10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
6 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
5 / 0
Average Mileage:
30,000 miles

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problem #10

Dec 232013

S-10 Pickup

  • 220,000 miles
Vehical pulled out in front of me I hit him running 55 mph my safety bags did not deploy resulting in severe seatbelt and sterring wheel damage to my body and terible neck pain and back pain resulting from lack of air bagneglect

- Georgetown, ., LA, USA

problem #9

Oct 242004

S-10 Pickup 4-cyl

  • Manual transmission
  • 80,000 miles
Air bag light continuously on, #5 fuse blows continuously in fuse block, running lights and dashboard lights dim. Have taken to dealership, diagnostics ran everything ok according to dealership.

- Reidsville, NC, USA

problem #8

Jul 032003

(reported on)

S-10 Pickup

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles
Consumer called complaining about having problems with the air bags not deploying. This wasthe second time that the vehicle has had a collision, and the air bags did not deploy.

- Port Allen, LA, USA

problem #7

Mar 272001

S-10 Pickup

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles
While traveling on highway, vehicle dropped off the pavement into the gravels causing vehicle to turn sideways back onto the pavement and hitting an enbankment on the other side of the road and then turning the vehicle on its side onto the highway in which air bag did not deploy.

- Tazewell, TN, USA

problem #6

Oct 051999

S-10 Pickup

  • miles
Driver was driven off the road while traveling 60 mph and into a ditch, air bag light came on no deployment of air bag, consumer took vehicle to dealer and was told he didn't hit hard enough or at the right angle, during front end collision the drivers side air bag did not deploy, the passenger shoulder harness failed and caused the passenger to be thrown thourghout the vehicle causing 3 herniated disc. Nlm

- Carrollton, GA, USA

problem #5

Nov 241999

S-10 Pickup

  • miles
No deployment of air bag during collision with horse, consumer injured (cuts, bruises and broken bone in the hand). Yh (attorney for client)

- Nicholasville, KY, USA

problem #4

Sep 041998

S-10 Pickup

  • miles
Air bag did not inflate during head on collision.

- Chowchilla, CA, USA

problem #3

Jan 201999

S-10 Pickup

  • miles
No deployment of air bag during vehicle collision.

- Jackson, MS, USA

problem #2

Aug 211998

S-10 Pickup

  • miles
Air bags did not deploy during collision.

- Middleburg, FL, USA

problem #1

Dec 181996

S-10 Pickup

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles
Frontal collisions on two occasions and no deployment of air bags.

- Clinton, MS, USA