2003 Cosco 22-260

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the child seat › harness/crotch buckle. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Child Seat › Shell › Booster1
000
Child Seat › Harness/Crotch Buckle1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Child Seat › Shell › Booster
Filed Sep 14, 2009NC

MY CHILD HAS A BOOSTER SEAT MADE BY COSCO. WE WERE RIDING DOWN THE INTERSTATE AND SHE PULLED THE COVER OVER AND FOUND A HOLE OIN THE PLASTIC THAT HER FINGER FIT PERFECTLY! WE SPENT AN HOUR AND HALF AT A REST STOP ATTEMPTING TO GET HER FINGER OUT OF THIS HOLE. THIS ORDEAL ENDED WHEN FIREMEN AND POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE LANDRUM, SC AREA HAD TO CUT THE BOOSTER SEAT TO GET HER FINGER OUT! POLICE OFFICER SAID THAT I SHOULD MOST DEFINATELY MAKE A COMPLAINT!!! I COULD NOT FIND THE RIGHT MODEL NO. ON YOUR SITE...IT IS ACTUALLY NO. 22-293 BVL COSCO BOOSTER SEAT THAT WAS BOUGHT AT WAL-MART....THE MANUFACTURE DATE IS 06/12/08. *TR

Child Seat › Harness/Crotch Buckle
Filed Feb 21, 2007MN

I PURCHASED A CAR SEAT FROM THE DOREL JUVENILE GROUP. THE CROUCH BUCKLE IS ADJUSTABLE. ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS, I WAS ABLE TO PULL THE CROUCH BUCKLE COMPLETELY OUT OF THE SEAT WHILE STRAPPING MY DAUGHTER INTO IT. I CALLED THE COMPANY TO REPORT THE INCIDENT. THE CSR SPOKE WITH HER SUPERVISOR AND SHE RECOMMENDED THAT I MAINTAIN TENSION ON THE BUCKLE AND THAT IS PROBABLY WHY IT KEPT COMING OUT AND THE I "SHOULD GIVE IT ANOTHER TRY." I TOLD THEM THAT THE SAFETY OF MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT UP FOR "ANOTHER TRY". WITH MUCH PERSUASION, THEY OFFERED TO REFUND MY MONEY AFTER I SENT THEM PROOF OF DESTRUCTION. I RETURNED THE SEAT TO THE STORE I PURCHASED IT AT. BUT I FEEL THAT THE SEAT IS NOT SAFE THE WAY IT IS MADE RIGHT NOW. *NM

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

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.