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1997 Oldsmobile SILHOUETTE Seat Belts Front Anchorage Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	300518
Internal NHTSA #	745292
Manufacurer	General Motors LLC
Brand	OLDSMOBILE
Model	SILHOUETTE
Model Year	1997
File date	01/05/01
Component	SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	The driver side seat belt snapped without cause. Oldsmobile refuses to stand behind the problem and fix it. The people i have spoken with at oldsmobile just fed the company line of "the warranty is for 3 years or 30,000 miles..." when i asked to speak with someone higher, they refused to put me through, stating that i would get the same answer. The dealership in our area which will be fixing the belt is charging us almost 200. 00 dollars for this repair. This is an item that should never, ever break, and it did. Oldsmobile sees nothing wrong with this and refuses to replace the belt free of charge. I am now concerned for the safety of my family in this vehicle. What other defective safety items are yet to rear their ugly head? When will i discover them? When i need them most? A defective seat belt could have been the difference between life and death should my wife had gotten into an accident. Oldsmobile does not care. I will never buy another oldsmobile, nor will i ever buy another gm product because of this experience. When i told the representative from oldsmobile (the one who refused to allow me to speak with her supervisor) that i was speaking with an attorney to see if he could force the issue and get oldsmobile to take soem responsibility for building a vehicle with defective safety features, the woman said she could no longer talk to me and hung up. I hope that there is something that the ntsa can do to hold oldsmobile accountable in this, and any future defective safety equipment situation. It would be only right that they replace a defective seatbelt, irregardless of how long the warranty has been expired. Someone needs to hold the manufacturers accountable before another firestone tire-like disaster occurs.*ak
Vehicle Mileage at Failure
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	BREMEN, GA
VIN pattern	XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?
Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	0
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	01/06/98
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	Y
Cruise control	Y
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Drive train type	FWD
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Vehicle speed	0
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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1997 Oldsmobile SILHOUETTE Seat Belts Front Anchorage Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

1997 Oldsmobile SILHOUETTE Seat Belts Front Anchorage Problems, Complaints and Defects

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