Chevrolet Sonic Owner's Manual: How Does an Airbag Restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal or near frontal collisions, even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel or the instrument panel. In moderate to severe side collisions, even belted occupants can contact the inside of the vehicle.
Airbags supplement the protection provided by safety belts by distributing the force of the impact more evenly over the occupant's body.
Rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help contain the head and chest of occupants in the outboard seating positions in the first and second rows. The rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help reduce the risk of full or partial ejection in rollover events, although no system can prevent all such ejections.
But airbags would not help in many types of collisions, primarily because the occupant's motion is not toward those airbags. See When Should an Airbag Inflate?.
Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to safety belts.
What Makes an Airbag Inflate?
In a deployment event, the sensing system sends an electrical signal triggering
a release of gas from the inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the airbag causing
the bag to break out of the cover ...
What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?
After the frontal airbags and seat-mounted side impact airbags inflate, they
quickly deflate, so quickly that some people may not even realize an airbag inflated.
Roof-rail airbags may still be at ...
Other materials:
Instrument Panel Fuse Block Access Hole Cover Replacement (With AAL)
Instrument Panel Fuse Block Access Hole Cover Replacement
Callout
Component Name
1
Instrument Panel Fuse Block Access Hole Cover
Procedure
Grasp the lower edge of the fuse block cover and pull outward disengaging ...
Air Conditioning (AC) Refrigerant Filter Replacement
Special Tools
GE 39400-A Halogen Leak Detector
For equivalent regional tools, refer to Special Tools.
Removal Procedure
Recover the refrigerant. Refer to Refrigerant Recovery and Recharging.
Remove the air conditioning condenser. Refer to Air Conditioning Condenser
Repl ...
Drive Range, First Gear (Gen 2)
As the vehicle speed increases, the transmission control module (TCM) receives
input signals from the automatic transmission input and output speed sensors, throttle
position sensor and other vehicle sensors to determine the precise moment to de-energize
or ?urn OFF?the shift solenoid, and to ...
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