Airbag bulge, is this normal?

I’ve had my truck for about three weeks now (200ish miles on the odo) and this morning when I got in to go to work, I noticed a distinct bulge in the area where the driver’s side airbag is housed. I don’t remember this being there yesterday. Nothing happened that would cause this, and with all of the airbag recalls over the past few years I don’t know if I should worry. Is this something any of you have seen?

 

Yes

 

I thought the same thing when I first saw it too. Funny the little things we notice as time goes by. The rattle from the dash in cold weather had always been there also

 

Mine too. Laugh lines.

 

Sounds good - thanks for the reassurance.

 

I hate that fucking rattle, every day in the winter I get to listen to it till the dash warms up enough... maybe this year ill get around to fixing it.

 

Your truck is just happy to see you.

 

Most likely its where the dash meets the a pillar trim. Put a little piece of padding between them. Should fix it.

 

Yeah, I know where it is, its just been freezing cold here still. Hell, we had snow for the past 4 days. I need to pull off those parts this weekend to add some foam to where my front speakers are mounted in the dash.

 

Wow -- I was literally just going to post about this haha. I swapped out my emblem on my steering wheel and I guess I've been looking closer at my wheel and thought I bent the piece or something when putting the airbag/components back together. I re-looked through this thread (https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/custom-steering-wheel-logo.580208/) and noticed everyones looked the same and then felt a little better about it haha.

 

Stop bragging and pull the sock out from behind it.

 

Lemon

 

just curios, did you ever take it to the dealer to have it looked at? have same problem

 

OMG its like impossible to find an image of a 3rd gen interior especially steering wheel

/thread

 

No, the consensus was that this is normal and to be honest I hadn’t even thought about it or even really noticed it any time recently until this old thread was resurrected.

 

Ehh, normal. Mine has it too.

 

I don't know.

 

Even the Tundras with the fancy-pants interiors have it.

 

Bulge is good. Let's them know something big is back there.

 

Pfizer mod?