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They are meant NOT to be taken apart.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:15:56
In Reply to: Re: The Junkyard solution, Bruce A, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:54:40
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They can be removed from a car as a unit, and swapped car to car, but the seatbelt mechanism itself has lots of anti-tamper features meant to keep even clever careful DIYers from opening them up to "fix" something. They are pretty subtle and they don't want one to malfunction in a crash.
Could the belt itself have possibly gotten kinked and folded somewhere, and that's what's making the drag? Pull it out to its fullest to see, and if so, twist it back and it should settle down.
On older C900s they sometimes get slow enough for people to complain, and one owner said there's a liquid meant to dip sailboat sails in to make them more flexible, which he had brushed onto his seatbelts with good results. Made the BELTS more supple, didn't actually lube the mechanism
But as to getting mechanical lube inside the spring reel where it could do what's needed, I doubt even with a spray wand WD40 can you could get much in.
If you try it, have seatbelt pulled all the way out so there's not fabric in there to soak up everything you're spraying.
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