When I bumped a metal sign in the walmart parking lot on feb 18 2002 driving 5 MPH, my airbags deployed and the seat belts froze. I found in the manual that they are only suppose to deploy upon moderate to severe impact. I along with 3 other body shops and my insurance, state farm, felt that the air bags deployed faulty and never should have gone off. There was no other damage to the vehicle, demonstrating how lightly the sign was hit. This was an expensive defect that I would like to report, in case it should happen to someone else. *ts ****dimsii ivoq entry posted after 12/12/02 cut over to artemis****760765
2000 Honda Odyssey seat belts complaints
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Rear restaint belt tightened up on accupant, cutting off the occupant's air.
Rear right seat belt tightened around child's stomach and wouldn't unlock. Child's air was cut off, and seat had to be cut.
I am filing this with you because I cant seem to understand hondas logic in dealing with a serious safety equipment malfunction on a newer car that is supposed to be under warranty. The specific problem is that the middle passenger side seatbelt on my 2000 honda odyssey ex has broken and will not retract. The general problem is that I need to go all the way to canada from seattle to get it fixed. My wife and I purchased our 2000 honda odyssey ex four months ago with 29,000 miles on it. The van was purchased from a private party who had bought it with 192 miles on it from a dealer. With the purchase came an extended warranty leading us to assume that we would be taken care of if the honda odyssey ex had any serious problems. I think of a broken seatbelt that holds in my children as a serious problem. My regular mechanic told me to take it to a dealer because he said honda has a lifetime warrantee on their seatbelts. My extended warrantee company (heritage) does not cover seatbelts or airbags but insisted that honda should. We took it to a honda dealer (burien honda) who said that seatbelts are always covered by honda. They took my info and said they would order the parts. A few hours later I got a call from the dealer stating that because the car has a VIN indicating it was purchased in canada it was not covered. I then called honda (in america) customer service center they were nice but told me that cars sold in canada are not covered by honda we did not know the vehicle was from canada, although that should not matter. It is my understanding that all 2000 honda odysseys were made in canada and all have the same familiar honda logo on the hood. I can not imagine seat belts being very different between canada and america. In an auto accident, someone could get injured or even killed because of this broken seatbelt. This week, we go to canada. Thank you for your help, marc, natalie and madison its my seat belt that is broken mccann.
All seat belts failed to retract properly.
Driver seatbelt buckle has become inoperative, will not latch in seatbelt, causing a loss of protection. Defect has occurred only after 1 week of owning vehicle. Dlr claims cannot determine cause of defect. Part replaced by honda. *ak
Rear seat belt on driver's side, got caught and would not release. My son was stuck in seatbelt and everytime he moved, it tightened. It was so tight around his stomach that he had a hard time breathing, and it was so tight that it wouldn't retract. Had to make an emergency stop, asked two men to help release my son. They couldn't so we had to cut seatbelt. Also, seatbelts come undone on their own.
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