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Old 20 Feb 2004, 06:47 pm
Elan7eOwner
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Default Re: Its the seatbelt mechanism?? (Re: mystery: light switch makes a click sound inside the door?!)

Negative. No such history. Yes I am in the US, but this car may have come
from canada. I am the third owner.
There should have been tracks or something like that visible. Plus this is a
very basic car, I dont expect it to have had those anyway. There are no
related fuses etc that I ever found either.

"Randolph" <trash@junkmail.com> wrote in message
news:40368B43.7EB5C7A@junkmail.com...
> All cars sold in the US after Sep 1 1989 were required to have a passive
> restraint system. If your car did not come with air bags, it must have
> had automatic seat belts when it was new. Are you in the US? Are you
> the first owner of the car?
>
> I am thinking that perhaps a previous owner got rid of the annoying
> automatic seat belts and put in a pair of manual ones, leaving behind
> various vestiges in the form of relays and switches.
>
> Elan7eOwner wrote:
> >
> > 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)



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