Escort seat belt

Season's greetings everyone: I am looking north to the Canadian market for this one. My 95 Tracers drivers side motorized seat belt has crapped out again. This time I am going to try to locate parts from a Canadian ride. Seems that Escorts and Tracers on the Canadian market have standard everyday manual seat belts. So if anyone has a parts car or knows of a Canadian salvage yard that will deal with us in the U.S. here is what I need. Both drivers and passengers side retractors with the anchor bolts and the A/B pillar trim. My interior is gray. The inserts are all in the body, all I need is the goods. Ford should offer customers in the U.S. a Canadian style kit to change over the their fast aging electric mistake. Thanks in advance.

I wish they had those here too. What a piece of crap that system is :mad:

I'll tell you what I did. Down at the base of the pillar where the shoulder harness retracts is a bolt. I think a Torx head. There's a little round, plastic cver that pops off for access. You can turn this to manually get the shoulder harness in the locked position. Once it gets in the position then unhook the wire going to the motor. Then you're problem is solved. That's what I did and it's no problem. I just leave the harness hooked up and when I sit in the seat I simply pull it over my shoulder. After a few times you don't even think of it.

Let's find the engineer that made this and beat the crap out of him! :chair:

thats funny tumbleweed! i'm having the same problem. i'll do that.

I have already got the buckle back and locked into position. These things have been a problem ever since they built them. I worked at a Ford dealer for 15 years and for some reason I could never convince a "engineer" to get close enough to me to do any damage. If they had to work on this junk things would be different. But maybe not. Book smart and street stupid.

I liked my fix because it didn't cost me anything :smile:

Just for info: If the fuel cut-off switch actuates then the belts won't work. My guess is if you got in a bad accident then the doors could get deformed enough for the door switch to think the door is open. Thus unlocking your shoulder harness while in the middle of an accident! The engineers stayed up nights dreamimg up this one :bs:

ummm........mine seatblet got stuck half way goin up, so i unpluged the motor so it would stop making that anoyin noise tryin to pull it up.
i grab my ownership and went down to the ford dealership and they fixed it for free since seatbelts come with a lifetime warranty.
look into it.

Haha, I like this thread.
Yup, my '95 tracer thas the same !@#$% problem, teh tarck is all f@cked up.
So, yep, I pulled the plug on the harness, now it dosn't move... just cranked that giant torx bolt until it was in the back position.
Been like that for 18 mo now, since I got it - reflexively when I get in I just pull teh seatbelt out and slide under it. No problems. And it still passes state inspection b/c the belt is perfectly functional.

only downside is, now teh interior light dosn't run on when teh door is open, so I have to get in the dark at night. That kinda stinks. Any suggestions?