Pontiac Vibe. Published by Transport Canada as 2014145 on 22 April 2014. System: Airbag.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, electrical circuitry in the steering wheel assembly may become damaged. As a result, the driver's airbag may not function as intended, causing the instrument panel airbag warning lamp to illuminate. Failure of the driver's airbag to deploy during a crash (where deployment is warranted) could …
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Pontiac VIBE in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Pontiac VIBE is named on 4 American notices, 1 European and 1 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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The European register
The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2014145
- Recall date
- 22 April 2014
- Make
- Pontiac
- Models
- Vibe
- Model years
- 2009 to 2010
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Recalls Audit
- Vehicles affected
- 26,690
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, electrical circuitry in the steering wheel assembly may become damaged. As a result, the driver's airbag may not function as intended, causing the instrument panel airbag warning lamp to illuminate. Failure of the driver's airbag to deploy during a crash (where deployment is warranted) could increase the risk of injury to the seat occupant. Correction: Dealers will replace the spiral cable assembly.
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 2014145.
Pontiac elsewhere in this register
Pontiac is named on 332 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2014126 · 10 April 2014 · Ion, Cobalt, Pursuit · Other
- 2014104 · 1 April 2014 · Malibu, Malibu Maxx, Ion · Steering
- 2014160 · 1 May 2014 · Malibu Maxx, Malibu, G6 · Powertrain
- 2014101 · 31 March 2014 · G5, HHR, Solstice · Other
- 2014173 · 16 May 2014 · Malibu, Malibu Maxx, G6 · Electrical
- 2014185 · 22 May 2014 · Aveo, G3 Wave, Wave · Electrical
- 2014060 · 26 February 2014 · Ion, Solstice, HHR · Electrical
- 2014038 · 10 February 2014 · Cobalt, Pursuit, G5 · Electrical
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2014124 · 9 April 2014 · Rav4, Yaris, Highlander · Airbag
- 2014116 · 7 April 2014 · Odyssey · Airbag
- 2014164 · 7 May 2014 · Escape, C-Max · Airbag
- 2014103 · 31 March 2014 · F-350 Chassis Cab, F-250 Super Duty, E450 Cutaway Chassis Cab · Airbag
- 2014093 · 25 March 2014 · Leaf, NV200, Sentra · Airbag
- 2014177 · 20 May 2014 · Tucson · Airbag
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Pontiac: 332 in the register, and 591 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2014.
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