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Vehicle recall 92V113000 · August 17, 1992

Mercury Sable, Ford Taurus and 1 more model

The rigid mounted safety belt buckles are defective in three ways.

Source: NHTSA data as of September 22, 2026. Last refreshed Sep 23, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC.

Summary
The rigid mounted safety belt buckles are defective in three ways. First, a fastened safety belt buckle will not unlatch when the release button is depressed. This results from interference between the buckle ejector finger and the buckle tongue window. The second defect is the safety belt buckle may not latch. The third possible defect is that the tongue may be retained by the buckle, but it may not be latched sufficiently to provide occupant protection.
Consequence
An insufficiently latched or unlatched safety beltincreases the risk of injury to seat occupants in the event of a sudden stop oraccident. If the safety belt buckle will not unlatch, it will not allow theoccupant to get out of the vehicle in an emergency situation.
Remedy
Ford will replace the rigid mounted safety belt buckles with end release safety belt buckles designed to prevent latch problems.
Notes
System: safety belt buckle.vehicle description: passenger cars and utility vehicles.note: only the end release buckles on "rigid" mountings are susceptible to thismalfunction, the web-mounted front center end release buckles and theweb-mounted rear facing third seat end release buckles in taurus or sablevehicles will not be replaced. Also, the web-mounted front center buckles inexplorer vehicles will not be replaced.

Recall details

NHTSA campaign
92V113000
Reported to NHTSA
August 17, 1992
Filed by
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Owner notification
October 30, 1992
Vehicles potentially affected
565,000
Initiated by
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation
Components
Seat belts › Front › Buckle assembly
Recall 92V113000 on nhtsa.gov, with the manufacturer’s documents

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