Front and Rear Seat Belt Retractors: Notes

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2009 Pontiac Torrent and 2009 Chevrolet Equinox. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

Front and rear seat belt retractors will lock under the following conditions:

The vehicle exceeds a 15 degree angle
The vehicle exceeds 0.60 g of deceleration force
The webbing is pulled out of the retractor rapidly
During hard cornering or while descending a winding downhill grade
While braking to stop at a downhill intersection

All retractors will unlock when 25.4 mm (1 in) of the belt is fed back into the retractor.