2016 GMC SIERRA 1500 — Complaint #1794227
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN filed February 11, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1794227 (ODI reference 11451601) concerns a 2016 GMC SIERRA 1500 and was filed on February 11, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 10, 2022. The vehicle had 112,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:side/window:curtain, 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 GMC SIERRA 1500 cohort independently describe similar air bags:side/window:curtain 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 2016 GMC SIERRA 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 GMC Sierra 1500. The contact stated that while her husband was driving at an undisclosed speed, there was an abnormally loud sound inside the cabin of the vehicle. The contact stated that the front and rear driverâs and passengerâs side air bags had inadvertently deployed without being involved in a crash. The vehicle loss motive power and stalled. The driver and the contactâs son who was sitting in the front passengerâs seat were struck on the head with the air bags however, there were no injuries. Medical attention was not needed. No police report was filed. There were no warning lights illuminated on the vehicle. The vehicle was restarted after several minutes and driven back to the residence. The vehicle was then taken to the dealer to be diagnosed; however, the mechanic was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 112,000. THE C
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1794227 |
| ODI Number | 11451601 |
| Date Filed | February 11, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 10, 2022 |
| VIN | 3GTU2NEC6GG |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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