Buick Envista 2025 - What will You See after an Airbag Inflates

Buick Envista Owner Manual (GMNA-Localizing-U.S./Canada/Mexico-18181221) - 2025
50 Seats and Restraints
What Will You See after an Airbag
I
nflates?
After frontal and seat-mounted side impact
airbags inflate, they quickly deflate, so quickly
that some people may not even realize the
airbags inflated. Roof-rail airbags may still be at
least partially inflated for some time after they
inflate. Some components of the airbag module
may be hot for several minutes. For location of
the airbags, see Where Are the Airbags? 347.
The parts of the airbag that come into contact
with you may be warm, but not too hot to
touch. There may be some smoke and dust
coming from the vents in the deflated airbags.
Airbag inflation does not prevent people from
leaving the vehicle.
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When a
n airbag inflates, there may be dust
in the air. This dust could cause breathing
problems for people with ahistory of
asthma or other breathing trouble. To avoid
this, everyone in the vehicle should get
out as soon as it is safe to do so. If you
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Warning (Continued)
have breathing problems but cannot get
out of the vehicle after an airbag inflates,
then get fresh air by opening awindow
or adoor. If you experience breathing
problems following an airbag deployment,
you should seek medical attention.
The vehicle has afeature that may
a
utomatically unlock the doors, turn on the
interior lamps and hazard warning flashers,
and shut off the fuel system after the airbags
inflate. The feature may also activate, without
airbag inflation, after an event that exceeds
apredetermined threshold. After turning the
vehicle off and then on again, the fuel system
will return to normal operation; the doors can
be locked, the interior lamps can be turned off,
and the hazard warning flashers can be turned
off using the controls for those features. If any
of these systems are damaged in the crash they
may not operate as normal.
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arning
A crash severe enough to inflate the
a
irbags may have also damaged important
functions in the vehicle, such as the fuel
system, brake and steering systems, etc.
Even if the vehicle appears to be drivable
after amoderate crash, there may be
concealed damage that could make it
difficult to safely operate the vehicle.
Use caution if you should attempt to restart
the engine after acrash has occurred.
In many crashes severe enough to inflate
t
he airbag, windshields are broken by vehicle
deformation. Additional windshield breakage
may also occur from the front outboard
passenger airbag.
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Airbags are designed to inflate only once.
After an airbag inflates, you will need
some new parts for the airbag system. If
you do not get them, the airbag system
will not be there to help protect you in
another crash. Anew system will include
airbag modules and possibly other parts.
The service manual for the vehicle covers
the need to replace other parts.