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seatbelt retracting fix.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:47 pm
by Dee
Read in another thread that patrol owners stick a zip-tie around the belt at the shoulder swivel to stop it retracting when on cambers/angles when offroading…
Anyone know if this or any other tricks/tips to set the seatbelts at a set length will work in a zuk and stop them retracting so they can be put back on easily? (short of replacing them with non-retractables or a harness?)

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:05 pm
by cj
Clothes pegs or bulldog clips work and are cheap but I bought some plastic seatbelt clips from Autobarn a few years back for a few dollars. They can't get knocked off by accident. I think they were Matrix.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:58 pm
by Spike_Sierra
i used to work at a department store so i knocked off a security tag(a pin and a big button looking thing) so it cant get retracted, only problem is getting one :P

edit for below post: put it somewhere in between the retractable length so it doesnt interfere with the belts safety features. For easy removeable, use a clothes peg.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:07 pm
by gman79au
just make sure you can remove them quickly, there are illegal, not sure if cops will look for them but its a pinkslip fail

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:34 pm
by Dee
gman79au wrote:just make sure you can remove them quickly, there are illegal, not sure if cops will look for them but its a pinkslip fail
only need em for wheeling...

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:57 pm
by spzook
does anyone know how to 'unlock' seatbelts. they have been taken out of the zook and now i cant get them to pull back out.

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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:05 pm
by Pyrotech
gman79au wrote:just make sure you can remove them quickly, there are illegal, not sure if cops will look for them but its a pinkslip fail
is this speaking from experience?

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:20 pm
by want33s
spzook wrote:does anyone know how to 'unlock' seatbelts. they have been taken out of the zook and now i cant get them to pull back out.
The locking mechanism works two ways.
1, It locks the belt when you try to pull it out quickly.
2, It locks the belt when the vehicle is on an angle.

Hold the retractor reel upright as it would be in the car and pull slowly, the belt should unreel as usual.
Jas.

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:38 am
by chris.e
You can get belt locking device from a baby shop that sells safety capsules and such, they look like a 3 pronged fork, i have seen them made from plastic and pressed metal, hope this helps.

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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:47 am
by Pyrotech
Im guessing it locks onto the two belts just infront if the loop part on the B piller?
im might have to mod me up a fork