This morning I pulled the seatbelt on my car a little too hard and a little too far and now the top part won't retract...its maxed out. This weekend I'll take off the sail panel by the rear speaker and see if I can get at it. Any advice? Has this happened to anybody else. I'm not a seatbelt expert...so once I get access to the retraction unit, how can I fix that part?

 

i do know there were 2 recalls on the 3rd gen camaro seatbelts, 1 for the retensioner, and one for the front buckles

i have shiny new front buckles. but the bastards wont fix my retantioner prob

 

ive been driving with fully exteneded seatbelt for years my aftermarket headlinder wont let them retract. dont worry about no big deal as long as you have it on for those ****** cops

 

Thanks guys - I'm gunna search the net for recalls on the retensioner - just started tearing the car apart inside trying to find the tensionser unit - its gunna be a big project b/c the headliner is saggy by the seatbelts - may try and kill 2 birds with one stone on this. Any suggestions for the headliner?

 

whatever you do dont order a headliner from 1a automotive its such a orrible fit you need sheetmetal snips to make a chop job out of it and it still barley fits. it wasnt designed right the wholes dont line up and it still sags in the back around the t tops area. it crushed my roof wires now i have no horn or power hatch but its such a bitch to do id rather ride with no horn.

 

Was able to fix the problem - for anyone else who has the eternally extended driver's seatbelt - I dropped the left rear corner of the headliner a little (had to remove a bunch of interior panels - plastic all over the place - this cheap stuff was made to be snapped into place once, not disassembled and re-assembled a bunch of times!). Then coming through the hatch in the back I jammed a screwdriver into the tensioner unit at what looked like a ratchet mechanism and it retracted. If you can do it without removing the A-Pillar molding, even better, that piece is a real PITA!