2014 SUBARU IMPREZA — Complaint #2115199
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY filed July 29, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2115199 (ODI reference 11677019) concerns a 2014 SUBARU IMPREZA and was filed on July 29, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 22, 2025. The vehicle had 62,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:buckle assembly, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 SUBARU IMPREZA cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:buckle assembly 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 2014 SUBARU IMPREZA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 Subaru Impreza. The contact stated while attempting to secure the front driverâs side seat belt, the locking mechanism failed to immediately lock. The contact stated that several attempts were needed before the seat belt locked as needed. The driver was also unable to immediately unlock the seat belt buckle from the locking mechanism. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The manufacturer and local dealer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 62,000. The VIN was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2115199 |
| ODI Number | 11677019 |
| Date Filed | July 29, 2025 |
| Failure Date | July 22, 2025 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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