Front Seat Belt Retractor problems of the 2001 Buick Lesabre

Two problems related to front seat belt retractor have been reported for the 2001 Buick Lesabre. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Buick Lesabre based on all problems reported for the 2001 Lesabre.

1 Front Seat Belt Retractor problem

Failure Date: 08/10/2002

I have an intermittent problem with my driver side seatbelt. The belt keeps getting caught in the floor retractor. When I try to pull the belt up to use, it gets stuck and has to be tugged on 5-6 times to get it to release. Orange Buick first looked at it on 4/25/02 and claimed, "belt out of place causing lock to engage r&r and reposition left front seat belt retractor. " that did not fix it and I brought it back again on 7/1/02. They said they would have to order a new belt and replace it. Supposedly, Buick realized that they had a problem and had redesigned their belts. The replacement belt was installed on 7/16/02, and worked okay for about 2 weeks, and has started the same problem all over again. Because it is an intermittent problem, they can't seem to reproduce the problem, but I keep getting caught with it. I'm very concerned that one of these times, the belt will not release after 5 or 6 tugs and then I will be forced to drive my car without the seatbelt engaged, which is both illegal and very dangerous.

2 Front Seat Belt Retractor problem

Seat belts retractor is built into back of seat, next to the headrest, consumer can't see into the blind spot when turning head around to look to go into the left lane, the consumer's are 5'5" and under, the dealer was contacted and told the consumers that nothing could be done.


Other Seat Belt related problems of the 2001 Buick Lesabre

Front Seat Belt Retractor problems
2
Front Seat Belt Buckle Assembly problems
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