1999 Chevrolet Tahoe Air bags Problems

“While driving my 99 Tahoe down a 4 lane road, a drunk had pulled out infront of me. I had slammed on my brakes and swerved to avoid him but still hit him pretty hard in his rear quarter panel. As a result of the accident, I had suffered a double hematoma to my brain and had brain surgery to stay alive. My complaint with my Tahoe is 1) my airbag in my steering wheel did not deploy. I think if it did, my injury would have been avoided. 2) I question the stopping ability if my anti dive front brakes. …”

“During a front end collision while driving at 55 MPH front air bags did not deploy. Three passengers sustained minor injuries. Consumer had the vehicle towed to dealership for inspection.”

“The contact owns a 1999 Chevrolet Tahoe. While driving 20 MPH, the passenger and driver side air bags deployed without warning or impact. There were no injuries. The contact was able to resume driving. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 184,000.”

“This was a very heavy front end collision. The visual dammage est. Is 10,000 dollars and still rising they do not have the internal damage est. I called GM and filed a formal complaint. They told me that they were very busy and did not have time to investigate this failure. They also told me that this would cost the to much money to do an investigation. The rep from GM told me that they could tell if the wreck was bad enough by the description of the wreck over the phone with out even seeing the wreck. …”

“The contact owns a 1999 Chevrolet Tahoe. The contact was driving approximately 15 to 20 MPH on normal road conditions and unexpectedly, the opposing vehicle crashed into the front end of the vehicle which resulted in a head on collision. The police and ambulance were called to the scene. The contact sustained severe injuries. The air bag failed to deploy with the massive level of impact. The vehicle was completely destroyed. The vehicle was towed to a collision center. The contact had concern of the safety risk involved. The failure mileage was 141,000.”