Belt Up!!

[Big Rich]

My 200 Disco is in for MOT but has failed on the front passenger seat belt.

Phone round a few places. Seemes its a Land Rover only part but the independant place can get one but its......

 :o £101.88  :shock:

Can this be right?

Rich

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

:o £101.88  :shock:

Can this be right?

Rich

I doubt it! I'm sure the usual big suppliers will have much better deals.

[J.D.]

Any retracting seatbelt will fit, as long as it is aproved for use in this country and is the correct length I would have thought.

[clbarclay]

:shock:

Get a second hand one.

I wouldn't be surprised if RRC ones fitted and there must be plenty of them going spare in good condition.

[Evilgoat]

Speak to Baz, Muddymachine at the end of the week. He was breaking a dico. might be that horrible blue though.

[Big Rich]

Eblag £20.01.

Thanks everyone.

Rich

[Ja1983]

goole + local scrapyards = ££saver!  

[lurch_917]

chec your breakers yards for rovers i mean the 200 disco was a bit of a missmatch of rover parts ie: metro controls and stearing wheel  lights off a ldv sherpa type van its worth a try

[Tyke]

Guy next door to my mate is breaking a 200 at the mo . . . . I'll point him at this post . . . all he wants is the engigne for his 110 so everything has to go . . . .  

[Darren]

Personally, I'd never trust a second hand seat belt - you just don't know whether it's been stressed and when you really need it is not the time to find out :shock:

Securon, available from Partco amongst others, do seat belts to fit most vehicles at more realistic prices.

[Mudlark]

Personally, I'd never trust a second hand seat belt - you just don't know whether it's been stressed and when you really need it is not the time to find out :shock:

Interesting statement - would this mean that every time you bought a secondhand car you changed the seatbelts? :shock:  :shock:

[Darren]

Clearly not,  but it's more realistic to know the condition of a second hand car, assuming current MoT. A belt on its' own has virtually no provenance.

A belt removed from a known scrapper might be a better bet, but a scrapper that's been in an accident wouldn't fill me with confidence.

I understand the desire to save a few quid by using second hand parts and like a bargain as much as the next guy, but compromising on basic safety or mission critical stuff just seems like tempting fate to me.

[Range Rover Blues]

I think that's the healthy balance TBH, if you know the car to some degree then it's as safe as the belts in any S/H car but off a shelf at a breaker's yard? who knows how long it's been stored in the damp.

If it helps, most RRC are brown.

[Big Rich]

The belts I have bought are from a Scraped disco. Only the engine, axels and seats were needed and the rest surplus to his build.

Rich