AIR BAGS
If the front passenger air bag deploys with a child seat in the front passenger seat, it increases the risk of injury to the child.
12 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations, 1,018 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
If the front passenger air bag deploys with a child seat in the front passenger seat, it increases the risk of injury to the child.
Brake pads that remain partially engaged with the rotors may cause excessive brake heat that may result in a fire.
Brake pads that remain partially engaged with the rotors may cause excessive brake heat that may result in a fire.
If the module experiences an electrical short, the vehicle could stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
Brake pads that remain partially engaged with the rotors may cause excessive brake heat that may result in a fire.
In manufacturing mode, the vehicle's air bags will not deploy in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of occupant injury.
Two 2014 CHEVROLET IMPALAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.