Toyota Safety Belt: problems, complaints, bulletins

Summary for the Toyota Safety Belt across 1 model years: 12 owner complaints and 0 NHTSA service bulletins, plus repair videos. Pick a year for details.

Model years

Year	Owner complaints	involving a crash	Technical service bulletins (TSB)	YouTube repair videos
9999	12	0	0	0

What fails most often

1 Child seat 100% of all complaints
2 Seat belts 17% of all complaints

Circle size and colour show each component’s share of NHTSA complaints. Schematic only, not a drawing of the exact model.

Child seat: 12 complaints (100% of all).
Seat belts: 2 complaints (17% of all).

Symptoms owners describe

How many of the 12 NHTSA complaints mention each symptom (automatic count from complaint text; one complaint can mention several).

seat belts2 · 17%
door locks, latches, handles1 · 8%

Components owners complain about

Component	Owner complaints	involving a crash	Technical service bulletins (TSB)
Child seat	12	0	0
Seat belts	2	0	0

What owners report

Short excerpts of NHTSA complaints in the original wording. These are owner statements not verified by NHTSA; personal data removed.

I grabbed the handle as a safety precaution to help hold me in place along with the seatbelts and the handle broke off the wall of the car. This handle is poorly designed by toyota and not strong enough to be used by a typical adult male.
Child seat · 9999 · 2017-10-12 · NHTSA complaint #11033004
Seat belts:front:buckle assembly and back seat belt comes undone ,, I did not know this then I put my grandson in this car seat , click it up it was fine then went around a corner it unckick he flip over ...... And I cant afford to get it fix (related vehicle information: model year=2005, make=toyota, model=camry).
Child seat · 9999 · 2014-06-27 · NHTSA complaint #10606378
This week, one of the boys got tangled in the seat belt. When he tried to release the belt, it racheted up and tightened with the belt wrapped around his neck. He & his brother told us he was caught & asked us to stop. We were on a highway, & had to turn off & find a safe place to park.
Child seat · 9999 · 2013-11-15 · NHTSA complaint #10552422

When owners complained

NHTSA complaints by filing year. The peak shows at what age the problems show up most.

20032
20042
20061
20103
20121
20131
20141
20171

What to check before buying

Seat belts. Belt pretensioners after airbag deployment, SRS codes.

Other models of this make

Read also

Sources: public NHTSA data (USA): service bulletins and owner complaints; YouTube: links to videos credited to their authors. Complaints are owner statements not verified by NHTSA, and describe defects rather than crash damage. Data updated 2026-11-06.