Rear seat belt replacement - Printable Version
+- 968Forums.com (https://968forums.com/forum)
+-- Forum: FIXING MY BABY - OEM REPAIRS (https://968forums.com/forum/fixing-my-baby-oem-repairs)
+--- Forum: OEM REPAIR & TECHNICAL (not modifications) (https://968forums.com/forum/oem-repair-technical-not-modifications)
+---- Forum: Interior (https://968forums.com/forum/interior)
+---- Thread: Rear seat belt replacement (/rear-seat-belt-replacement.html)
+- 968Forums.com (https://968forums.com/forum)
+-- Forum: FIXING MY BABY - OEM REPAIRS (https://968forums.com/forum/fixing-my-baby-oem-repairs)
+--- Forum: OEM REPAIR & TECHNICAL (not modifications) (https://968forums.com/forum/oem-repair-technical-not-modifications)
+---- Forum: Interior (https://968forums.com/forum/interior)
+---- Thread: Rear seat belt replacement (/rear-seat-belt-replacement.html)
Rear seat belt replacement - pdxmike - 04-09-2021
Spent the morning working on finding the source of my raw gas smell with windows done. In the process, I managed to cause my passenger rear belt retractor to explode. A lot of potential energy stored in those springs!
Review of the usual sources doesn't show any reasonable options. I'm able to find available used belts but for 944s which have a different buckle tang. Briefly looked at new from the dealer but they are $350 plus.
Wondering if anyone has a repair source?
Rear seat belt replacement - MCL968 - 04-09-2021
Check los angeles auto parts on eBay, they have a bunch of 968 parts available.
Rear seat belt replacement - Kim - 04-09-2021
that could well be a Gordian spring, similar to a Gordian Knot, which created the name of a family of marine nematodes called Gordiacea. Save it - it may be special!
Rear seat belt replacement - Waylander - 04-09-2021
That looks like it could do you some damage, try 944 reanimation on eBay they have some 968 bits
Worst case if needed I can send something from the U.K.
Rear seat belt replacement - pdxmike - 04-22-2021
Thank you all for the suggestions. I have an entertaining postscript.
Should have added previously that my passenger rear seatbelt appeared to be unable to pull forward after removal, locking with every attempt. I struggled with it for a good 15 minutes without progress. I decided I must have damaged it in removing it. This lead to my attempt to disassemble, thereby causing the belt's subsequent auto-destruction.
Well, I was able to source a used replacement belt from a dismantler, which arrived today. But, same issue! The replacement belt would not pull forward!
I'm cursing the dismantler for sending me a faulty belt, and I start trying to find the part number on the retractor. I see embossed on the plastic cover "Y = 59 X = 0."
Of course. The inertia mechanism must be in the installed position to operate.
I fitted the retractor into the mount. Works absolutely perfectly.
It was an $83, and quite humbling, lesson.
Rear seat belt replacement - MCL968 - 04-23-2021
That's how we learn! I took one apart one time because it would not work, and found a half a cup of broken glass in the mechanism. The window had been broken and replaced, but a lot of the glass went down the belt guide tube and worked its way into the spool and ratchet. After cleaning it worked fine.
Recently I sorted out a problem that had been bothering me for years, namely an extra twist in the belts of my Cab. I pulled the covers and pulled the belts as far out as they could go, then I kept then from rewinding by jamming the spool with a thin bladed screwdriver. Once they were immobile, I folded the belt and pulled it through the spool to rotate it within the spool by half a turn. Problem solved and now the belts work properly and don't feel like they were improperly installed. I believe they have been this way since 1992.
Rear seat belt replacement - Waylander - 04-23-2021
And the satisfaction is just amazing