Seat belts
Filed Jun 16, 1998
1 injury reported
SEAT BELT BUCKLE WAS MISSING A PART, CAUSING FAILURE DURING A COLLISION, RESULTING IN EXTENSIVE INJURIES.
- NHTSA ID
- 520489
1988 Pontiac Tempest Owner Complaints
Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Jun 16, 1998
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since May 29, 1998
What this page shows
Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1988 Pontiac Tempest. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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Seat belts
Filed May 29, 1998
1 injury reported
DURING VEHICLE COLLISION SEAT BELT FAILED RESULTING IN SEVERE INJURY TO CONSUMER.
- NHTSA ID
- 536106
- Incident
- May 21, 1993
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.
Data sources
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints, published verbatim
Data on this page last refreshed .