2006 Pontiac Torrent Air bags Problems
- Complaints
- 10about this part
- Share
- 4%of 240 total for the year
- Median mileage
- 115,000miles
- Trend
- Not enough dataFewer than 15 complaints, too few for a reliable trend.
NHTSA recorded 10 complaints about the air bags of the 2006 Pontiac Torrent, 4% of the 240 complaints for this model year. Where a mileage was given, the median is 115,000 miles. 7 of these say a crash was involved, according to the filers.
Fewer than 15 complaints name this part, so treat the figures as a rough indication only.
Example complaints
Selected from NHTSA records; personal details are removed. They are consumer reports, not findings.
“My daughter lost control of the vehicle on the evening of 11/9/16 in the rain in an s curve, sliding into and hitting a tree. The accident was significant enough for the car to be totaled; however, the air bags did not deploy for her nor the passenger. They both sustained some injuries to the head due to the air bags not deploying. My concern is to report the defect. There is no recall for my VIN.”
NHTSA complaint #10925561, filed 2016-11, 210,000 miles“I was in heavy traffic, the car in front of me stopped suddenly and I hit her from behind. My front end has a lot of damage, to the point that my radiator was leaking fluid. I am unsure how fast we were traveling, I will say around 30 MPH. My air bag did not deploy.”
NHTSA complaint #10761856, filed 2015-09, 136,534 miles“After swerving to miss a dump truck who slammed on their brakes, my vehicle went off the road, through the median, crossed both north bound lanes of traffic (miraculously not hitting another vehicle) and slammed head first into the guardrail. Thankfully I did not get badly hurt (just rash burn from my seatbelt and whiplash) but I was very surprised, and very concerned, that my air bags did not deploy. I had to have hit the guardrail going at least 50 or 60 MPH. …”
NHTSA complaint #10640280, filed 2014-09, 210,000 miles“On christmas eve of 2013 at about 5:45pm going west on 7miles rd going into the left turning lane beginning to proceed to light a van came through the traffic two lanes over from right came at angle from mobile gastation cutting through traffic he like met almost head-on hit the front of truck and continued making his left going east on 7miles rd clearly hit and run me and three other were hurt and I noticed the airbags did not deploy in the owners manual for that truck states that the airbags should have deployed from the impact range 11 to17 MPH I contact acted general motors they checked…”
NHTSA complaint #10573903, filed 2014-03, 172,450 miles“I parked our car in front of our house on saturday afternoon and when I went to get in it on sunday morning the whole inside with covered in yellow dust. The glove compartment was open but the dash was intact. I called the police dept and along with the haz mat team from the fire department they determined that is was the air bag and somehow it exploded and ripped open within the dash causing all the dust that was inside of it to come out through the vents and into the interior of the car. My entire car all the way to the back windows is covered by this powder. …”
NHTSA complaint #10472774, filed 2012-08, 115,000 milesAir bags: other model years
Other parts of the 2006 Pontiac Torrent
89 complaintsElectrical system
63 complaintsEngine
29 complaintsSteering
29 complaintsEngine cooling
21 complaintsBrakes
17 complaintsFuel system
13 complaintsSeats
12 complaintsBody and structure
11 complaintsVehicle speed control
11 complaintsSuspension
10 complaintsElectronic stability control
9 complaints
← All problems reported for the 2006 Pontiac Torrent
About this data. Data from NHTSA (ODI) complaints, recalls, TSBs and investigations, updated Oct 31, 2026. Complaints are unverified consumer reports and may be duplicated or inaccurate.
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