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 2000 Mazda Protege submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 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
THE LEFT FRONT SEAT BELT WOULD NOT RELEASE. MY SPOUSE SPENT FIFTEEN MINUTES TRYING TO GET IT UNBUCKLED AND POPPED A BLOOD VESSEL IN HER THUMB TRYING TO RELEASE IT. GOING TO REPLACE IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. WILL CONTACT DEALER TO SEE IF IT CAN BE WARRANTIED. THEY SHOULD, IT IS A SAFETY ITEM! *TR
I WAS UNABLE TO RELEASE THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT BELT. I CRAWLED OUT UNDER IT AND EVENTUALLY GOT IT TO RELEASE. IT SEEMS TO WORK OK NOW BUT I'M NOW LEERY OF IT. *JB
I OWN A 2000 MAZDA PROTEGE WHICH I PURCHASED IN APRIL OF 2000. WELL TWICE THE SEATBELT ON THE BACK SEAT RIGHT SIDE HAS STAYED JAMMED. I HAD FIXED BEFORE AT A MAZDA DEALERSHIP. HOWEVER WHEN I WENT BACK ON THE SECOND OCCASION I WAS TOLD THAT MY WARRANTY EXPIRED AND TO GET A NEW SEATBELT WOULD COST $500 . I FEEL THIS IS A MANUFACTURERS DEFECTED AND I SHOULDN'T BE CHARGED. WHEN I EXPRESSED THIS TO THE MANUFACTURER I WAS GIVEN THE RUNAROUND, OR TOLD TO SPEAK TO MAZDA OR TOLD TO GO BACK TO THE DEALERSHIP BECAUSE IT WASN'T THEIR PROBLEM. NEEDLESS TO IN THE END I GOT A "SO SUE US " STATEMENT. WHAT CAN I DO OR CAN YOU HELP?
DT: THE CONSUMER HAS A 2000 MAZDA PROTEGE. THE DRIVER'S LOWER SEAT BELT FELL APART. THE CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED SEVERAL DEALER WHO TOLD HER THE SHE COULDN'T GET A REPLACEMENT. ALL OF THE OTHER SEAT BELTS ARE FINE AND THERE ARE NO CRACKS IN THEM. THE CONSUMER'S VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT. *NM
CONSUMER STATED THAT 2 MONTHS PRIOR TO VEHICLE BEING INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT SEAT BELT LIGHT KEPT COMING ON AND OFF. THEN, WHEN VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A COLLISION, SEAT BELT DID NOT WORK, AND AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. CONSUMER SUSTAINED CERVICAL STRAIN/KNEE AND LOWER BACK INJURIES. *AK
SEAT BELT LATCH ON THE RETRACTOR WILL NOT STAY IN PLACE. VEHICLE HAD BEEN TAKEN TO DEALER FOR REPAIRS, BUT PROBLEM COMES BACK AND FORTH.*AK
SEALT BELT BROKE ON PASSENGER SEAT, BELT LATCH WAS LATCHED INTO THE CASE AND RELEASE BUTTON BROKE IMMEDIATLY, WHILE TRYING TO DISENGAGE THE BELT (BY PUSHING ON THE BUTTON) THE CASE BROKE INHALF, BUT REMAINED ENGAGED UNTIL COMPLETELY DISASSEMBLED.
PASSENGER SEAT BELT FAILED DURING FIRST USE BY JAMMING. PASSENGER UNABLE TO DISENGAGE SEATBELT WHICH CAUSED PASSENGER TO HAVE TO "SLITHER" OUT OF SEAT. PUSHING THE BUTTON MADE THE ASSEMBLY CRACK IN HALF AT THE SEAMS. INSIDE OF ASSEMBLY APPEARS TO BE MADE OF PLASTIC. *AK
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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