Seatbelts RESOLVED

[Stephen Bigelow]

Saw that spring on my initial "yank it apart and lube" fix-it attempt. Too
spooky on a sole daily driver....flashed me back to the first time I took
apart a ten-speed bike's freewheel cluster....by accident.

But I digress, and the 40th anniversary show of Corrie's on in a minute or
two...

*WARNING* Be very careful when fiddling about with seatbelts!

I noticed that the belt would retract alright if guided past the upper
mount, so after a few spritzes of lube in the mechanism retractor (on
bench), I grabbed a soldering gun with a flat blade, and *carefully* opened
up the upper mount throat, and smoothed it out with whatever sandpaper I had
lying around.

Bada-bing! No perfect, but _much_ improved. Good price, too. *s*

Yay for me!



> difficult to do than on the earlier models audis.  There is a flat spring
> about a 1/4"
> wide and about 15' long that is reverse wound inside, kind of like in a
wind
> up alarm clock.
>   This gives it the tension so when you pull the belt out it winds up the
> spring and puts more
> tension on it.  You can take it apart and wind up the spring four or five
> more