10.0
really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 2 / 0
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 6 / 0
- Average Mileage:
- 72,250 miles
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The contact owns a 1998 Buick Skylark. The contact stated that while driving 60 mph, the front drivers side air bags deployed. No crash occurred and no injuries were reported. Neither the manufacturer, nor the dealer were made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 193,000.
- Pequot Lakes, MN, USA
I was injured when the airbag of a 1998 Buick Skylark (N body) deployed when I started the vehicle. There was no impact, in fact the vehicle was sitting in a building and not even in motion. I sustained a brain shear injury and I am still recovering. I know of two other incidents where this occurred in N body GM vehicles. General Motors paid for the repair of the vehicle but has not contacted me in regard to my injuries or lost wages.(I was out of work 2 months and recently returned on a limited basis. General Motors blames the deployment on moisture on the floor of the vehicle. I live in western New York where with our weather it is impossible not to have moisture on the floor. One of the other people who experienced a deployment is also injured. Please look in to this matter as the potential for injury is very great. Thanks mike hall ps I have the parts from the deployment that I was involved in.
- Hamburg, NY, USA
During collision no deployment of airbags caused injury to passengers.
- Westlake, OH, USA
- Lakeland, FL, USA