Car Seat Harness Buckle
This investigation led to a safety recall.
This investigation resulted in a recall: 14C003: Buckle may be difficult to Unlatch
- Manufacturer
- Evenflo Company, Inc.
- Component
- CHILD SEAT:HARNESS/CROTCH BUCKLE
- Opened
- Jan 31, 2014
- Closed
- Jul 9, 2014
- Model years
- 2011–2012
- Type
- Preliminary Evaluation
Summary
On April 2, 2014 Evenflo notified the the agency that it would conduct a safety recall of 1,368,649 convertible and harness booster car seats manufactured with AmSafe QT and QT3 harness buckles.Evenflo specifically excluded from that recall the Embrace Rear Facing Infant car seats with AmSafe buckles.Please see recall 14C-003 for details of the recall.The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has upgraded this investigation to Engineering Analysis EA14-003 to focus on the Embrace Rear Facing Infant car seats produced with AmSafe buckles that were excluded from safety recall 14C-003.The ODI reports cited above, which were received through April 2, 2014, the date of Evenflo's Defect Information Report, can be reviewed at http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchSafetyIssues under the following (ODI) identification numbers:10482687, 10483527, 10484695, 10502087, 10503896, 10521737, 10534021, 10542666, 10542864, 10546235, 10548880, 10549197, 10549573, 10554661, 10555117, 10559278, 10559771, 10560817, 10563917, 10563968, 10563986, 10564030, 10564056, 10564131, 10564342, 10564497, 10564498, 10564629, 10564938, 10565555, 10566042, 10567941, 10568751, 10568813, 10572823, 10573193, 10574313, 10588386, 10590412.
Vehicles under investigation (10)
- EVENFLO CHASE
- EVENFLO MAESTRO2011
- EVENFLO MAESTRO2012
- EVENFLO MAESTRO
- EVENFLO SECUREKID2011
- EVENFLO SECUREKID2012
- EVENFLO SECUREKID
- EVENFLO TITAN2011
- EVENFLO TITAN2012
- EVENFLO TITAN
Source: NHTSA investigation PE14003. Investigations are NHTSA's review of a potential safety issue and may or may not result in a recall.