URGENT HELP !!!

[hobo]

Seatbelts not working at all (not the normal pulling them too quickly, etc, etc).

I have a lot of miles to do this weekend & need to sort it.

Please help.

[apeebles]

Are you parked on a slant? Move the car and you may find that it will work again.

[hobo]

Nope, tried that.

Seems stuck.

[stephenson]

Tried a Tuscan at the weekend, did the same.

Try opening the door and pulling at a different angle.


Christian.

[wedget]

you could try parking on a hill both ways to free it then clip it undone with something till you can sort

[K.K.]

Try pushing the straps back into their housing then pull out again very very gently in a downward motion. Hope this works but, from what you say, they sound truly stuck - HOWEVER they may just cure themselves overnight for no apparent reason!

[simon@63]

Push the seat back as far as possible and pull gently.

It does help, but it still jams frequently.

It has to be said, for the thousandth time (yawn-yawn) that fitting unreliable seat-belts is very, very shoddy...

Anybody at the factory want to offer me a solution?

I'll happily pay.

[Mr Freefall]

pull your seat forward

[spenny]

simon@63 said:

Push the seat back as far as possible and pull gently. It does help, but it still jams frequently. It has to be said, for the thousandth time (yawn-yawn) that fitting unreliable seat-belts is very, very shoddy... Anybody at the factory want to offer me a solution? I'll happily pay.

It's a fair call - I mean i guess none of us really mind too much when the glove box doesnt shut, the boot only opens 1 time out of 3, etc. etc., that's kind of fine and expected with a handbuilt car.

Likewise, we don't have a great deal of safety equipment fitted, which again given the type of car is fair enough. Some people just wouldn't want ABS, and where the hell would you put an airbag? But the seatbelts are a pretty important bare minimum, and it really wouldn't take much to make sure they worked properly in IMHO.

To be honest, I can't really see myself having anything other than a TVR in the future (unless practicality ABSOLUTELY demands it!) but this sort of shoddiness on such an important thing does worry me a little...

[dcmpriory]

I had this problem at the weekend. It was the passenger side at fault. I wish I could say how I managed to get it moving again - but I can't. Looked at taking the panel off but then could not get to the mechanism. After i while i just pulled it again and it worked. Didn't really do anything different at all.

Apart from being a pain in the ass - it does of course mean that planned trips can't happen if you have a passenger - even worse if it's the drivers side but this seems to be ok at present for me!

Dave.