1995 BUICK SKYLARK — Complaint #222340
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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:HANDLE (INFANT) filed July 25, 2000
NHTSA complaint #222340 (ODI reference 725272) concerns a 1995 BUICK SKYLARK and was filed on July 25, 2000. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 6, 2000. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:handle (infant), 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 BUICK SKYLARK cohort independently describe similar child seat:handle (infant) 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 1995 BUICK SKYLARK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY SPOUSE AND I BROUGHT AN EVENFLO CAR SEAT A YEAR AGO (APRIL 99). THIS CAR SEAT WAS IN WELL CONDITION UNTIL LAST WEEK WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS TRYING TO STRAP OUR SON INTO HIS CAR SEAT WHEN THE RIGHT REAR HANDLE OF THE CAR SEAT BROKE COMPLETELY. THE HANDLE CAN NOT BE REPAIR AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED BY THE MANUFACTURER SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE CAR SEAT WE BROUGHT COST US $60.00 AND WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY ANOTHER NEW CAR SEAT. WE HAVE THE BROKEN PIECES IF YOU NEED THEM TO BE SENT. IN ADDITION, OUR CAR SEAT NUMBER WAS MANUF. IN 12FEB99 AND THE MODEL # IS 4211K1 P1. WE HAVE TRIED TO CONTACT THE EVENFLO'S # BUT WE RECEIVED NO ASSISTANCE. THANK YOU.*AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 222340 |
| ODI Number | 725272 |
| Date Filed | July 25, 2000 |
| Failure Date | July 6, 2000 |
| VIN | IG4NV55D2SC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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