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Old 20 Feb 2004, 05:06 pm
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Default Re: Its the seatbelt mechanism?? (Re: mystery: light switch makes a click sound inside the door?!)

Nope plain car simple manual seatbelts that one puts on. No automatics of
any kind.

Also I realized that the seatbelts may use a different (pendulum type)
locking mechanism, which only locks when the car decelerates. I will be
testing that next, braking in parking lot.
I jumped because I saw that the rear belts quickly lock when pulled. But
maybe they use a different mechanism for the front.(inertia type)

"Randolph" <trash@junkmail.com> wrote in message
news:4036807B.ECB58593@junkmail.com...
> Fascinating. Does you car have (or has it ever had) the motorized,
> automatic seat belts that car makers put in when they were too cheap to
> put in air bags?
>
> > The worst part is that I noticed, the seatbelts dont even lock
> > when pulled quickly. Thats a safety hazard and I should probably sue

them
> > for incorrect installation of such an important safety feature.

>
> You'd probably have a good case, but it may be more effective to just
> make them fix what they did wrong. With the liability involved, they'll
> probably be quite motivated to get this right.



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