If you have air bags, you probably have an explosive charge seat belt
retractor. I believe that the charge is something like what's in a 45
auto
cartridge, heh. The idea is that the air bag can do you some harm if you
are leaning forward at the time of the impact. This thing goes off and
yanks you back into the seat, a fraction of a second before the air bag
goes
off and snaps your neck. Imagine a volunteer fireman with one of those
jaws
of life things, cutting one in half.
If you are lucky enough to have air bags, then as the man said OEM parts
only, even for something like a stuck seat belt retractor. If you want to
replace the belt with a racing or off road type harness, this might be a
good idea, but then you lose the ability to lean forward and fish around
in
the glove compartment while driving. (Preaching) Auto retracting seat
belts are not entirely a good thing, as compared with the old manually
adjustable type, provide those are used correctly. Most people do not use
them correctly, and therefore the rest of use have to put up with these
newfangled types of gadgets that can go wrong. Price of progress, I
guess.
Earle
"griffin" <gryffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Does my Jeep have one of these?! I just watched one on MySpace and I was
> messing around with my seatbelt retractor with a screwdriver and some
> cleaner thinking something must have jammed in there. Now I'm kinda
scared
> that that thing could have gone off. Yikes.
>
> "Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>
>> You ever see the slow motion film of one of those going off with a
human
>> in the seat?
>>
>> Earle
>
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