Oldsmobile Achieva, Skylark. Published by Transport Canada as 1996177 on 7 November 1996. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says During deployment of the passenger air bag, the air bag fabric may snag on a reinforcement inside the instrument panel, causing the expanding bag to lift the instrument panel and then deploy under the instrument panel pad instead of through the door in the instrument panel. the reinforcement may also fracture. in a …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1996177
- Recall date
- 7 November 1996
- Make
- Oldsmobile, Buick
- Models
- Achieva, Skylark
- Model years
- 1996
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 2,248
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
DURING DEPLOYMENT OF THE PASSENGER AIR BAG, THE AIR BAG FABRIC MAY SNAG ON A REINFORCEMENT INSIDE THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, CAUSING THE EXPANDING BAG TO LIFT THE INSTRUMENT PANEL AND THEN DEPLOY UNDER THE INSTRUMENT PANEL PAD INSTEAD OF THROUGH THE DOOR IN THE INSTRUMENT PANEL. THE REINFORCEMENT MAY ALSO FRACTURE. IN A CRASH, THE FRONT SEAT PASSENGER COULD RECEIVE MORE SEVERE INJURIES IF HE OR SHE CONTACTS A BROKEN REINFORCEMENT OR IF THE SNAGGING AFFECTS THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BAG.
CORRECTION: DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE INSTRUMENT PANEL PADS AND, IF NECESSARY, INSTALL A PLASTIC EDGE PROTECTOR TO THE INSTRUMENT PANEL PAD REINFORCEMENT. ON CERTAIN EARLY PRODUCTION VEHICLES, THE INSTRUMENT PANEL PAD WILL BE REPLACED.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1996177.
Oldsmobile elsewhere in this register
Oldsmobile is named on 204 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1996208 · 30 December 1996 · Sunfire, Achieva, Cavalier · Lights And Instruments
- 1996099 · 11 July 1996 · Lesabre, Park Avenue, Ninety-Eight · Engine
- 1997039 · 18 February 1997 · Regal, Cutlass Supreme, Grand Prix · Visual System
- 1997078 · 14 April 1997 · Grand Am, Skylark, Achieva · Electrical
- 1997090 · 23 April 1997 · Regal, Cutlass Supreme, Lumina Car · Seats And Restraints
- 1997217 · 28 November 1997 · Blazer, Bravada, Sonoma · Brakes
- 1995195 · 30 October 1995 · Park Avenue, Ninety-Eight, Eighty-Eight · Lights And Instruments
- 1997219 · 11 December 1997 · Caprice, Custom Cruiser, Roadmaster · Brakes
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1996164 · 11 October 1996 · Rodeo · Seats And Restraints
- 1996157 · 3 October 1996 · Altima · Seats And Restraints
- 1996204 · 13 December 1996 · Motorhome · Seats And Restraints
- 1996153 · 30 September 1996 · Probe · Seats And Restraints
- 1996138 · 13 September 1996 · Pathfinder, D21 Pick Up · Seats And Restraints
- 1996127 · 23 August 1996 · Coupe · Seats And Restraints
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on an Oldsmobile: 204 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1996.
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