Buick PARKAVENUE 1994 Manual page 39

Where is the air bag?
The driver's air bag is in the middle of the steering
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 to inflate in moderate to severe
frontal or near-frontal crashes. The air bag will only
inflate if the velocity of the impact is above the designed
threshold level. When impacting straight into a wall that
does not move or deform, the threshold level for most
GM vehicles is between 9 and 15 mph (14 and 23
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 higher if the vehicle strikes an object such
as a parked car which will move and deform on impact.
The air bag is also not designed to inflate in rollovers,
side impacts, or rear impacts where the inflation would
provide no occupant protection benefit.
It is possible that in a crash, only one of the two air bags
in your Park Avenue will deploy. This is rare, but can
happen in a crash just severe enough to make an air bag
inflate.
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