Passenger side seatbelt 1978

Maintenance advice to keep your Spider in shape.
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SteinOnkel
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Your car is a: 1978 124 Spider 1800

Passenger side seatbelt 1978

Post by SteinOnkel »

Never mind, I'm buying new ones.
SteinOnkel
Posts: 1000
Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:31 pm
Your car is a: 1978 124 Spider 1800

Re: Passenger side seatbelt 1978

Post by SteinOnkel »

Anyway, here's what I done did.

I used these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3pt-Burgundy-R ... 2749.l2649

1) remove the hideous grey plastic trim around the latch
2) cut off the shoulder buckle, you won't have anywhere to mount it.
3) Bolt the reel behind the rear seat. Use the lower of the two holes (my car has two, probably not standard)
4) Bolt the other end of the belt into one of the holes in the floorboards (see above)
5) That's it really, a bit of routing and you're off.

Thanks greenspider for the tips :)
greenspider
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Your car is a: 1980 Spider 2000 FI manual
Location: Oakland, CA

Re: Passenger side seatbelt 1978

Post by greenspider »

Steiny, I mounted the shoulder buckle loop in the top hole behind the reel. The belt pulls straight up from the reel, so I repositioned the loop for the belt to glide 90 deg towards the front seat. Hope this makes sense. Greeny
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