Owner-reported complaints naming the seat belt system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming seat belts, buckles, retractors and pretensioners. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1995 Chevrolet Tahoe submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 14 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE AND APPLIED GAS THE FRONT DRIVER SEAT ACT LIKE ROCKING CHAIR, MAKING IT UNSAFE TO DRIVE THE VEHICLE. CONSUMER STATES WENT INTO OUR WEB SITE AND FOUND SEVERAL PEOPLE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. DEALER SAID NOBODY HAS COMPLAINED ON THIS PROBLEM. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. TS
ON 3/13/2001 WAS INVOLVED IN AN MVC WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF THE VEHICLE I STRUCK OFF ROAD. I WAS TRAVELING APROX. 40-45 MPH WHEN I APPLIED THE BRAKES IMMEDIATELY AND SLID APROX. 75 FEET ON ROAD AND CONTINUED TO SLIDE OFF ROAD FOR ANOTHER 50 FEET WHEN I COLLIDED WITH THE OTHER VEHICLE. ABS SYSTEM NEVER KICKED IN,AND THE VEHICLE SLID UNCONTROLLED UNTIL COLLISION WITH INJURIES TO MYSELF WHEN THE SEAT BELT DID NOT HOLD MY BODY AND ALLOWED ME TO TRAVEL FORWARD STRIKING THE STEERING WHEEL WITH THE AIR BAG NOT DEPLOYING WITH A FRONTAL IMPACT AND SUDDEN DECELERATION. *AK (TIRESIZE: 245/75R16)
WITH THE CRUISE CONTROL ENGAGED THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED SUDDEN ACCELERATION THE FOOT BRAKE FAILED TO DISENGAGE THE CRUISE CONTROL RESULTING IN VEHICLE COLLISION, AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY UPON IMPACT AND THE SEAT BELT FAILED TO RESTRAIN HIM CAUSING HIS HEAD TO STRIKE THE PASSENGER SIDE WINDSHILED KNOCKING HIM UNCONSIOUS. NLM
SEAT BELTS ALWYAS GETS CAUGHT. REPLACED ONCE BY THE DEALER REFUSE TO ADMIT DESIGN FLAW. WILL NOT REPALCE THE DAMAGED SEATBELTS. THE SEAT BELT INTEGRITY IS BEING COMPROMISED. *AK
PASSENGER'S SIDE LAP RESTRAINT IS JAMMED. BELT WILL NOT PULL OUT OF THE RETRACTOR SO THAT IT CAN BE USED. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. *AK
THE BRAKE MASTER CYLINDER IS LEAKING. *SLC
DRIVER'S SEAT BELT DOES DOES RELEASE FROM THE RETRACTING MECHANISM,CAUSING THE SEAT BELT TO BECOME INOPERABLE. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK
THE REAR SEAT BELT JOINT MADE OF PLASTIC HAS BROKEN IN HALF, CAUSING THE SEAT BELT NOT TO BE USEABLE. DEALER HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED. *AK
REAR CENTER RESTRAINTS STITCHING SEPARATED, CAUSING THE ENTIRE BELT TO BECOME SEPARATED FROM THE SEAT. THE DEALER WILL REPLACE THE SEAT BELTS. *AK
THE REAR PASSENGER'S SIDE SEAT BELT BUCKLE FELL APART WHILE THIS SEAT BELT WAS AROUND A CSS. PLEASE DESCRIBE DETAILS. *AK
CONSUMER STATES THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE AUTOMATIC LAP/ SHOULDER BELTS ARE INOPERABLE. *AK
SHOULDER HARNESS ON DRIVER'S SIDE FAILED TO RESTRAIN DRIVER. PLEASE DESCRIBE. TT
SEAT BELT STUCK IN RETRACTOR. *SD
THE ROOF RACK MAKES A WHINING NOISE OVER 35 MPH. *DSH
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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