18V024000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2009 PONTIAC VIBE
8 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 600 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns8
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints600
Complaints citing a crash26
Complaints citing a fire4
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.
Recall campaigns 6 of 8
17V006000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
16V340000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
15V689000
VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
If the sliding electrical contacts are not protected by lubricant, debris and moisture that get into the switch may cause a short circuit and the switch assembly may overheat and melt, increasing the risk of a fire.
14V168000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
If the FFC is damaged, connectivity to the driver's air bag module could be lost and the air bag deactivated. The failure of the driver's air bag to deploy in the event of a crash that typically necessitates deployment increases the risk of injury to the driver.
12V491000
VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
If the switch overheats, it may melt, possibly resulting in a fire.
What owners report most
- 352AIR BAGS
- 39VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 33STEERING
- 29ENGINE
- 19VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
- 16ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 9UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 9ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2009 PONTIAC VIBEs 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.