Rear Seat Belt Problems of Honda Civic

The contact owns a 2006 Honda Civic. While examining the vehicle he noticed that the plastic trim on the rear seats were cutting into the rear seat belts. The vehicle was taken to the dealership for inspection. The technician stated that the rear seat belts needed to be replaced. The current and failure mileages were 62450. Updated 01/26/10 updated 01/26/10.

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Two of the three back seat belts, the center and the back driver's side, have broken away from the buckle side that is bolted to the body of the car. They broke when I tightened then up to buckle a child car seat. It happened on the day that I made this complaint so I haven't been able to replace them.

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My 3 year old son unbuckled the seat belt while in car seat while car was parked. He managed to get the seat belt twisted around his waist and chest. He started screaming, and when I tried to get slack in seat belt, there was none. It kept restricting him and started to effect his breathing, which became labored and shallow. As much as I tried I could get no slack. I went to look for a knife and had to cut the seat belt to free him. I took it into stephen wade Honda. They looked at the other seat belt in the back seat and said it was functioning properly, but had no slack when unlocked like the others. My son could have been killed by this. When a seat belt is unbuckled, there should be a way to get slack and pull it out to avoid these very situations. This needs to be a recall and the cam system needs to be redone so it allows more slack for emergencies.

My 7 1/2 year old son got into the back side passenger seat of my mother's Honda Civic, (we were visiting them from out of town)-- I was driving, and my mother was in the front passenger seat. I had assumed my son was buckled in (he always is able to do so without any problems, and has done so for a long time now), and we had gone down the road for a couple of minutes, and I looked back at him and the seat belt was not buckled, but the length of it had looped around his neck somehow, and was tight around his neck. He said "I can't breathe," and his face was red. I immediately stopped, jumped out and ran around the back to try to dislodge him, but could not pull the strap at all from where it goes back into the top of the seat area above his head--it had locked in the ratcheting mechanism and would not release and in fact, as I pulled on it, it seemed to only get tighter. I yelled to my mother who was in the front seat-- she realized what was going on, and she grabbed a large pair of scissors (miraculously, she keeps them in her car. . . ) and we were able to cut the belt and get my son released. Had she not been there, and had she not kept the scissors in the car, (I never would have known she kept scissors), well, I cannot even deal with such an unthinkable possibility. It would have been tragic, whatever the particular outcome.

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The rear passenger seat belt unlatched by it self automatically. While driving the consumer could hear a noise. The seat belts would not stay latched.

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The middle seatbelt in the back does not work. I have taken it to the dealership and they could not get it to come out. If it is against the law if you don't have your seatbelt on why isn't it mandatory that they fix this problem? also when you turn the rear defroster on and have the heater on the radio does not work.

Consumer stated the rear seat belt buckle clip mechanism is not working properly. Dealer has been notified. Please provide further information. The consume no longer owns the vehicle. Updated 11/29/05.

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Rear seat belt does not tighten up when the belt is activated. Also, bolt that holds the seat in place failed when child safety seat was placed in the rear seat. Seat belt has been replaced once, and has failed again. Dealer has been contacted.

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The problem is not a failure. The problem is that rear seatbelts are not long enough to go around my wife or myself when wearing a winter coat. We contacted Honda to see if they could provide a seatbelt extender. They said that they do not provide or recommend the use of seatbelt extenders. We had seatbelt extenders for a previously owned Volvo that had front seatbelts that did not go around my wife. The did not go around my wife because my wife is 5 feet 2 inches tall and she had to keep the front seat forward. While Volvo also did not recommend the use of seatbelt extenders, they provided them as they were better than using no seatbelt. We would argue that a longer seatbelt or seatbelt extenders are a safer alternative to not using seatbelts. We also belive that it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to provide a seatbelt or extenders that would make the car safe. However, a reasonable cost to make the back seatbelts more usable would not be objectionable.

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