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NHTSA owner reports · September 18, 2026 snapshot.

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Air Bags complaints

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Mileage unknown · Mar 22, 2003

Air BagsElectrical System

1991 CORSICA IGNITION WILL NOT TURN BACK SO I CAN GET KEYS OUT OF THE IGNITION, I HAD MY CAR WORKED ON IN A DEALERSHIP 3 TIMES AND IT COST ME OVER $300.00, IT IS DOING THE SAME AGAIN AND ALSO IN 2002 ON A SNOWY ROAD I WENT INTO A DITCH AND MY AIR BAG NEVER CAME OUT.*JB

NHTSA ODI #10010886

Mileage unknown · Aug 17, 1998

Air Bags

WHILE DRIVING NOTICED THAT SMOKE WAS COMING FROM THE STEERING WHEEL. AFTERWARDS NOTICED THAT THE AIRBAG SENSOR LIGHT WAS ON. THE DEALER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. *AK

NHTSA ODI #826839

Mileage unknown · Feb 9, 1998

Air BagsCrashInjury

VIOLENT DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIR BAG UPON IMPACT DUE TO DRIVER BEING INCAPACITATED EITHER UNCONSCIOUS OR STUNED. VEHICLE LANDED UP IN STEEP DITCH. DRIVER SUFFERED ABRASIONS TO NECK/FACE AND UPPER THIGHS. VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. DUP 817362, POSTED ON 03-NOV-98. *AK

NHTSA ODI #524198

Mileage unknown · Dec 12, 1997

Air BagsCrashInjury

VIOLENT DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIR BAG, CAUSING VEHICLE TO LOSE CONTROL/LAND UP IN STEEP DITCH. DRIVER SUFFERED ABRASIONS TO FACE/NECK AND UPPER THIGH. ALSO, SEVERE DAMAGE TO LEFT HAND SID EOF VEHICLE. *AK

NHTSA ODI #524181

Mileage unknown · Oct 21, 1997

Air BagsCrashInjury

OWNER'S SON WAS DRIVING CAR. WHILE DRIVING THE AIR BAG DEPLOYED FOR NO REASON. DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF THE CAR, CAUSING CAR TO FALL INTO A DITCH (TOTALLING THE WHOLE CAR.) *AK

NHTSA ODI #817362

Mileage unknown · Sep 8, 1997

Air BagsCrashInjury

NO DEPLOYMENT OF AIRBAG IN ACCIDENT, CAUSING INJURY.

NHTSA ODI #521759

Mileage unknown · Jul 21, 1997

Air Bags

WHILE DRIVING THE AIR BAG LIGHT COMES ON. THIS IS AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM. OWNER HAS MADE APPOINTMENT TO GO TO DEALER. OWNER IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROBLEM. *AK

NHTSA ODI #814727

Mileage unknown · Jun 30, 1997

Air BagsCrashInjury

AIR BAG: DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35MPH ,FELL ASLEEP AT WHEEL AND STRUCK A PARKED CAR HEAD-ON AND THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK THE PARKED VEHICLE THAT WAS STRUCK WAS ALSO A CHEVY CORSICA 1995 AND THE AIR BAG IN THAT VEHICLE DID NOT DEPLOY. *YH

NHTSA ODI #813631

Mileage unknown · May 15, 1997

Air BagsCrashInjury

WHILE DRIVING, AIRBAG INADVERTENTLY DEPLOYED, DRIVER WAS TEMPORARILY KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS, WHEN DRIVER RECOVERED VEHICLE WAS ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF ROAD AND BROADSIDED ANOTHER MOVING VEHICLE, THE FIRST VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION. *AK

NHTSA ODI #812279

Mileage unknown · Apr 21, 1997

Air BagsCrashFire

AIR BAGS: DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 20MPH AND REARENED VEHICLE IN FRONT, DRIVER'S AIR BAG DEPLOYED WITH EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF FORCE. STRONG FUMES ENGULFED VEHICLE, MUCH SMOKE WAS EVIDENT, VEHICLE WAS ON FIRE. *AK

NHTSA ODI #811395

Official recalls

91V083000 · Steering: Steering Wheel/handle Bar

Jun 10, 1991

NUT ATTACHING STEERING WHEEL MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PROPERLY TIGHTENED DURING INSTALLATION.

Consequence & remedy

Consequence: THIS COULD ALLOW STEERING WHEEL TO SEPARATE FROM STEERINGCOLUMN; LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL AND A CRASH COULD OCCUR WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.

Remedy: TIGHTEN THE NUT TO THE PROPER TORQUE AS NECESSARY.

Model-level recall history does not show whether a particular VIN is affected or has received a repair. Check a VIN with NHTSA ↗

NHTSA investigations

DP96014 · Defective Air Bag Crash Sensor

Opened Nov 14, 1996 · No close date supplied

Status: open (inferred from source dates) · Air Bags:frontal:sensor/control MODULE-INACTIVE

CFAS SENT A FOLLOW-UP LETTER ON DECEMBER 12, 1996, TO CHANGE THE INTENT OF THE PETITION TO AIRBAG AGGRESSIVITY AND DEPLOYMENT VARIABILITY.NHTSA RECEIVED THE LETTER ON 12/12/96; ACCORDINGLY, THE PETITION DUE DAY WAS CHANGED TO APRIL 12, 1997.CFAS PETITIONED THE AGENCY TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE AIRBAG CRASH SENSOR AND/OR DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS FOR THE 1991-92 CHEVROLET CORSICA/BERETTA, 1990-92 FORD TAURUS, AND 1994-96 CHRYSLER MINIVANS ARE DEFECTIVE.CFAS ALLEGE THAT INFORMATION ON LOW SPEED CRASHES HERE OCCUPANTS HAVE SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES SUGGESTS [THAT THE ABOVE VEHICLES] HAVE DEFECTIVE AIRBAG CRASH SENSOR AND/OR DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS.