Chevrolet Caprice, Eighty-Eight, Catalina, Electra, Lesabre, Impala. Published by Transport Canada as 1979187 on 9 November 1979. System: Not Entered.
What the notice says The heads of the front outboard seat belt anchorage bolts may break off during normal vehicle use. front outboard seat belt assemblies that appear to be properly secured may in fact be only lightly retained and may pull loose if any significant loading is applied.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Chevrolet CAPRICE in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Chevrolet CAPRICE is named on 10 American notices, 1 European and 1 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1979187
- Recall date
- 9 November 1979
- Make
- Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac
- Models
- Caprice, Eighty-Eight, Catalina, Electra, Lesabre, Impala, Parisienne, Laurentian, Fleetwood, Deville, Ninety-Eight
- Model years
- 1979 to 1980
- Vehicle class
- Car
- Vehicles affected
- 130,365
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
THE HEADS OF THE FRONT OUTBOARD SEAT BELT ANCHORAGE BOLTS MAY BREAK OFF DURING NORMAL VEHICLE USE. FRONT OUTBOARD SEAT BELT ASSEMBLIES THAT APPEAR TO BE PROPERLY SECURED MAY IN FACT BE ONLY LIGHTLY RETAINED AND MAY PULL LOOSE IF ANY SIGNIFICANT LOADING IS APPLIED.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1979187.
Chevrolet elsewhere in this register
Chevrolet is named on 880 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1979161 · 26 September 1979 · Skylark, Phoenix, Omega · Not Entered
- 1979162 · 26 September 1979 · Skylark, Omega, Phoenix · Not Entered
- 1979142 · 7 September 1979 · D6500, C60, D60 · Not Entered
- 1979137 · 17 August 1979 · Bruin, Brigadier · Not Entered
- 1979131 · 27 July 1979 · J9500, M9500, F9500 · Brakes
- 1979123 · 18 July 1979 · Regal, Lemans, Cutlass · Not Entered
- 1979104 · 14 July 1979 · Regal, El Camino, Monte Carlo · Electrical
- 1979103 · 12 July 1979 · Sunbird, Skyhawk, Monza · Not Entered
The same system: Not Entered
882 notices in this register name Not Entered. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1979200 · 4 December 1979 · C.o.e. · Not Entered
- 1979201 · 4 December 1979 · Busette · Not Entered
- 1979203 · 14 December 1979 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1979204 · 14 December 1979 · Pantera, Panther, El Tigre · Not Entered
- 1979205 · 14 December 1979 · Saf-T-Liner, Mighty Mite, Conventional · Not Entered
- 1979206 · 14 December 1979 · Sportfire 340, Trailfire 340, Liquifire 440 · Not Entered
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Chevrolet Caprice, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Chevrolet: 928 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1979.
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