[V8] seat belt

[Jeff Goldberg]

The spring is inside the seatbelt retractor.  It is similar to the recoil spring
of a pull starter for a lawn mower.

My driver's side seat belt retractor is weak.  The belt will retract if hand fed
into the retractor so it's usable, but it just hangs loose when I unbuckle to
get out of the car.  First, I removed and cleaned the retractor with no luck.  I
then removed the spring to pretension it.  I took spring off and took a couple
of extra turns on it and reinstalled.  I was successful in reinstalling it after
about 50 attempts :)  This was a major PITA.  For my efforts the seat belt
retracted properly maybe twice.  IMO the spring steel has lost its "memory".

This leads me to a question or two. Can the procon 10 cable be removed and just
the retractor be replaced?  Can the belt be removed or do you need one with
matching belt color?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf
> Of Oliver Gruber
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:25 PM
> To: 'wilke_jb at yahoo.com'
> Cc: 'v8 at audifans.com'
> Subject: [V8] seat belt
>
>
> Thanks for the replies but one stupid question - where is this
> spring? I've looked through my manual but didn't see it. Is this
> something that I'm going to have to disassemble the interior for? I
> don't really have any place to work on it anymore besides the street
> so maybe I'd be better off taking it to a shop????
> Thanks,
> Oliver
>
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