2001 Saturn LS recall: airbag
⚠️ What's wrong
Vehicle description: passenger vehicles equipped with a side impact air bag system. The air bag system has a lower side impact safing sensor threshold than specified. Because of this reduced threshold, there could be an inadvertent deployment of the side head curtain air bag with severe slamming of the door.
💥 The risk
This could cause injury to an occupant.
🔧 The fix
Dealers will replace the inflatable restraint sensing and diagnostic module assembly.
Is the fix free? Yes. Safety recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer under federal law, including parts and labor. (Vehicles more than 15 years old when the recall was announced can be excluded, but most manufacturers still fix them.)
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V235000
- Manufacturer recall #
- 00071
- Manufacturer
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
- Vehicles affected
- 168
- Component
- AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
- NHTSA hotline
- 1-888-327-4236
- Owner letters mailed
- Aug 23, 2000
- Built
- Jul 1, 2000 – Aug 31, 2000
- Recall started by
- MFR
- Notes
- No vehicles have been sold to customers.