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1983 TOYOTA CAMRY — Complaint #402837

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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:HANDLE (INFANT) filed April 15, 2003

NHTSA complaint #402837 (ODI reference 10015947) concerns a 1983 TOYOTA CAMRY and was filed on April 15, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 15, 2003. The report was geocoded to Virginia 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 TOYOTA CAMRY 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 1983 TOYOTA CAMRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1983 TOYOTA CAMRY
Component
CHILD SEAT:HANDLE (INFANT)
State
Virginia

Complaint Description

WHILE PLACING THE CHILD INSIDE OF THE CAR SEAT THE RED BUTTON COLLAPSED. AS A RESULT THE CHILD WAS NOT RESTRAINED SECURELY IN THE SEAT. *NLM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 402837
ODI Number 10015947
Date Filed April 15, 2003
Failure Date April 15, 2003
VIN PLEASE FILL

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.