Changing Seatbelts

[surtees26994]

Hi People
Has anyone on here changed their seatbelts. I'm looking to change mine to Red belts to match the car and was wondering if they are easy to remove/re-install. The company I have contacted (FDTS) has asked me to just take the belts to them as they do not do installs. Thanks in advance

[WTF]

Not that I know of..... What are you looking to change them too?

[surtees26994]

Not that I know of..... What are you looking to change them too?

Just keep them as standard 3 point but change the colour to red. I have bought the belts but wondered how easy/tricky it was to remove the old ones and if anyone else had done it? If not, i'll give it a go and hope i don't get stuck!

[pmatil]

I believe the belts have the emergency tightening system, not sure how it's done but in many cars there's an explosive charge that releases a spring or something like that. So be careful when removing them. From the manual:


"Depending on the nature and seriousness of the impacts, the pre-tensioning device may be triggered before and independently of the airbags. Triggering of the pretensioners is accompanied by a slight discharge of harmless smoke and a noise, due to the activation of the pyrotechnic cartridgeincorporatedin the system."

[lfcrule1972]

Sounds like some additional reading will be required and a battery disconnect to power those down at the v least....

[surtees26994]

I believe the belts have the emergency tightening system, not sure how it's done but in many cars there's an explosive charge that releases a spring or something like that. So be careful when removing them. From the manual:


"Depending on the nature and seriousness of the impacts, the pre-tensioning device may be triggered before and independently of the airbags. Triggering of the pretensioners is accompanied by a slight discharge of harmless smoke and a noise, due to the activation of the pyrotechnic cartridgeincorporatedin the system."

Thanks both of you for your responses. Better do some reading then before i attempt it.