Chevrolet 1993 Camaro Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 30)

Seats

and

Restraint Systems

The right-front passenger’s air bag is

located in the instrument panel on the

passenger’s side.

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When is an air bag expected to inflate?

The air bag

is

designed to inflate in

moderate to severe frontal or near-frontal

crashes. The air bag will only inflate if the

velocity of the impact is above the

designed threshold level. When impacting

straight into a wall that does not move or

deform, the threshold level for most

GM

vehicles is between

9

and

15

mph

(14

and

23

km/h).

However, this velocity

threshold depends on the vehicle design

and may be several miles-per-hour faster

or

slower.

In

addition, this threshold

velocity will be considerably higher if the

vehicle strikes an object such as a parked

car which will move and deform

on

impact. The

air

bag is also not designed

to

inflate in rollovers, side. impacts, or rear

impacts where the inflation would provide

no occupant protection benefit.

It is possible that in a crash, only one of

the two air bags in your Camaro will

deploy. This is rare, but can happen in a

crash just severe enough to make an air

bag inflate.

In any particular crash, the determination

of whether the

air

bag should have

inflated cannot be based solely on the

level of damage on the vehicle@).

Inflation is determined by the angle of the

impact and the vehicle’s deceleration, of

which vehicle damage is only one

indication. Repair cost is not a good

indicator of whether an air bag should

have deployed.

What makes an air bag inflate?

In a frontal or near-frontal impact of

sufficient severity, the air bag sensing

system detects that the vehicle is suddenly

stopping as a result of a crash. The

sensing sytem triggers a chemical reaction

of

the sodium azide sealed

in

the inflator,

The reaction produces nitrogen gas,

which inflates a cloth bag. The inflator,

cloth bag, and related hardware ‘are

all

part of the air bag inflator modules

packed inside the steering wheel and in

the instrument panel in front of the

passenger.

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