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Update: Transport Canada has initiated an investigation and examined the car at the dealership. I haven’t heard from the investigator since I talked to him last week. The dealer has the car apart and are waiting on the seatbelt assembly. Talking to the service manager, he had nothing else to say about the car’s condition and couldn’t understand why it failed. While it’s a small dealer, they haven’t seen this happen before. The car has been rust protected since new, only has 70,000 km (about 43,000 miles). I haven’t been able to find anything suggesting that the NHTSA has an investigation going about this issue. But, I encourage everyone with an S550 to check the mounting point on your cars. You will have to pull the shield up. Honestly, this car hasn’t been subjected to extreme environments. The only moisture this should have been exposed to is from opening and closing the door on a wet day. Normal stuff.
10/25/23, 03:41 PM
