Airbags recalls

Frontal, side, curtain and knee airbags, along with the crash sensors and control modules that decide when to deploy them. Airbag defects are among the most frequently recalled systems in the United States.

302
Campaigns: 35
Manufacturers: 2
Urgent orders: 13
Years covered

Campaigns by year issued

Counts are of campaigns received by NHTSA in each calendar year. They are not normalised by how many vehicles were on the road, so a taller bar does not by itself mean the system became less reliable.

2014
8
2015
18
2016
34
2017
28
2018
23
2019
32
2020
17
2021
33
2022
23
2023
22
2024
28
2025
24
2026
12

Manufacturers most affected

By number of campaigns touching this system. Larger manufacturers naturally appear more often because they sell more vehicles and more nameplates.

Chevrolet38
GMC24
Ford23
Volkswagen23
Audi21
Toyota21
Ram18
BMW18
Jeep17
Hyundai13
Nissan12
Buick12

Recent airbags campaigns

Showing the 60 most recent of 302.

Method & limitations

Campaigns are grouped by the first segment of NHTSA's component path and mapped to this system through a published alias table. Counts reflect campaigns in the VerifyTheVehicle index, which covers a subset of all US vehicles, and are not defect rates — we hold no registration or sales denominator that would make a rate honest.

Systems by recall activity Methodology NHTSA source