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 Compartment Replacement
Instrument Panel Compartment Replacement
Callout
Component Name
Preliminary Procedure
Remove the right instrument panel upper trim panel. Refer to Instrument
Panel Upper Trim Panel Replacement - Right Side.
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Turbocharger Removal
Special Tool
EN-49942 Holding Wrench
For equivalent regional tools, refer to Special Tools.
Install the EN-49942 holding wrench (2) to the turbocharger coolant
feed pipe. Guide a ratchet wrench (1) along with an extension through EN-49942
holding wrench to the turbo ...
Transmission Control Lever Boot Replacement
Transmission Control Lever Boot Replacement
Callout
Component Name
Preliminary Procedure
Remove the front floor console. Refer to Front
Floor Console Replacement.
1
Shift Control Lever Knob Cove ...
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