Pontiac Trans Am, Firebird, Camaro. Published by Transport Canada as 1986002 on 7 January 1986. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the front seat shoulder belt webbing may not retract into the retractor. This condition may be caused when the plastic spring cover becomes dislodged allowing the unwinding of the retractor spring. In the event of a vehicle crash in which belt restraint is required, failure of a front seat belt …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1986002
- Recall date
- 7 January 1986
- Make
- Pontiac, Chevrolet
- Models
- Trans Am, Firebird, Camaro
- Model years
- 1983 to 1985
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 56,428
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the front seat shoulder belt webbing may not retract into the retractor. This condition may be caused when the plastic spring cover becomes dislodged allowing the unwinding of the retractor spring. In the event of a vehicle crash in which belt restraint is required, failure of a front seat belt would increase the likelihood of injury to the wearer of the seat belt.
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 1986002.
Pontiac elsewhere in this register
Pontiac is named on 332 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1986026 · 20 February 1986 · Somerset, Calais, Grand Am · Not Entered
- 1986036 · 26 March 1986 · 6000, Celebrity · Not Entered
- 1986051 · 6 May 1986 · Camaro, Estate Wagon, Bonneville · Lights And Instruments
- 1986052 · 8 May 1986 · Sprint, Firefly · Emissions
- 1986056 · 28 May 1986 · Lemans, Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass · Brakes
- 1986092 · 19 August 1986 · Grand Prix, Corvette, Firebird · Engine
- 1986141 · 17 December 1986 · Tempest, Beretta, Corsica · Structure
- 1985061 · 14 May 1985 · Grand Am · Not Entered
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1986041 · 14 April 1986 · S Series, 9370, Co 9670 · Seats And Restraints
- 1986047 · 29 April 1986 · Ambulance · Seats And Restraints
- 1986116 · 15 October 1986 · 1500s · Seats And Restraints
- 1986118 · 23 October 1986 · Van · Seats And Restraints
- 1986135 · 27 November 1986 · C.o.e. · Seats And Restraints
- 1986139 · 15 December 1986 · Colt · Seats And Restraints
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 Camaro, 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 Pontiac: 332 in the register, and 147 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1986.
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