Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEAT BELTS | |||||
| 09012005 | 09/01/2005 | 10018479 | New seat belt reminder logic for '06 models. applies to '06 accords, '06 civics, '06 pilots, and '06 s2000's. *nm | 12/27/2005 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEAT BELTS | |||
| 08/05/2008 | 34000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2006 honda pilot. the contact's three year old child was seated behind the driver's seat. directly behind the driver's head is a seat belt that is connected to the roof, which crosses into the middle rear seat. while the contact was driving 45 mph, the child was able to grab the seat belt. while playing with it, the seat belt somehow wrapped around the child's neck. the contact pulled the vehicle over, but was unable to unwrap the seat belt due to the connection of the seat in the vehicle. she had to cut the seat belt because the child was turning blue due to lack of oxygen. she called honda and was informed that the seat belt was working properly and she should have been able to unlatch the seat belt. the vin was unknown. the current and failure mileages were 34,000. | |||
| SEAT BELTS - FRONT - RETRACTOR | |||
| 02/19/2006 | 1000 | 2 | 12/30/2005 |
| Dt*: the contact stated while driving 65mph, the vehicle was involved in a crash. the vehicle flipped numerous times and landed on it's top due to the impact on the driver's side rear. both occupants inside the vehicle were wearing seat belts; however the seat belts did not hold the occupants to the seat and the front air bags did not deploy. the seat belt did not unbuckle; however there was too much slack in the belt that did not retract back into the side post. as a result, both of the occupant's heads hit the windshield sustaining injuries to the head, neck and ribs. the police filed a report at the scene of the accident. the insurance company deemed the vehicle a complete loss. | |||
| SEAT BELTS - REAR | |||
| 11/10/2006 | 2980 | 1 | |
| Dt*: the contact stated while the vehicle was parked, the center seat belt in the third row seat locked closed around a 5 year old occupant, and would not open. the seat belt continuously tightened every time the occupant moved, resulting in an abrasion across the stomach of the child. the seat belt was subsequently cut to release the child. the vehicle was not seen by a dealer. | |||
| SEAT BELTS - REAR - BUCKLE ASSEMBLY | |||
| 12/09/2007 | 25000 | 1 | 07/01/2006 |
| Traveling on a desolate highway, i heard my son whimper in the back seat. to my horror, i saw that he had tangled the seatbelt around his neck and was being lifted from his seat by it. my husband pulled off the road and we lunged back to release the belt. we then realized that he was not trapped by his own seatbelt but by the seatbelt designed for a center passenger in the second row. this belt comes down from the ceiling and connects at the seat to a latch designed without a quick release button. the latched belt had been resting against the seat behind my son's right shoulder. playing with that belt, he had pulled it far enough to activate the retraction feature. then he wrapped it around his head. when it began to tighten, he panicked, and it slipped down around his neck and tightened more. my husband and i grabbed the belt where it came out of the ceiling to stop it from retracting, but it was already too tight to get over his head. we were struggling to think straight. neither of us knew how to detach the belt and we were trying to find something to cut it. realizing the danger he was in, my son started squirming more. in calming him, we calmed ourselves a little. thankfully, i remembered a friend mentioning he had found in the owner's manual how to detach the belt from the latch by sticking a key in a notch on the latch. i grabbed the keys from the ignition and popped the latch. my son was safe. had only one parent been in the car, he would not have been able to hold the belt to keep it from retracting and reach the keys in the ignition - let alone find the very brief mention of this belt's operation in the user's manual. a driver could be unaware of this happening right behind him. my son nearly died with us helplessly standing by. another child should not have to die for this design flaw to be recalled and corrected (www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=2169050). please recall this dangerous seatbelt configuration. thank you. *tr | |||