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I've been through hell and back with the passenger seatbelt in my '90
civic ex sedan. The belt's travel in the track was intermittant and I
couldn't figure out what the culprit was. The fuses tested OK with a
voltmeter. After disassembling most of the mechanism (including poking
around with the door switch) I went back to double check the fuses on
the positive terminal of the battery one day while I had the key turned
on and the passenger door open. As soon as I touched the wires coming
out of the fuse harness on the battery I heard the belt travel to the
front of the track. I then sprayed a little Deoxit into the harness and
shoved the wire in as hard as I could... it's worked ever since.

The passenger belt is set to travel to the front of the track any time
the door is opened, whether the key is on or off. It will travel to the
rear position when the key is on and the door is shut.

The driver belt is set to travel to the front of the track when the key
is turned off (or the door is opened with the key on) and to the back
only when the key in on and the door is shut.

This isn't explained at all in my Haynes manual or my Honda Electrical
Troubleshooting manual, so it took some experimenting to figure it out.
It made it kind of hard to troubleshoot because I didn't know that the
logic would be different on driver and passenger sides.

Passive seatbelts are a curse, which is I think why they only made them
for 2 or 3 years. I'm sure a lot of people used the passive shoulder
belt and not the lap belt, and I think they'd be worse off in a crash
than someone not using any belt at all.


purdyra@hotmail.com wrote:
> GUESS WHAT - i took it into the honda dealership & they said the
> problem was with the computer.
> they fixed it all for free! my apologies for not trusting everyone.
> thx!!!