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Dealer, TSB's and Recalls
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Thatch
Dodge Dakota
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11/07/2003
15:38:29
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 Subject: revised air bag deployment
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This is exactly what happened...I was in a vacant parking lot and started to pull away. I turned the steering wheel to the left and bumped the cruise control button and the air bag deployed striking me in the throat and chest which knocked me out. 25 to 30 feet away was a light post. The truck hit the light post on the driver's side and totaled the truck. I don't understand why the air bag deployed. I also don't understand how this could have broken the front axle and did this much damage in such a short distance. Thank God the seatbelt worked...it left a nasty bruise, though. ADVICE?? It was a 5.2L 98 club cab sport. BE CAREFULL!! please advise/respond.
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slopehad
Dodge Dakota
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11/15/2003
07:28:21
|  RE: revised air bag deployment
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there was a recall for the 98's involving a bad clockspring in the steering column. the clockspring is a device that allows the wires in the steering wheel to remain connected as the steering wheel is turned, when the clockspring in the said model goes bad the airbag can be accidently deployed as what happened to you. Contact your local Dodge zone representative and demand that all the damage that happened to your truck be repaired by them. Afterall they had a recall for this very problem. I am willing to bet that your truck is on it's second owner and the original owner did not get it fixed when he got the recall notice, as I imagine that if you are the original owner you are smart enough to get it fixed as soon as you got the recall notice.
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