Chevrolet Express, Savana. Published by Transport Canada as 2005390 on 14 December 2005. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Certain full-size passenger, cargo and cutaway vans may have front and rear seat belt buckles that will not latch or will not unlatch. There are two conditions that render the buckle inoperative after customer usage. Specifically, (1) with a damaged ejector hood, the latch tongue cannot fully enter the buckle and …
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Chevrolet EXPRESS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Chevrolet EXPRESS is named on 24 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2005390
- Recall date
- 14 December 2005
- Make
- Chevrolet, GMC
- Models
- Express, Savana
- Model years
- 2003 to 2006
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 39,243
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain full-size passenger, cargo and cutaway vans may have front and rear seat belt buckles that will not latch or will not unlatch. There are two conditions that render the buckle inoperative after customer usage. Specifically, (1) with a damaged ejector hood, the latch tongue cannot fully enter the buckle and will not latch, and (2) if the release bar moves permanently out of position the buckle will either be unable to engage the latch or the pushbutton will be unable to unlatch the buckle. Correction: Dealers will inspect buckles and, if found to be inoperative, the entire buckle assembly will be 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 2005390.
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.
- 2005021 · 26 November 2005 · Optra, Epica · Electrical
- 2005328 · 27 October 2005 · Envoy XL, Trailblazer Ext · Structure
- 2005252 · 31 August 2005 · Cobalt · Lights And Instruments
- 2005235 · 15 August 2005 · Aveo, Wave · Other
- 2005184 · 21 June 2005 · Uplander, Terraza, Montana SV6 · Brakes
- 2005185 · 21 June 2005 · Topkick 5500, School Bus Chassis, Topkick 4500 · Steering
- 2005131 · 2 May 2005 · Envoy, Trailblazer, Envoy XL · Lights And Instruments
- 2005118 · 25 April 2005 · NQR, NPR, W4500 · Fuel System
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.
- 2005404 · 28 December 2005 · Rio · Seats And Restraints
- 2005335 · 31 October 2005 · Range Rover Sport, LR3 · Seats And Restraints
- 2005312 · 13 October 2005 · Quantum, Dash, Lance · Seats And Restraints
- 2005305 · 12 October 2005 · Quest · Seats And Restraints
- 2005306 · 12 October 2005 · Quest · Seats And Restraints
- 2005253 · 1 September 2005 · Sonata · Seats And Restraints
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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 404 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2005.
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