Hey guys, I was wondering if someone knew exactly what my issue is.
I finally finished a project with the seats. I found some nasty blue seats at the junkyard and had an idea to use them with black plastic trim and replace the final tan element of my complete interior swap.
I completely took apart the blue seats at the yard and left the rails.
After completely taking them apart and cleaning them I found black leather seats in the junk on a different car and took the plastics and auto belts from them.
I completely assembled everything today, using the rails from my tan seats and set it up.
Everything looks great, however the seatbelts won’t stop when pulled with force. The electronic side of the auto belts seems to work fine: opening the doors actuates the belt track, and the belts plugged into the seats and into the sensor on the floor no problem (no chirp).
So I know it’s a mechanical issue I’m just not sure why they won’t work. When I would yank them hard at the yard I swear they stopped. But both sides will not stop. Thinking critically I would assume I did something to the belts internally, but I never touched anything I shouldn’t have.
In the manual it says if this fails, also try pulling the belts at a 40 degree angle, and that it should also catch. When I do this, it won’t catch, but it will drag about 50% more.
Any thoughts? Pretty dangerous for me to roll around like this…
Other than waiting to die in a car crash, they really look 100x better.
