Front Seat Belt Anchorage Problems of Toyota Camry

I purchased a Toyota Camry le 2007 model with 2. 4 liter 4 cylinder on Mar 18 2007. After first 15 -30 days, I started noticing a squeak or a kind of rattle from the front driver seat belt support area. The service technician at the dealers site was able to successfully reproduce the problem but said everything is normal. After lot of effort from my side to convince the gravity of the problem to the dealer considering seat belt as most critical element for drivers safety, dealer agreed to fix the problem. After a week long effort the problem was partially fixed. The squeaks are audible even now when the vehicle is turned right or occasionally when the surface of the road is uneven. The technician at dealers site acknowledge this behavior but is not able to provide a permanent fix to this problem. The problem is found to be only on the drivers side seat belt b pillar area. The passenger side seat belt on the contrary do not have this problem. I am deeply concerned with safety of the vehicle since proper analysis as to root cause of this problem has not been done by the service personnel. One can imagine the security risk this problem poses to the vehicle driver as it has the potential to cause a seat belt malfunction request NHTSA to kindly investigate this matter with due diligence and ensure manufacturer does a safety recall for this problem and takes all obligation necessary to fix the problem.

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Seat belts in rear seats fell fall apart when braking, consumer's grand child fell forward. Contacted dealer, and dealer was not willing to do anything.

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On January 4, 2002, I was involved in an automobile accident while driving my 2001 Camry. A car in front of me (Dodge stratus) was stopped waiting to turn left. I was behind the car in a stopped position. Another car (1999 Cadillac deville) traveling at about 40 mph hit me from behind forcing my car into the rear of the car in front of me. The car in front of me received damage to trunk and bumper with enough force/damage to cause the trunk to not shut without repair. My question, concern is this: my air bags did not deploy (neither driver or passenger) and according to my owner's manual they should have deployed. Also, the drivers seat was forced into approximately a 45 degree reclining position during the impact and is currently locked into that position. My car had a power driver's seat and should not have collapsed. I am not sure at what point the seat collapsed but the impact must have been significant enough to throw me forward and then back hard enough to cause the seat to fail. As a result I have suffered some back and neck injury as a result of this accident. The manufacturer indicated that the seats were designed to do this but I cannot find anything in the manual, on their site or on the www to this effect. The impact was enough that a big mac in my right hand was thrown against the odometer, down the left side of the car and into the back seat on the windows. A 32 ounce coke was splattered throughout the car into the dash electronics (cd player, tape deck, etc. ) and a closed arm rest. The impact seems significant enough to warrant airbag deployment and the fact that the seat back did not provide back support is of great concern to me. At a minimum, if the seats are designed to go back like they did in this situation, the consumer should be aware.

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Vehicle was involved in an accident when there was a brake failure, dealer found the calipers to be defective and replaced the brake pads, rotors, and calipers, in the accident, the airbags experienced no deployment and the seatbelts did not work, passenger sustained injuries.

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I was very suprised to see that when I did hit the car in front of me the air bags did not come out or deploy, our seatbelts did not lock. No one was hurt. God forbid this to happen again because I don't know if the air bags will come out the next time or that the seatbelt will lock up. I was going about 75 mph on interstate 45 between parker and crosstimbers, there was an accident that occured on the shoulder-I was in the left lane and all of a sudden everyone started braking. I felt I stopped in enough time. I slammed on the brakes and slid a great distance before hitting the minivan in front of me. A scratch on the black bumper is all that happened to the minivan. If I pressed on the brakes, why didn't the seat belts lock, why didn't the airbag come out? I don't know.

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Front passenger seatbelt has broken three times in two months. Belt jams when passenger leans forward while wearing the belt (the belt then hangs lose). Belt seems to twist or fold over at the point where it comes out of the side of the car. Speed during first incident - about 40 mph and braking, second incident 55 mph, third incident 0 mph (at a stop light). Dealer initially replaced the belt, but only "untwisted" it the second and third times. Service tech at dealership tells me it's a "design flaw" and is going to keep happening if I'm not "careful" with the seatbelt. Service dept say their hands are tied, can't do anything other than fix it when it does break - and they say it will probably will break again. They recommended that I call Toyota customer relations in CA - they simply made a report and told me to work the problem out with my dealership. I'm very concerned that the seatbelt will fail during an accident.

This is mainly an inquiry regarding a failure in a seatbelt that has to be replaced. The dealer is saying that the seatbelt is not covered under the warranty as it is over the mileage limit. Since this is a safety item, we assumed it was covered by warranty for much longer. The rear seatbelts are rarely used. The car was rear ended by an SUV last year but it seems unlikely that was the cause of the failure as it was used a couple of times after the car was repaired.

Improper installation of seat belt assembly caused bolt to come loose from driver's seatbelt assembly while making an abrupt stop.

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No deployment of air bag during collision & seat belt did not restrain properly, resulting in chest injuries. 538159 dupe of 825226.

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Seat belt out of order. Yh.

The new seat belts that if pulled out they lock up. Driver's son got tangled up and had to be cut out. The more one moves the tighter it gets.

Seat belt failed.

Seat belt retractor lubricated due to seat belt catching.

Seat belt button failed. Nlm.

Front seat belt designed to lock under certain conditions due to child seat requirements, however is annoying to other occupants.

Seat belts failed. Nlm.

Consumer tried to install a child safety seat into the vehicles rear seat, vehicle was designed with switchable seat belts and when the child seat becomes secure as to not move an inch either way the switchable seat belt releases.

Owner states that when seat belts are used, they become too tight on either side.

The driver's seat belt is inoperable. The dealer and manufacturer have been notified.