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 1994 GMC Suburban submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 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
FRONT PASSENGER SEAT BELT FAILS TO RETRACT, LEAVING OCCUPANT UNPROTECTED WITH LOOSE SHOULDER RESTRAINT. OCCUPANT WOULD HAVE TO TAKE SEAT BELT OFF, PULL BELT ALL THE WAY OUT UNTIL MECHANISM DECIDES TO ADJUST. PLEASE DESCRIBE DETAILS. *AK
BOTH FRONT SEAT BELTS DO NOT CINCH OCCUPANTS. BELTS ARE CURRENTLY FULLY EXTENDED AND LAY LIMP OVER OCCUPANT SHOULDER. SYMPTOMS MIMIC SEATBELT PROBLEM EXPERIENCED WITH MY 1984 CAMARO PREVIOUSLY OWNED WHICH WAS RECALLED FOR THAT CONDITION. DEALER CONTACTED FOR REPLACEMENT STATES GM'S POSITION ON THIS IS THAT VEHICLE IS OUT OF WARRANTY AND MY FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. UNKNOWN AT WHAT MILEAGE FAILURE OCCURED; VEHICLE PURCHASED USED FROM GMC DEALERSHIP, QUESTIONED LOOSENESS & TOLD AT TIME OF PURCHASE CONDITION NORMAL, THAT BELTS SOMETIMES DO NOT CINCH UNTIL JIGGLED, DEALERSHIP REFUSES TO REPLACE. I AM THE 2ND OWNER OF THIS WELL-MAINTAINED VEHICLE.
SEAT BELT MECHANISM FAILS TO RETRACT AND OFFERS NO SAFETY FOR FRONT SEAT PASSENGER.
PASSENGER'S SIDE SHOULDER SEAT BELT DOES NOT RETRACT COMPLETELY. DOES NOT GO BACK TO ORIGINAL POSITION, CAUSING LOSS OF PROTECTION IN CASE OF IMPACT. *AK
INTERMITTENT ABS PROBLEMS WITH STOPPING 0N WET/DRY PAVEMENT, ESPECIALLY ON SLIGHTLY ROUGH ROADS. ABS MAKES A GROWLING NOISE WHEN MAKING A HARD STOP ON UNSMOOTH PAVEMENT, PEDAL GOES TO THE FLOOR, RESULTING IN EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. IN ADDITION, SEAT BELT FAILURE. *AK
DRIVER'S SIDE SHOULDER BELT WOULD NOT TIGHTEN/HANGS LOOSE ON CHEST WITH NO RESTRAINT POSSIBLE IN THE EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT. *AK
DRIVER'S/PASSENGER'S SEAT BELTS DO NOT RETRACT UNTIL THE CLASP IS RETURNED TO PICKUP MECHANISM. *AK
DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEAT LAP/SHOULDER BELT WILL NOT RETRACT. TT
REAR BENCH SEAT BELT WAS MISSING.
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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