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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: Big Rich on October 08, 2007, 17:52:26

Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Big Rich on October 08, 2007, 17:52:26: 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 Â£101.88 :shock:

Can this be right?

Rich
Title: Re: Belt Up!!
Post by: auf_wiedersehen_pet on October 08, 2007, 17:59:46: Quote from: "Big Rich"
:o Â£101.88 :shock:

Can this be right?

Rich

I doubt it! I'm sure the usual big suppliers will have much better deals.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: J.D. on October 08, 2007, 18:00:38: 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.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: clbarclay on October 08, 2007, 18:16:46: :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.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Evilgoat on October 08, 2007, 19:43:22: Speak to Baz, Muddymachine at the end of the week. He was breaking a dico. might be that horrible blue though.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Big Rich on October 08, 2007, 19:48:24: Eblag Â£20.01.

Thanks everyone.

Rich
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Ja1983 on October 08, 2007, 19:48:37: goole + local scrapyards = Â£Â£saver! :wink:
Title: seatbelt
Post by: lurch_917 on October 08, 2007, 20:04:16: 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
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Tyke on October 08, 2007, 22:33:37: 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 . . . . :wink:
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Darren on October 09, 2007, 09:00:11: 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.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Mudlark on October 09, 2007, 13:16:53: Quote from: "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:

Interesting statement - would this mean that every time you bought a secondhand car you changed the seatbelts? :shock: :shock:
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Darren on October 09, 2007, 14:34:13: 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.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Range Rover Blues on October 09, 2007, 14:37:58: 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.
Title: Belt Up!!
Post by: Big Rich on October 09, 2007, 14:39:37: 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