2018 PORSCHE MACAN — Complaint #1960276
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:WARNING LIGHT/DEVICES filed January 22, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1960276 (ODI reference 11566957) concerns a 2018 PORSCHE MACAN and was filed on January 22, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 22, 2020. The vehicle had 27,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:warning light/devices, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same PORSCHE MACAN cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:warning light/devices failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 PORSCHE MACAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Porsche Macan. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the front passengerâs side seat belt alert was inoperable. The contact stated that while a passenger was seated in the front passengerâs side seat without the seat belt buckled, the seat belt alert failed to activate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the contact was informed that the feature was not installed in the vehicle when the vehicle was manufactured. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure but provided no assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 27,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1960276 |
| ODI Number | 11566957 |
| Date Filed | January 22, 2024 |
| Failure Date | July 22, 2020 |
| VIN | WP1AA2A50JL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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