My understanding is that sticking seat belts are a common problem on our cars. Now not sure how common of a cause this is for those problems, but thought I'd post it anyways. My driver's seat belt started having trouble coming out, somtimes working, sometimes sticking. To pull the belt out, I sometimes had to open the cover and push down on the little locking lever shown with the arrow in the first pic.

Tonight I finally pulled the belt assembly out to clean it and I happend to notice something moving around in the bottom of the assembly, just under the spool where the belt winds up. With a little shaking and the help of a set of needle nose pliers, I was able to get ahold of a nickel and pull it out. See pic 2. Now the belt works great, no sticking at all.

Apparantly the nickel was just thin enough to get under the locking lever and prevent it from releasing fully. When I pushed down on the lever it released enough to allow the belt to come out. I think that sometimes the nickel would slide to a different position and the seat belt worked.

If it had been stuck down deep in there, I probably would never have seen it and would have blamed the mechanism for being faulty. Got me to thinking, how many seat belts are considered "faulty", but may just have something like a nickel, small stone, or even dirt built up in the bottom preventing the lever from releasing fully.

Anyways, now happy with working seatbelt and a nickel richer!!

 

Pic 2.

 

Thats what my car has done for a long time i keep the cover off becasue i awalys have to push that button in to get the seatbelt to move. When i get my car back from the body shop i think ill pull it and check it out.

 

Thats pretty funny. I can see that happening alot. I dont know if it is the seat design or what, but I always lose ALL of my change.

Brian

 

haha yeah me too. along with my cell phone, keys and even my wallet sometimes

 

I havent had a problem with my keys or wallet. But I have looked for my cell phone for quite a while in the house and then, "i bet it fell out in the car" Damn FBodies

 

I lost all my keys in my car i searched for days in my car trying to find them i knew they were in there then i was driving someware and i droped my cell phone under my seat and magicly my car decided to spit out my keys. Of courst this was 3 monts after i had lost them and had gone out and gotten all new keys.

I like the back seats my frineds money aways falls back there inbetween the seats my car is chargeing them for a ride since they dont chip in on gas.

 

Me too

 

Everytime I get out of my car I have to pick up all the change I dropped. lol. It is good for getting gas money out of friends though.

 

SOmeone busted the glass out of my moms old grand am once, I had to take the seat belt off twice because glass had worked its way in to there. Those little chunks saftey glass breaks into is really bad for the operation of gears and latches.

glad you got yours working, I bet I have $10 in change in my car from it falling out of my pockets, but I will be putting in my carpet in the next few weeks so I will have to empty out my savings account (the change under my seat)