Seat Belt problem

[landroverkeith]

Morning all can someone give me a Helping hand plz.
The drivers seatbelt on my 98 disco just now decided it would be a good idea to lock up   and not release at all which is bad enuf, but just to annoy me even more i cant release the plastic trim on the post so i can have a fiddle with the doover at the bottom. is there a bolt im missing ? ive removed the rubber trim from the doors and pulled up the plastic trim on the carparts

however if fiddling with the doover is far to Technical i suppose i better pay out for a doover engineer  

many thanks keith

[TimM]

oooh, not tried that one yet!

As I haven't been there, I can't offer any obvious assistance (at the moment).

If nobody comes up with a good suggestion let me know and I will brave my Haynes Manual when I get home.

[Jimbo]

On my D2, the trim panel is held in place by the front and rear door rubbers (as you know !), and then the very bottom of the panel clips in to the metalwork using a metal spring-clip thing............it needed a bit of a tug to get it off !  :shock:  :shock:

Jim

[Range Rover Blues]

Just to be sure, you aren't parked on a hill are you?

[landroverkeith]

lol on a hill ?

 :oops:  i gotta ask  :oops:

[TUFFTEE]

Is It the Inertia roll that has locked up? or the other side where you clip the belt in? :shock:

[landroverkeith]

the inertia roll :(

[TUFFTEE]

In that case! it might be easier and a lot cheaper to source a second hand belt! than get your one repaired! They are not that hard to remove and re-fit!  :roll:

[landroverkeith]

:lol:  woo hooo i dont know wat ive done but sumwhere in the process of pulling, banging, smashing and swearing its free`d up again  8)  though i think i will do as u suggest and try to source a 2nd one there musta been a reason why it did it in first place and next time i mite not be soo lucky

thanks guys

[muddyweb]

May I politely suggest that if you need to replace it, you don't get a second hand one ;-)

You will have no idea of its history, use, storage, treatment, etc. etc.
For the sake of a few quid... get a new one.   Your life might depend on it working properly.

[landroverkeith]

:shock:  True considering mines been doused in mud etc over the short while ive owned it i wouldnt wanna pass it on to anyone else so fingers crossed that i dont need to sort out a new one  :roll:

[Sharpshooter]

:lol:  woo hooo i dont know wat ive done but sumwhere in the process of pulling, banging, smashing and swearing its free`d up again  8)  though i think i will do as u suggest and try to source a 2nd one there musta been a reason why it did it in first place and next time i mite not be soo lucky

thanks guys

9 out of 10 times, it locks up due to a foreign body. I.e. a stone or a coin. It is highly unlikely to fail, as they are so simple in operation. I would try to get it out, and give it a hoover out or such like.

It happends in my 110 all the time.

[Range Rover Blues]

lol on a hill ?

 :oops:  i gotta ask  :oops:

Being on a hill can cause the inertia system to lock the belt up, then it's a very frustrating gamne trying to unlock it again.

[landroverkeith]

 still playing up seems i better get a new one asap seems to free its self over nite though very frustrating  

parked on a fairly even surface too all the while so i suppose thats the hill theory out :( better pay hartwells a visit then  :shock: