Buick Park Avenue, Lesabre. Published by Transport Canada as 1996045 on 7 March 1996. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Certain vehicles may not comply with CMVSS 209 - Seatbelt Assemblies. Vehicles may have been assembled with one or more incorrect seat belt and/or seat belt buckle ends. If an incorrect part is used, the belt may not latch properly, increasing the risk of injury to the occupant should a vehicle crash occur. …
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Buick PARK AVENUE in the other registers
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The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1996045
- Recall date
- 7 March 1996
- Make
- Buick
- Models
- Park Avenue, Lesabre
- Model years
- 1996 to 1997
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 250
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain vehicles may not comply with CMVSS 209 - Seatbelt Assemblies. Vehicles may have been assembled with one or more incorrect seat belt and/or seat belt buckle ends. If an incorrect part is used, the belt may not latch properly, increasing the risk of injury to the occupant should a vehicle crash occur. Correction: Vehicles will be inspected and incorrect parts replaced.
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 1996045.
Buick elsewhere in this register
Buick is named on 326 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1996025 · 12 February 1996 · Fleetwood, Caprice, Impala · Suspension
- 1996065 · 29 April 1996 · Regal · Brakes
- 1996099 · 11 July 1996 · Lesabre, Park Avenue, Ninety-Eight · Engine
- 1996173 · 30 October 1996 · Skylark · Fuel System
- 1996177 · 7 November 1996 · Achieva, Skylark · Seats And Restraints
- 1996205 · 13 December 1996 · Fleetwood, Roadmaster, Caprice · Suspension
- 1996206 · 13 December 1996 · Skylark, Grand Am · Steering
- 1995211 · 29 November 1995 · Roadmaster, Fleetwood, Caprice · Structure
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.
- 1996061 · 17 April 1996 · Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis · Seats And Restraints
- 1996064 · 29 April 1996 · TJ · Seats And Restraints
- 1996014 · 17 January 1996 · Protege · Seats And Restraints
- 1996007 · 10 January 1996 · C Series, K Series · Seats And Restraints
- 1996003 · 9 January 1996 · Contour, Mystique · Seats And Restraints
- 1996103 · 11 July 1996 · Villager · Seats And Restraints
Reading this against the source
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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 register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Buick: 326 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1996.
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