1. Chevrolet Colorado
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Chevrolet Colorado Air Bags Problems

128
Owner complaint records in our dataset
14
Years with records
2004–2019
Stored years

Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.

Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.

Among these 128 stored complaint records:

  • 28 indicate a crash
  • 19 indicate injury
  • 1 indicate fire
  • 4 indicate a death

Complaints by year

What appears in the records

  • airbag light · 24 records
  • seat belt · 23 records
  • warning light · 23 records
  • failure mileage · 23 records
  • notified failure · 15 records
  • rear door · 13 records

Mileage in stored records

BandRecords
60–100k mi30
30–60k mi29
100–150k mi21
1–30k mi20
150–400k mi13

Complaint evidence

Latest stored owner-submitted records. Open a year for the full list.

  • January 2, 2020 · 162,000 miles

    Air Bags

    The airbags were deactivated due to the wires being damaged through normal use of the extended cab rear door. A normal mechanic shop wouldn't fix it, because it was a safety issue, so took the truck to the chevrolet dealer, who confirmed the problem, and had to replace the wiring harness in that door.

    ODI 11297096

    2004 records in this system

  • October 19, 2019 · 158,974 miles

    Air Bags · Electrical System · Electronic Stability Control

    During an out of town trip, my electric glitch, from the dashboard to the navigation as if were going to shut down! Now i'm in a parking lot and the dash is telling me to service the airbag.

    ODI 11269517

    2015 records in this system

  • October 1, 2019 · 181,500 miles

    Air Bags

    Air bag lite keeps coming on and off while driving it started 10/1/2019

    ODI 11265615

    2006 records in this system

  • August 16, 2019 · 189,877 miles

    Air Bags

    Was driving my 2005 chevy colorado and very tired veered off the county road, hit a utility pole on left side front and truck rolled over air bags never deployed

    Crash reported · 1 death

    ODI 11289728

    2005 records in this system

  • July 8, 2019 · 2,000 miles

    Air Bags · Body

    I had a car accident head on and my air bag did not go off i'm at the hospital but wonder why they did not go off vehicle was in motion going forty miles a hour rear end truck and air bag did not go off m59 and airport rd waterford mi

    Crash reported · 1 injury

    ODI 11230191

    2019 records in this system

  • February 21, 2019

    Air Bags

    Chevrolet montebello delearship in california refused to do any work on our 2018 chevrolet colorado. We received a letter about a recall on the airbags of the truck and we took the truck in due to some issues on the truck and the recall. Because they felt the vehicle was tampered with they denied to do any work on the truck even the recall of the airbags!!!!! The service technician we were working with said they…

    ODI 11181579

    2018 records in this system

  • January 20, 2019 · 42,100 miles

    Air Bags

    Side certain airbags deployed for no reason on mild off-road trail going about 20mph.

    ODI 11171093

    2016 records in this system

  • November 11, 2018 · 40,000 miles

    Air Bags

    Bad airbag sensor in back of front bumper. Was told if not replaced, airbags would not deploy. Not covered under warranty and no recall found.

    ODI 11164910

    2016 records in this system