
Most complained-about Pontiac models
Complaints for every published model year of each model added together. A model that sold in larger numbers collects more complaints, and nothing here divides by sales because NHTSA does not publish them.
What goes wrong on a Pontiac
The systems named most often across every Pontiac complaint on file. One complaint can name more than one system, so these add up to more than the complaint total. "Unknown or other" is excluded: it is what the intake form records when an owner cannot place the failure.
- STEERING 177
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 62
- ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) 58
- AIR BAGS 49
- EXTERIOR LIGHTING 37
Open investigations (1)
NHTSA has decided a pattern is worth examining and has not closed the file. A preliminary evaluation is often closed with no action; an engineering analysis is the stage that usually precedes a recall.
Most recent Pontiac recalls
The newest campaigns naming a Pontiac, by the date the manufacturer's defect report reached NHTSA. Each one covers a build range, which may be narrower than the model years listed.
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
20V039000 · January 23, 2020
An air bag that does not inflate properly increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
General Motors LLC · up to 554 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
19V627000 · August 28, 2019
An improperly inflated air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 229,460 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
18V883000 · December 12, 2018
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 168,993 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
18V025000 · January 9, 2018
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 116,126 vehicles
Pages 2010 Vibe
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
18V024000 · January 9, 2018
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 628,018 vehicles
Pages 2010 Vibe
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION
17V061000 · January 26, 2017
In the event of a crash, if the front passenger air bag does not deploy as intended, the front passenger has an increased risk of injury.
General Motors LLC · up to 91,007 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
17V006000 · January 9, 2017
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 577,875 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
16V340000 · May 23, 2016
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 1,754,517 vehicles
Pages 2010 Vibe
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
16V127000 · March 3, 2016
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants potentially resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 147,242 vehicles
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
16V128000 · March 2, 2016
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants potentially resulting in serious injury or death.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing · up to 71,163 vehicles
Every manufacturer's latest recalls, or check a single car with the VIN lookup.
Every Pontiac page on this site
2 vehicles across 2 models, newest model year first.
Built from NHTSA's complaint file published August 20, 2026, its recall campaign API and its defect investigation file. A complaint is one owner's unverified account, not a finding of fault. How this is counted. · All makes
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Independent developer and analyst