Intergrated child seat began to tighten up on the child. It had to be cut off to release child. Dealer has been contacted.
1996 Dodge Caravan seat belts complaints
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Passenger seat belt failed. Yh
Driver's seat belt does not fully extend from the retracting mechanism, causing the seat belt to become inoperable. Please give any further details.
I was driving approximately 35 MPH. I hit a slight dip in the road and my driver's side air bag deployed, causing a tragic accident. When the police arrived my child's seat was not restrained in the rear seat. They closed the highway for 5 hours looking for a baby, who may have climbed out one of the broken windows, they thought. Thank god, she was at home.
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None of the automatic seat belts lock. When pulled they extend about two feet. Dealer contacted, and stated the computer did not secure the seat. Could be remedied. Problem still exists.
Mechanism on shoulder belt on the driver's side rear seat broke, causing the seat belt to become inoperable. Please give any further details.
Intergrated child seat belt locks up, seat belt also jams. Owner notes that when seat belt is pulled it gets tighter. Owner also noted that the seat belt area is clean.
Intergrated child seat will not allow forward movement and that seat moves back. Child becomes slanted in seat and is slammed into back of seat.
Ea97003, when removing the child from seat the belt locked up and caused the t-shield to tighten around child's neck. The belt had to be cut in order to remove child from seat.
Consumer complains that integrated child safety seat jams, causing child to be locked in seat.
Vehicle's intergrated child safety seat straps are locking up around the child's neck.this will be the 4th seat which is being replaced by the car manufacturer. Currently, manufacturer wants to replace seats with bench and refund owner for the intergrated child seat. The anchor points on the belts are in the wrong place.
Vehicle hit a post in the parking lot and the air bag did not deploy. Also the seat belt did not retain the driver in the seat which caused the driver to get hurt. Investigation (dp-96- 014) for defective air bag sensor.
When taking the child out of the integrated built-in css, the retractor mechanism locks up and the release clip becomes very difficult to depress.
Built in child safety seat belt will not release to get over child's head & get child out of seat. Under investigation #ea-97-003.
Seat belt retractor: while trying to get daughter out of the car seat, the belt that goes over the head would not go forward to get her out. The sea tbelt constantly twisted inside the retractors and can't get them out.
Chrysler built in seat, the straps are very loose, causng the child to get out of seat, no plastice retainer clip, also when crumbs get into side seat retractor, the belts won't tighten properly.
Rachet mechanism on the integral child safety seat constantly jams. Cannot pull seat belt out of the mechanism. Problem has been corrected once by dealer, same exact problem occurring again.
When removing child out of the integral child safety seat the belts would not release, but kept tightening up and harness went up under the child's neck, almost choking child. Straps had to be cut with knife to remove child.
Chrysler built-in css, the retractor is built to0 close, causing the child's hair to get caught in the retractor and large amount of hair fell off.
Failure of the seat belt buckle, the seat belt comes unlatched from the buckle, consumer noticed that the belt clicks it is engaged.. Consumer contacted the dealer and the dealer stated it was normal operation.
Chrysler integrated child safety seat plastic harness retainer clip is missing.
Failure of the child safety seat, buckle will not unlatch, causing the child to be trapped in the seat.
Consumer is having a problem with the rear lap seat belt, the belt does lock and unlocks with difficulty.
Integrated child seat belt retractor inoperative.
Seat belt buckle jammed.
Built in child seat jams when trying to release belt, had to cut the seat to get the child out.
Could not remove child from integral child seat without cutting the straps. Straps got real tight, couldn't get straps above child's head. Describe details.
Seat belt in front passenger seat designed to accomodate child safety seat, this is a safety hazard since child seats shouldn't be used near airbags.
During impact, the driver's side air bag did not deploy and the driver's side shoulder belt did not lock. Please describe.
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