1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #806522
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE filed August 13, 2010
NHTSA complaint #806522 (ODI reference 10349221) concerns a 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on August 13, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 29, 2010. The vehicle had 106,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:anchorage, 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 CHEVROLET CORVETTE cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:anchorage 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 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED HE ATTEMPTED TO USE THE SEAT BELT BUT IT WOULD NOT COME OUT OF THE RETRACTOR. HE CALLED AN AUTHORIZED DEALER AND THEY ADVISED HIM THAT THEY WOULD LOOK INTO THE FAILURE AND CALL HIM BACK. HE MADE SEVERAL CALLS TO THE DEALER AND NO ONE RETURNED HIS CALL. HE CALLED THE MANUFACTURER AND WAS REFERRED BACK TO THE DEALER. THE CONTACT REFERENCE RECALL 91V143000, SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE. THE DEALER ADVISED HIM THAT THE PART FOR THE RECALL WAS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. THE DEALER VERIFIED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS PART OF THE RECALL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 106,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 106,100.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 806522 |
| ODI Number | 10349221 |
| Date Filed | August 13, 2010 |
| Failure Date | July 29, 2010 |
| VIN | 1G1YY3383M5 |
Similar SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE Complaints for 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. THE SEAT BELT RETRACTOR ON THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER SIDE WILL NOT LOCK. THE DEALER STATED THAT GM WILL NOT SUPPLY THE PARTS FOR THE SEAT BELT AND ARE NO
DRIVER SIDE SEAT BELT IS UNUSABLE AS IT IS LOCKED IN THE RETRACTED POSITION. I WAS INTERESTED TO NOTE THAT A RECALL WAS ISSUED CONCERNING THIS PROBLEM. WHEN I PURCHASED THE CAR USED (3 YRS. OLD) AT
SEAT BELLT LOCKED UP AND FAILED TO RELEAS EPRIOR TO/AFTER RECALL REPAIRS 91V-143). *AK
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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