Child Seat Problems of Chevrolet Trailblazer

Latch mechanism failure. Investigated by cpst. Latch installed according to manual in a rear facing mode with top tether on a sunshine kids radian xtsl. When installed the child riding in the car is able to repeatedly kick the latch by her feet and loosen it. The belt slips and doesn't remain with a tight install. Both webbing is parallel and should "lock" into place but it fails to do so. (related vehicle information: model year=2004, make=Chevrolet, model=trailblazer).

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I installed my daughter's sunshine kid's radian (skr) rear facing in my '05 chevy Trailblazer outboard behind the driver's seat about 2/3 weeks ago. Today when I was going to put my daughter in her seat I noticed that the latch strap was hanging so loose that I could fit my fist in there. When her seat was installed it was so tight it didn't move. Model # us19500 manufacture date 09/10 (related vehicle information: model year=2005, make=chevy, model=trailblazer).

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Installed my sunshine kids radian xtsl outboard in '02 chevy Trailblazer with latch (rearfacing). Went back later to attach top tether and noticed seat moved quite a bit. Grabbed it at belt path and was able to loosen severely with very little effort. Thought maybe it was loose to begin with and reinstalled it. I was able to get it to loosen again with very little effort. As a result I'm currently using a back-up seat. (related vehicle information: model year=2002, make=trailblazer, model=chevy).

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The latch system for the car seat broke from the car seat when I pulled the car seat back to detach it from the car. (related vehicle information: model year=2005, make=Chevrolet, model=trailblazer).

: the contact owns a safety-first child safety seat, model number 22-560 flg. While the toddler was restrained in the child safety seat, the harness buckle assembly was easily depressed by the toddler which unlatched the harnerss buckle assembly. The manufacturer was not alerted and no repairs were made.

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Vehicle does not have all of latch components, manufacturer agreed to install nescessary parts. Parts were not installed because it was deemed impossible by service dept. Due to seat design. Seat design does not allow installation of a rear facing car seat in any way. Latch is required to put car seat in because of seat design but seat design makes it impossible to install latch system.

Since I purchased the car there have been a number of safety issues. The first was the transmission. I brought the car into the dealership 3 times with complaints of the car having spells where it was difficult to drive and on two of those occasions it nearly caused an accident. The third time I had to stop the car on a busy highway and have the car towed in for repair. The have since repaired the transmission. The second issue was the car was stalling intermittentaly. The final time I had it towed in and there was some electrical issue they have resolved. I am currently trying to resolve the third issue with the car. The car engine is reving very loudly and if I accelerate beyond 40 miles/hour the car lunges forward. I have not heard back from the dealership yet but this is the second time it has been in on this issue. I would also like to note I bought the car from classic Chevrolet and they lied about the safety features of the car. I was told that it had the latch system and when my son was born in may I found out that in fact it did not have the latch system. GMC has stated that they have no way to repromand the dealership for lying about safety features on cars. I purchased this car because I wanted a new safe car to start a family and I ended up with a lemon of a car that is the most mechanically unstable that I have ever experienced. I ended up on the side of the road stranded when I was pregnant nearly an dozen times.

Rear facing infant car seat. Seat angle is too high and will cause infant's head to slump forward blocking airway.