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Rear setabelt seized-HELP! V70-XC70 1998

posted by  someone claiming to be Adam Rosenfeld on  Sun Jan 7 11:03 CST 2001 [RELATED]

HELP. I think I've read about this happening to others but couldn't find anything while searching.

I had the seats down on my V70 and when I put them back and went to reinstall my child's seat, I noticed that the belt was locked. OK, no biggie, it had slack, so I eased it back expecting it to release. NOT.

I tries this several times and, of course, each time I lost a few inches of the belt to the monster inside my seatback!

I tried to put the seat down flat again and try that, no luck. In fact, I lost so much slack that I cannot put the seatback upright any more!

How do I fix this? Take it apart? How? There seems to be a cap/cover on top right next to the belt's black hole, I assume there's a screw under there.

I seem to recall taht someone else had this happen and had to have the seatbelt replaced under warranty. I really need that seatback upright ASAP for my son and wife to ride back there!

HELP!







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    Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! V70-XC70 2000

    posted by  someone claiming to be Bato Lazaevic on  Sun Jan 7 11:44 CST 2001 [RELATED]

    There is a small plastic stopper on each belt in my car. If it's ripped off, the back seatbelt seems to go beyond a point where it can't be released until it's nearly fully rerolled. It happened to me and the solution was to unscrew the belt. A retailers mechanic fixed it for me in about 15 min and plugged the belt again, free of charge. A very strange and annoying problem, so now I take extra care when i fold the backseat.







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      Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! V70-XC70 2000

      posted by  someone claiming to be John O on  Sun Jan 7 23:48 CST 2001 [RELATED]

      That stopper, which is like a revet can sometimes go past it's stopping point in the upper plastic area where it should stop too.

      Sometimes you might then need to remove the rear side cushion (just pulls out) and unbolt the lower part of the belt where it attaches, then the seat back on your "2 seater ;)" will go back up and you'll then be able to examine the belt. If that revet like part is missing, it can be re-installed.







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        Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! V70-XC70 1998

        posted by  someone claiming to be Adam Rosenfeld on  Mon Jan 8 00:44 CST 2001 [RELATED]

        The rivet, or stopper, is still there holding the buckle up in position (which is more than I can say for the front passenger seat, BTW). No, in this case the belt is just plain locked. And the weird thing is that it locked with plenty of slack in the belt. Enough so that I calmly and repeatedly tried to feed in the belt to free the locking mechanism to no avail.

        Is there somethign inside the seatbelt assembly that may have been fooled to think the car was in an accident when I flipped the seatback to its upright position? If so, how can I get it to release the darned belt?







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          Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! 850 1996

          posted by  someone claiming to be Jim Soriano on  Mon Jan 8 06:55 CST 2001 [RELATED]

          This morning I took my 855R into the dealer with two locked rear seatbelts (on the passenger side and center.) When they call me with the prognosis I'll post a followup message here.

          Regards,

          Jim







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            Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! 850 1996

            posted by  someone claiming to be Jim Soriano on  Mon Jan 8 08:41 CST 2001 [RELATED]

            Update -- the dealer found one bad retractor (to be replaced under the 5 year/100K warranty on safety-related components) and one retractor where the belt had retracted "improperly". On the latter retractor the technician unrolled/rerolled the belt and they claim it now works fine. We'll see.

            Regards,

            Jim







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              Re: Rear setabelt seized-HELP! V70-XC70 1998

              posted by  someone claiming to be Adam Rosenfeld on  Mon Jan 8 13:16 CST 2001 [RELATED]

              It was indeed missing that little stopper. I didn't realize there are two rivets in each belt. One to hold the buckle in place, the other to keep the belt from retracting too far. I'm missing the small one. They unjammed it for me for now. I also noticed that I'm missing that part on the other belt. Lucky it didn't jam as well.

              I seem to recall breaking one of those while installing a child seat.

              Poor design, IMHO. These rivets break off WAY too easily.

              I think next time I fold the seat down, I'll first buckle the belts to keep them from retracting too far. Or I'll just make sure I have all rivets in place (duh).

              PS The wife still complains of premature lockup (of the belt;-).






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