July 2007
Suzuki is recalling 75,697 MY 2006-2007 Forenza and Reno passenger vehicles. The front seat belt tongue will not latch into the buckle and, in rare cases, even the locked tongue will pop out by low stretching force. If the buckle does not latch completely, the buckle could release without pressing the release button. These buckle malfunctions, which could prevent a person from using the seat belt or could cause the seat belt to fail to function as designed, can increase the risk of injury in a crash. Dealers will replace the front driver and passenger seat belt buckles...
Week after week, month after month I am asked ”Why didn’t my airbag go off? I was hit hard enough, the frame rail is bent, the engine mount was broken but the airbag never went off.”
These situations are far too common and even more commonly misunderstood. The airbag systems are designed for specific impacts, using very specific criteria to determine the severity of the crash as well as the degree of danger to the occupants of the vehicle. The earlier models used multiple sensors placed strategically in the front end of vehicles, while many of the...