Nar 06/19/2003. *mr the passenger side seat belt could not be removed from it's receptable. The vehicle was taken to the service shop and the mechanic discovered plastic parts in the seat belt receptable had been grounded up. The consumer believed that there should be a recall for replacement of the seat belts if other buick owners are having the same problem. *cb
1999 Buick Park Avenue seat belts complaints
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Consumer has had a repeated problem with right side mirror, parallel park assistance mirror, automatically going into "park mode". Thus, he was unable to use mirror to see vehicles/objects/persons. Consumer has contacted manufacturer, and was told that they could not find anything wrong since it did not occur while they were looking at it. *ak the park assist mirror had been repaired and replaced but still does not retrun to normal position. The seat belt malfunctioned and was replaced.
Either left or right front seat belt fail to extend from the retract mechanism when the seat belt has been fully retracted. Service dept. And buick's dealer district manager, state that seat belts are working as "designed"! When this condition occurs there is an unknown amount of time that will pass before the seat belt will "release itself" from this "fully retracted position" and allow the person to extend the belt and buckle to the latch receptacle. When this "condition" occurs, [ the service manager and the buick district manager have seen the condition occur on my buick and also on '2000 buick p/a, VIN: [xxx]'. The buick district manager as "o.k.'ed the replacement of the seat belts, but under the statement "that the replacement seat belts will have the same design" implying that I can expect the same conditions. I did not purchase this vehicle to sit in the garage. My wife and I expect to drive the buick. We need seat belts that work correctly, not one's that have defects that will not allow them to be extended in a normal operation and buckled in the latch. Please provide assistance e to me and other gm and buick product owners. This condition was also demonstrated on the 2001 buick lesabre on the show room of the dealer. Vehicle detail not available, this condition exist on multiple years of vehicles and must be resolved quickly! There are perhaps numbers of persons operating their gm and or buick vehicles without having their seat belts buckled due to this defect in seat belt design. ***help!*** information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
Seat belts failed.
A malfunction occurs within the driver's shoulder belt mechanism, causes shoulder belt to become extremely tight. Cause unknown. *ak
Shoulder belt is twisted when it goes up into the retractor.
Dealer states seat belt repair parts unavailable at the factory.
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