2001 CHEVROLET CAVALIER — Complaint #292544
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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:HARNESS RETAINER/CHEST CLIP filed May 15, 2001
NHTSA complaint #292544 (ODI reference 745191) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET CAVALIER and was filed on May 15, 2001. The report was geocoded to Delaware based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:harness retainer/chest clip, 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 CHEVROLET CAVALIER cohort independently describe similar child seat:harness retainer/chest clip 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 2001 CHEVROLET CAVALIER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE HARNESS RETAINER ON THE CARSEAT DOES NOT STAY ON THE ALPHA OMEGA CARSEAT. IT COMES OFF VERY EASILY, WHICH IN TURN MEANS THAT MY 9 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER IS NOT PROTECTED PROPERLY. I CONTACTED COSCO THE MAKER OF THE CARSEAT ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD GET ME A NEW PIECE BUT IT IS CURRENTLY ON BACK ORDER. IF WE WERE TO GET INTO AN ACCIDENT OR SOMETHING TO THAT EXTENT MY CHILD COULD BE SERIOUSLY HURT. I BOUGHT THIS CARSEAT TO PROTECT HER, BUT IT SEEMS THAT IT WILL NOT DO THIS. I DID NOTICE THAT THE ALPHA OMEGA CARSEATS ON THE STORE SHELFS NOW HAVE A DIFFERENT HARNESS RETAINER THAT CAN NOT COME OFF EASILY. I ALSO KNOW THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE HAVING THIS PROBLEM. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 292544 |
| ODI Number | 745191 |
| Date Filed | May 15, 2001 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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