Front Seat Belt Buckle Assembly Problems of Chevrolet Silverado

The contact stated the passenger's side seat belt will not buckle. When attaching the seat belt into the buckle it was not latching. The contact consulted a dealership about the price of installing a new buckle. Updated 12/27/2005 - while making a abrupt stop one day the seat belt became unlatched and has not worked since.

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Consumer received recall 00045 for replacement of the seat belts that locked. The problem recurred, and had not been resolved. The consumer stated that the locking of the seat belt would at the least break a persons collar bone.

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Drivers seat belt buckle failed. Can no longer latch harness clip to buckle.

In a frontal collision passenger's side seat belt unhooked, impacting vehicle to ground.

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Passenger's side seat belt is very diffcult to pull out to lock .

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Since we purchased the truck we've had numerous troubles with the seatbelts locking up and getting tighter until we have to pull off the road and release the belt buckle. Most times it happens to the rear seatbelts and from time to time the front seatbelts have the same problems. The problem starts when driving at any speed and hit a small bump in the road or a frost heave and the seatbelts lock up. We've tried to gently pull on the shoulder strap to loosen the belt, we've tried to jerk on the shoulder strap and the only thing that will loosen the belts is pushing the release button. If we drive off road to our camping area(we don't need to use 4 wd) the belts have gotten so tight that the release button was extremely hard to release. We face the problem of whether or not to use the seatbelts when driving off road. We have to stop every 5 minutes or so to release the seatbelts when off roading. Since we have two children in the rear seats they must stay buckled in. Even driving down gravel roads which is almost a daily occurrence living in our area of alaska, it's a royal pain to have to stop and unbuckly the belts. We've complained to the dealership several times about this problem and we always got their standard answer "cannot duplicate customer concerns at this time" they finally told me to bring the truck in when the belts are locked up so they can see the problem. So we did visit the service dept with 3 belts locked up and they told me "no problem, we'll order new belts". They called me a day or so later and informed me that the seatbelts are designed that way. The seatbelts are called "ratcheting seatbelts and the only way to prevent the belts from locking up is to pull the seatbelts out as far as they go and then buckle up. " we've tried what the service dept suggested and the problem still exists. So now we're at a stand off. When is somebody going to make gm fix it's defective vehicles?I sure made a $30,000 mistake buying this truck!.

Selt belt is locking under low speed movment forward and has potental for causing accident/ crash when looking over sholder to your left. Not a very comfortable feeling not being able to look when you need to. .

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While driving driver's and passenger's seat belts will lock up. Consumer will has to unbuckle them, and putt them back on.

While driving on local road was close to a tree, looked back to the right and driver side seat belt became caught, and made vehicle accelerate. It spun the tires, and hit the tree. Contacted dealer.

Driver's seat belt is locking up. Occupant cannot use the seatbelt. It would not protect the occupant in event of a crash. Will be taking to the dealer. Please provide further information.

Passenger front seat belt will lock ,tighten up as soon passenger buckles in belt. Passenger cannot lean foward, cannot move. Manufacturer claims that by law child seat seatbelt must be installed . Consumer cannot ride in vehicle due to medical condition , cannot have seat belt locked up against chest.

The front passenger seat belt locked in place. As a result the passenger was unable to move. The dealer replaced the seat belt twice, but the problem still persists.

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