1993 Chevrolet Apv

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seat belts › front › retractor. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Seat Belts › Front › Retractor2
000
Electrical System › Starter Assembly › Relay1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Seat Belts › Front › Retractor
Filed Oct 29, 1999KY

RIGHT PASSENGER'S SEAT BELT FAILED TO RETRACT AFTER USE. WOULD PULL ON SEAT BELT & IT CAME COMPLETELY OUT. CHECKED THE RETRACTOR AREA & NOTICED A SMALL SPRING INSIDE BROKE. TAKING VEHICLE TO DEALER. *AK

Seat Belts › Front › Retractor
Filed Aug 27, 1998WA

BOTH DRIVER'S AND PASSENGER'S SIDE SEAT BELTS ARE INOPERATIVE DUE TO THE SEAT BELTS BEING FULLY EXTENDED OUT, AND WILL NOT RETRACT IN THE RETRACTOR MECHANISM. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER. PARTS HAVE BEEN REPLACED ON THE SEAT BELT AND THE RETRACTOR. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

Electrical System › Starter Assembly › RelayFire
Filed Jun 24, 1997MO

VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE WHEN PUTTING PASSENGER'S SIDE WINDOW DOWN. SAW SMOKE COMING FROM DASHBOARD.OWNER NOTED THAT HE WAS TOLD FIRE STARTED FROM A RELAY. *AK

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19952000Routine
1993 — this page3010Routine
19912020Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.