Seat Belt Problems of Mercury Villager

Seat belts on 2000 Mercury Villager estate have locked up and will not release. Called Ford customer relations regarding issue and they are stating they have no know issue or recall with seat belts locking up. Rear seat belts are the ones affected. Ford customer relations is stating it is out of warranty so I will be responsible for fixing vehicle.

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Tried to slightly depress the accelerator to move up in traffic but acceletator was stuck and had to apply more force to depress accelerator causing vehicle to lunge forward nearly causing a collision with the vehicle in front of us. Rear passenger side seat belt will not extend to allow it to be put on.

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My 7 year old daughter thought it would be fun to see how many times she could wrap the shoulder belt around her neck. I was unaware as I was getting my other children buckled in. Before we were about to leave, I turned to see if she too was buckled in and found her using her fingers between her neck and the belt to try to free herself as the slack had been pulled back in. We immediately got some scissors to cut the belt to let her free. The potential for some other kid doing this and not having anyone or anything around to help makes me nervous. Bizarre, I know, but kids come up with ridiculous stuff all the time.

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Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6) event- every time the front seat belts are used. Failure- seat belts do not proberly retract after each use. Subsuquent drivers and passengers who use the vehicle then use the seat belts think they are safely buckled into their seat---but guess what!?!--- they aren't buckled safely at all because 12-18" of unretracted seatbelt is still stuck in the space between the door and the door frame! engineers even have a name for it, "lazy retraction". Auto makers know about it, the government knows about it, but nobody does anything about it. My old Dodge caravan did it after 70,000 miles and now my Mercury Villager/Nissan quest started doung it after 90,000 miles. Correct failure- lecture the [xxx] out of my wife, kids and anbody who will listen about the use of [xxx], defective seatbelts that no longer retract so that they don't think they are safely buckled when they are not! nobody wil ever convince me this hasn't caused injuries and probably cost lives.

Consumer vehicle t-boned another vehicle at 45 mph, and neither frontal air bags deployed. Driver and the five passengers were all restrained with the seat belts. Everyone sustained minor injuries from the seat belts. No one needed to be transported to a hospital by ambulance. Dealer and the manufacturer were both informed.

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The seat belts on the passenger's side tighten up after driving awhile. Dealer can't do anything.

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