Front Seat Belt Anchorage problems of the 1997 Ford Explorer

The driver's side seat belt buckle mechanism failed, causing the seat belt to unhook with just a slight amount of force. Prior to this failure, the belt would come loose on occasion, I thought this was do to my failure to properly hook the belt into the buckle. It appears that this is a gradual failure of a critical safety item, that for quite some time would have failed to protect the driver in a crash as it would have failed to hold the seatbelt. The danger of this is that after it fails, it sometimes works and sometimes does not, which could put the driver at danger as they won't know the seatbelt won't stay connected in a crash. I have the defective part in my possession, I will forward it to you if you request me to. Dt.

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Seat belt when worn cuts across driver's neck and rubs sideways.

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1) throttle cable binds up. When it breaks free it adds 1,000 rpm to engine speed. Most pronounced after using cruise control on the freeway and deactivating cruise with brake pedal. Almost rearended car in front of me due to sudden acceleration. 2) seat belt retractor locks up. Restrains passenger to the point of pain. Very difficult to release. Retractor replaced once under warranty.

Seat belt anchors of rear seats stick up. When passenger sat on the anchor while trying to move to the middle seat, the anchor hit the passenger's spine tail causing severe pain. Lower back problem since injury.

Passenger's front and rear seat belts get tight and does not release to the point that the passengers can't move. Consumer has almost had to cut seat belt to release children.

Consumer has a child safety seat in the rear middle, when a person sits next to the child safety seat and buckles their seat belt, the release is on the side of the restraint and the child safety seat prevents access to the release, in an emergency the release would be impossible to get to and the consumer would like the design of the seat belt releases changed.