1994 Buick Roadmaster Owner's Manual - Page 40

threshold level.When impacting straight intoa wall that or does not move deform, the threshold level for most GM vehicles is between and 15 mph (14 and 23 9 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 higherif the vehicle strikes an object such as a parked car which will move deform on impact. and The air bag is also not designed to inflate in rollovers, side impacts,or rear impacts where inflation would the provide no occupant protection benefit. It is possible that in a crash, one of the two air only bags in your Roadmaster will deploy. is rare, but This can happen in a crash severe enough to make an air just bag inflate. /.:. .i ...' Where is the air bag? The driver's air bag in the middleof the steering is wheel. The right-front passenger's air bag is located in the instrument panel on the passenger's side. When is an air bag expected to inflate? The air bag is designed inflate in moderate to severe to frontal or near-frontal crashes.The air bag will only inflate if the velocity of the impact is above the designed In any particular crash, the determinationwhether the of air bag should have inflated cannot based solely on be the levelof damage onthe.vehicle(s). Inflation is determined by the angle the impact and the vehicle's of deceleration, of which vehicle damage is only one indication. Repair cost is not a good indicator of whether an air bag should have deployed. 38