1987 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #938888
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE filed September 11, 2012
NHTSA complaint #938888 (ODI reference 10475061) concerns a 1987 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on September 11, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 8, 2012. The vehicle had 113,332 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 1987 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 1987 CHEVROLET CORVETTE KIT Z52. THE CONTACT STATED BOTH FRONT SEAT BELTS FAILED TO OPEN ON SEPARATE OCCASIONS. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE CONTACT WAS NOTIFIED OF RECALL NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 91V143000 (SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE) THAT MIGHT BE RELATED TO THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 113,332 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 115,342. UPDATED 9/26/12 *CN UPDATED 09/27/12
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 938888 |
| ODI Number | 10475061 |
| Date Filed | September 11, 2012 |
| Failure Date | September 8, 2012 |
| VIN | 1G1YY2189H5 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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