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9. Customer Information and Reporting Safety Defects
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Frontal offset impact to the vehicle
may not provide the stopping force
necessary for air bag deployment.

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Rear-ending or running under a truck's
tail gate may not provide the stopping
force necessary for air bag deployment.

Non-activation of front air bags

Front air bags will not normally inflate in
the following cases:

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Collision from the rear.

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Impact to the side, but it may deploy
the side air bags.

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Vehicle roll-over, may deploy the side
air bags but not the front air bags.

Side air bag activation

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The severity of impact above the designed
threshold level to one side of the vehicle
(driver or passenger side areas) will cause
a side air bag on that side to inflate, but it
will not normally deploy the front air
bags.

Limitations to side air bag activation

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Depending on the severity of impact, a
side air bag may not inflate in the
following cases:

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Frontal offset impact may not provide
enough side impact to deploy the side
air bags.

Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

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Some models.

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