Polaris preliminary evaluation PE17005
Seatbelt Retractor Failure. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation opened this preliminary evaluation about the anchorage on 5 model years (2015–2019). Opened Sep 18, 2017, closed Mar 25, 2019 after 18 months. It led to safety recall 18V531000. became a recall
What NHTSA says
Source: Office of Defects Investigation, as filedSee attached closing resume summary.
A Preliminary Evaluation is the first formal stage: NHTSA has decided the complaints and other information it screened are worth a closer look, and asks the manufacturer for its own data on the condition. The summary is the agency’s own text from its investigation file, unedited; the resumes carrying the full reasoning are linked below.
The paperwork NHTSA filed
Source: every document on this action, at nhtsa.gov- Opening resume — ODI’s own summary of why it opened this — the subject, what prompted it, and the vehicles in scope.
- Closing resume — ODI’s own summary of why it closed this, and what it concluded.
| Document | Code | Filed | At NHTSA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening resume | INOA | 2017 | |
| Closing resume | INCLA | 2017 | |
| Information request to the manufacturer | INIM | 2017 | |
| Manufacturer's response — data | INRD | 2017 | |
| Manufacturer's response — full submission | INRL | 2017 | 2 files 12 |
These are NHTSA’s own files, served from the agency’s site — the resumes are what ODI wrote when it opened and closed the action, and the rest is the correspondence behind them, including what the manufacturer sent when the agency asked. They are linked, not copied: where a document names the people who wrote in, that redaction is the agency’s to make and its copy is the one you should read.
What owners had already reported
Source: complaints on file the day it openedWhen NHTSA opened this on Sep 18, 2017, owners had filed 26 complaints with the agency about the model years above. Owner complaints are the agency’s main early signal: ODI screens them, and a Preliminary Evaluation is usually where a pattern in them ends up.
This is what the complaint file held on that date, not a claim about which reports prompted the investigation — NHTSA’s complaint records carry no investigation number, so nobody can make that link from the data alone. The opening resume linked above names the reports ODI itself cited. Complaint records on this site begin with 2016.
What this means for an owner
Source: and what happens nextAn investigation is not a finding that a defect exists, and it puts no duty on anyone. NHTSA opens a Preliminary Evaluation when complaints and other reports suggest a condition worth asking the manufacturer about; it upgrades to an Engineering Analysis when the answers warrant testing; it closes either when it recommends a recall, when the manufacturer recalls on its own, or when no defect trend is found. The agency’s own goals are about four months for a petition, eight for a Preliminary Evaluation or a Recall Query and eighteen for an Engineering Analysis; many run longer.
This one became a recall. The campaign page carries the manufacturer’s filed defect, risk and remedy, the build window and every model year covered; whether one specific vehicle is included is settled by VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Model years it names
Source: as NHTSA filed themAlso named: 2015 Polaris Slingshot; 2016 Polaris Slingshot; 2017 Polaris Slingshot; 2018 Polaris Slingshot; 2019 Polaris Slingshot.
A vehicle page’s investigation list carries the same action; a name here is the scope NHTSA opened, not a list of affected VINs.
Common questions
Source: NHTSA Office of Defects InvestigationIs PE17005 a recall?
No — it is the investigation that led to one. Recall 18V531000 is the campaign; its page carries the remedy.
Is PE17005 still open?
No. It closed on Mar 25, 2019 and led to recall 18V531000.
Which vehicles does PE17005 cover?
NHTSA opened it on 5 model years: 2015 Polaris Slingshot, 2016 Polaris Slingshot, 2017 Polaris Slingshot, 2018 Polaris Slingshot, 2019 Polaris Slingshot. That is the scope of the inquiry, not a list of affected vehicles; a recall, if one follows, defines its own population by VIN.