When rear seatbelt starts to retract, it will cause seatbelt to unlock, causing child seat to be unsecure. Dealer notified. Consumer states that he tried to get service per warranty, however the dealer advised him that the center rear belt was operating within normal parameters and refused service.

- Chino, CA, USA

Returned to car to find the driver's seat in the fully reclined position. It is apparant that the seat/shoulder belt will hang up on the adjusting lever of the seat and cause it to recline over a period of several minutes. The dealer ship was told of this on March 20, 2002. They said, "the problem is that the belt is twisted." The invoice, number hocs256282 stated the seat belt was untwisted, on March 22, 2002, I found the seat fully reclined again.

- Alexandria, VA, USA

Vehiicle hesistated when acclerating and it stalled. This condition almost caused a crash, which could have been fatal. Vehicle has been checked for trouble over 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months. Dealership has been unable to correct this problem. Vehicle has stalled at four occasions when trying to pull into traffic or accelerate. Brake rotors were warpped and rear drum were scored prematurely. Clincking noise in the steering column due to combo switch failure. Driver seat belt squeake when leaning forward or backward due to retracter failure.

- Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Left stop light & "T" boned another vehicle entering intersection. Upon impact with vehicle, neither air bag deployed. Also, driver's seat belt failed to restrain. Driver hit support between side window & front window.

- Portland, OR, USA

Driver's side seat belt may not retract immediately when you exit the car. If it doesn't, it will retract, but will get caught on the power seat controls. When it retracts, it pulls the seat recline lever and causes the seat back to recline until it cannot do so because it is stopped by the rear seat. One time this happened, I was out of the car for five minutes and when I got back in, I could smell the power seat motor burning - the seat belt was forcing the driver's seat to recline. If one of my kids were in the back seat, she would have been pinned and could have been severely injured. I took the car to the dealer and they said nothing could be done (except for some type of guard over the power seat controls). I think this is a design flaw - not a manufacturing defect. Please let me know if others have had this problem. Its a great car other than this strange problem.

- East Point, GA, USA

Rear seat belt won't retract, and the consumer can't use the rear seat belt.

- Marina, CA, USA

Consumer's 4- year old child was able to pull shoulder strap around his head and neck twice. When the child let the strap go it locked up, pulling child up to the window and choking him, almost to death. Child did survive the incident.

- Sanit Leonard, MD, USA