{"id":7707,"date":"2016-12-01T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:48:06","slug":"mercedes-benz-s-class-convertible-seat-belt-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7707","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe \/ Convertible Seat Belt Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz will be contacting the owners of certain 2016-2017 Mercedes Benz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-MERCEDES+BENZ\/S63+AMG\/2017\/\">S63 AMG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-MERCEDES+BENZ\/S65+AMG\/2017\/\">S65 AMG<\/a> and S550 coupe\/convertible vehicles because the seat belt extender may not retract as intended.  According to the defect report, the control unit for a specific production range was not properly coded to account for friction conditions during activation of the extender.  In the event of a crash, the extended seat belt extender could break, minimizing the full protection of the seat belt and may create edges that could inflict additional injuries.<\/p>\n<p>MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will update the control unit software. The recall is expected to begin in mid-December 2016. Owners wanting more information about the problem are asked to contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372.  The NHTSA campaign number for this recall is  16V-829.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz will be contacting the owners of certain 2016-2017 Mercedes Benz S63 AMG, S65 AMG and S550 coupe\/convertible vehicles because the seat belt extender may not retract as intended. According to the defect report, the control unit for a specific production range was not properly coded to account for friction conditions during activation of the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1317,67],"tags":[1374,1362,1452],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lemon-alert","category-mercedes-benz","tag-manufacturing-error","tag-seat-belt-safety","tag-seatbelt-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}