2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA — Complaint #1111368
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE filed September 19, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1111368 (ODI reference 10637541) concerns a 2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA and was filed on September 19, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 18, 2006. The vehicle had 34,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:frontal:sensor/control module, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET IMPALA cohort independently describe similar air bags:frontal:sensor/control module failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAG INDICATOR CONTINUOUSLY ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL IN WARM WEATHER. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE AIR BAG MODULE NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTICE FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V355000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM); HOWEVER, THE PARTS NEEDED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE WERE NOT AVAILABLE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 34,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1111368 |
| ODI Number | 10637541 |
| Date Filed | September 19, 2014 |
| Failure Date | September 18, 2006 |
| VIN | 2G1WF52E259 |
Similar AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE Complaints for 2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHEVROLET IMPALA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAG LIGHT SPORADICALLY ILLUMINATED AND WOULD NOT DIM. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE
AIRBAG LIGHT KEEPS COMING ON. SENSOR IS BEING REPLACED, BUT NOW DEALERSHIP SAYS IT'S THE WIRING UNDER THE SEAT. THE COST TO REPAIR IS $550! THIS IS A GM CERTIFIED VEHICLE WARRANTY WITH 39,000 MILES
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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