1997 GMC Sonoma defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1997 GMC Sonoma. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• DRIVER'S SEAT BELT BUCKLE ASSEMBLY
  Recall Query RQ04002 · opened Feb 18, 2004 · closed May 27, 2004

  On february 18, 2004, odi opened this recall query (rq) based on two fatality reports involving my 1997 gm s-10 pickup trucks.each report alleged that the belted driver occupant was ejected in a multiple-rotation rollover crash.the my 1997 s/t series pickups use an energy-absorbing loop in the driver seat belt that all…

• ABS BRAKING SYSTEM
  Engineering Analysis EA94038 · opened Oct 31, 1994 · closed Feb 28, 2000 · led to recall 99V193000

  This investigation resulted in a safety recall, 99v-193, and a service campaign, 99i-006.