Seat belt motor

Ok for some reason my passanger side seat belt will not go back. I turned the car off last night and you can hear the gears in the box right next to the E brake making like a clicking sound when I turn off the car. I dont know if this is the motor in the box going bad or if it is the guide that the belt slides on to go back.

Any thoughts on how to check to see if it is bad or a easy fix.

Thanks,
Mark D

Dude..the clicking you are hearing is the pretensioner disengaging, so the seat belt can move.

My passenger shoulder belt just quit working a few weeks ago also..The motor would open it (when door is open), but wouldn't bring it back when closed. I forced it back by hand (a pain in the arse), but everytime the door opened it went right back. :mad: - I finally realized what that little wheel tool is for in our jack bag...to crank the seat belt by hand!! :eek: ;) - A correct size alan wrench also works and is a little faster. - the manual crank location is behind a li'l knockout plate at the bottom of the b-pillar - it is about the size of a quarter....I took off the whole trim thing, cranked it back, unplugged the motor so it would stay there, and reinstalled the trim

I think I traced my issue to the sensor in the door. (there are like 3 or 4 sensors on each belt :() - My fix was to crank the seat belt back and then disable the motor (unplug it) - the thing annoyingly beeps at me when you open the passenger door, cuz it thinks it needs to move forward, but when the door is shut and the belt hooked, it is fine... - so I just manually unhook the shoulder belt when I get in and out that side.

The detailed testing procedure is outlined in the Helm's service manual - Get one! It just paid for itself by not having to pay some yahoo to test it all for me.... ;)

sweet that is not too hard of a fix. I am thinking that I may just go to some normal seat belts though so I can get a cener console. That will be a while until that project.

I do have the Haynes manual and will look into it. Thanks for your help!


Mark D

Seatbelts are covered under a lifetime warranty. Take the car to the dealership, and they will fix it for free.

Yeah...I just haven't gotten around to it yet....the closest dealer is almost an hour away, and I'd have to take off from work to go up there. Locking the anchor in the door closed position is just my temporary fix until I feel like wasting a day at the dealer while they try to upsell $850 worth of other repairs I would never let them do ;)