Normal Motors has issued a recall for two,061 full-size and heavy-duty vehicles as a result of their headliner airbags can deploy with out an accident.
Recalled fashions embody crew cab, however not common cab or double cab variations of the:
The corporate tells federal security officers on the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration that airbag inflators “situated on the left- and right-side roof rails above the headliner could include a producing defect which will lead to inflator finish cap separation or inflator sidewall break up.” If that occurs, “compressed fuel will escape from the inflator, and the tip cap or different parts will be propelled into the automobile, probably inflicting an occupant damage.”
The inflators can rupture even in an empty automobile. GM says it is aware of of at the very least one inflator that “ruptured whereas the automobile was parked and unoccupied.”
Just like an Earlier Ram Recall
GM says it realized of an identical incident in one other producer’s automobiles utilizing airbag inflators from the identical provider. Paperwork filed with the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration doesn’t determine that producer. However the case sounds much like a 2021 recall involving some Ram pickups.
Sellers will change the roof rail airbag modules to repair the issue.
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