Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEAT BELTS - FRONT - ANCHORAGE | |||
| 11/05/2002 | 1 | 02/01/2000 | |
| No summary. dt | |||
| 05/01/2000 | 10 | 05/01/2098 | |
| Driver's side seat belt twist to where it won't recall and is diffecult to buckle. i received a safty recall in 2000 and took it to the dealer in lafayette, in to have it replaced. it wooked ok for about a year and then it acts up again. dt | |||
| 1 | |||
| Seat belt will not tighten or release, consumer took vehicle to dealer several times but was told there was nothing wrong. *jb | |||
| 1 | 04/01/1998 | ||
| The component in question has not failed and probably won't. i feel the design of the knob which allows the shoulder belt anchor point to be adjusted up / down could have been better. i am tall, so i sit with the seat all the way back. this knob is located exactly beside my temple while i'm driving. if i were to be hit from the driver's side, i have visions of this knob doing serious injury to my skull and what little brain i have in there. i think the knob needs to be redesigned (an adjustable shoulder anchor point in the new nissan altima is much less intrusive.) | |||
| 12/01/1998 | 1 | 11/01/1997 | |
| Seat belt failed. mjs | |||
| 1 | 12/07/1997 | ||
| Front seat belt attachments are too low, when sitting in seat it is very difficult to see release button. | |||
| SEAT BELTS - FRONT - BUCKLE ASSEMBLY | |||
| 03/01/1998 | 1 | 03/01/1998 | |
| Seat belt buckle did not fully engage and became stuck, when forcefully disengaged, the buckle didn't engage at all. yh | |||
| SEAT BELTS - FRONT - RETRACTOR | |||
| 09/08/2003 | 68000 | 1 | 04/01/2002 |
| I purchased a 1998 saturn sl2 in april of 2002 and discovered after purchase that it had a defective seat belt retractor. when the vehicle was taken to a local saturn dealership i was told that even though this is a very common problem on this model i would be charged for the repair. the dealership was also unable to find the exact part number and wanted to make the repair from a similar but not identical 1996 model. the dealership told me that saturn does not take responsibility for defective safety items such as the retractor because so many of their vehicles have this problem and it has not been officially recalled. | |||
| 07/19/1998 | 1 | 01/21/1998 | |
| Seat belt failed to restrain passenger during an accident. | |||