10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
0 miles

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problem #1

Sep 301997

Protege

  • Manual transmission
  • miles
Driver's and passenger's seat belt cable will not release from the retracting mechanism, causing seat belts to become inoperable. Cable of belt is sticking out of track and motors had to be disconnected because they were running all the time and ran down the battery.

- Grand Perry, TX, USA

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