Car Problem DataNHTSA records

1996 Kolcraft 161

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the child seat › handle (infant). No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Child Seat › Handle (infant)4
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Child Seat › Handle (infant)
Filed Mar 1, 1999CA

KOLCRAFT MODEL # 161-112, DOM 12-4-96; BY PICKING UP THE SEAT BY ITS HANDLE, IT WILL JUMP OUT OF POSITION AND FLIP THE SEAT, TURNING IT UPSIDE DOWN WHICH COULD CAUSE INJURIES. *AK

Child Seat › Handle (infant)
Filed Jan 7, 1999MI

ONGOING PROBLEM WITH THE CSS CARRYING HANDLE COLLAPSING. WHENEVER THE WEIGHT OF THE CSS IS PROPPED AGAINST SOMETHING ELSE THE HANDLE WOULD COLLAPSE. MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME.ALSO THE CORRECT CSS MFR. DATE IS 5-16-1997. *AK

Child Seat › Handle (infant)
Filed Dec 23, 1998CO

KOLCRAFT MODEL # 161-114, DOM 06/11/97; CONSUMER EXPERIENCING ONGOING PROBLEM WITH CHILD SAFETY SEAT HANDLE UNLATCHING FROM THE LOCKING POSITION. MANUFACTURER NOTIFED. *AK

Child Seat › Handle (infant)
Filed Dec 10, 1998MD

KOLCRAFT MODEL # 111-101, DOM 08/21/96; WHEN CARRYING THE SEAT BY THE CARRYING HANDLE, THE HANDLE CLICKED OUT OF POSITION BY ITSELF, WHICH CAUSES THE SEAT TO FLIP FORWARD. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. INFANT WAS BUCKLE IN CHILD SEAT AT ALL TIMES AND WAS NOT INJURIED. *AK

4 of 4 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.