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Fiat 500X 2016technical service bulletin

Bulletin 1000316 · NHTSA communication 10223829 · issued Sep 14, 2016

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Seat Belts
component
2016
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Rear Outboard Seat Belt Is Slow To Retract This bulletin involves installing a washer between the seat belt retractor mounting bolt and the retractor on both the rear outboard side retractors. The customer may describe that either one or both of the rear outboard seat belts may retract slowly.

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.