Cupra Recalling Terramar and Raval Models for Incorrectly Secured Front Seatbelts

[Tell]

Popped up:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/cupra-recalling-terramar-and-raval-models-for-incorrectly-secured-front-seatbelts-276825.html

Or this one:

Cupra Terramar and Raval: Incorrect seat belt fastening - Car-Recalls

✅ Cupra is recalling 10,151 vehicles of the Terramar and Raval models manufactured between 7 June 2025 and 3 September 2026 to authorised workshops

car-recalls.eu

Does this appear on another thread ?. Last link has a Vin box to check.

Then you got the UK government recall link:

Check if a vehicle, part or accessory has been recalled

Check if a vehicle model, part or accessory has been recalled because of a fault in how it was made

www.gov.uk

 

[Tell]

I leave you to pass on the message to Terramar users to check. Our 2019 Arona was sold with a known rear centre seat belt fault with a tag on it saying don't use (that was from one of their two Seat stores). Similar situation. The local dealer did replace it when the parts came in. Seems a bit common. Probably repeat tests of the seat belts through up issues.

 

[jezyg]

Checked mine and nothing on there yet.

 

[James_R]

The Arona/Ibiza/Polo/T-cross rear seatbelt debacle was the result of the centre rear passenger having the ability to accidentally unbuckle the left rear passengers belt under extremely specific circumstances.

To fix the issue, VWG designed, successfully tested and fitted a spacer to the buckle to prevent any future instances.

There have been zero internal publications about the Terramar/Raval seatbelt concern.

 

[Tell]

Perhaps they are keeping it quite. Not knowing what to say. Don't want to spread shade .

I see Cupra has its own check site just in case:

Car Recall Checker

Check for safety recalls for your CUPRA vehicle by entering your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Get guidance to resolve any unlikely safety defects.

www.cupra.com

EU has a specific site on it with dates for the Terramar

Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products

ec.europa.eu

Born a pesky screw

Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products

ec.europa.eu

More details on Raval and Terramar

Cupra Terramar and Raval: Incorrect seat belt fastening - Car-Recalls

✅ Cupra is recalling 10,151 vehicles of the Terramar and Raval models manufactured between 7 June 2025 and 3 September 2026 to authorised workshops

car-recalls.eu

 

[Keeff]

Had my letter yesterday for the raval.
Not good if you have the faulty belts as they are only fixed with thin rubber.
Mine are ok so all good.Have attached photos so please check yours as this could be really dangerous basically no seat belts if you crash.
You can see the belt has not been threaded through metal eye not just the rubber cover. This is at the bottom of the door pillar

 

[Tell]

Friday seat belts

 

[James_R]

The same recall was about on VWs 18 months ago. 1000s of potentially affected vehicles. We saw hundreds through the workshop, not a single one required replacing.

Better to be safe than sorry eh?

 

[Momochi]

The Arona/Ibiza/Polo/T-cross rear seatbelt debacle was the result of the centre rear passenger having the ability to accidentally unbuckle the left rear passengers belt under extremely specific circumstances.

To fix the issue, VWG designed, successfully tested and fitted a spacer to the buckle to prevent any future instances.

There have been zero internal publications about the Terramar/Raval seatbelt concern.

The center rear passenger can easily unbuckle the seatbelts of the other 4 in under 2 secs.... Would that be a hazard??

 

[Tell]

I dont know our Arona got sold with the rear seat fault and a tag on it saying dont use untill a fix was found. Clearly on the above a little bit of lost QA in the manufacturing missing out loops not that I could see it from the photo. Ofcourse the company could be done for litigation if after an accident it was found there was a manufacturing fault which they knew about and didnt address.

More cost effective than litigation and reputation damage. Talking of which they disabled the one click close of the panoramic roofs after someone lost their head in America... you might find it on a Google. Easy close of side windows and the panoramic got disabled. Easy close of side windows but excluded the panoramic. Some of our European SeatCupra folk wanted to enable it again... and did .

 

[Charlie9900]

My Raval has been called for seatbelt check and managed to get booked in for 22nd December.
Just checked myself and they are fitted correctly as in the photo above but supposed I still have to take it to the garage to be ticked off.
Hopefully they can do a quick visual check when I arrive and not make we wait 3 hours.