Chevrolet Trax: 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. The inflator, the airbag, and related hardware are all part of the airbag module.
For airbag locations, see Where Are the Airbags? (Mexico) or Where Are the Airbags? (U.S.
and Canada).
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, if equipped, 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? (Mexico) or When Should an Airbag Inflate? (U.S. and Canada).
Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to safety belts.
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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 le
Passenger Sensing System (U.S. and Canada)
The vehicle has a passenger
sensing system for the front
outboard passenger position. The
passenger airbag status indicator
will light on the instrument panel
when the vehicle is started.
United Sta
If the On Indicator Is Lit for a
Child Restraint
The passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the front
outboard passenger frontal airbag
and knee airbag if the system
determines that an infant is present
in a child restraint. If a child res
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Clutch pedal position sensor learn
NOTE:
The clutch pedal position (CPP) sensor learn procedure is required when
the
following service procedures have been performed regardless of whether DTC
P080A is set:
An engine control module (ECM) replacement
A CPP sensor replacement
Any repairs which affect the CPP sensor relationship
Powertrain diagnostic trouble code (dtc) type definitions (luv)
Emissions Related DTCs
Action Taken When the DTC Sets - Type A
The control module illuminates the malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) when
the diagnostic runs and fails.
The control module records the operating conditions at the time the
diagnostic fails. The control module
stores this informat
