Seat Belt will not retract

If you have any warranty left on the drive train of your vehicle, seat belts or any other safety item will be replaced by dealer under warranty. Worth checking into. Suzuki Grand Vitara's seat belts quit retracting in short time, I had mine replaced twice under warranty.

Saint Augustine wrote:

DrewE wrote:
Check to see if any of the upholstery in the cab area is impinging on the free movement of the belt. That seems to be the main cause of this sort of difficulty in my class C...though presumably the fact that the seat belt mechanism and return spring are approaching 20 years of age doesn't help anything.

Where might you buy new ones?

I assume you mean buying new springs/mechanisms? I've never tried, but I would imagine a Ford dealer could easily obtain them (in my case, at least, since I have a Ford chassis). They're the standard E-series parts. Perhaps standard auto parts places or JC Whitney etc. could also supply them.

SAR Tracker wrote:
slowly pull it all the way out, and remove any kinks, dog hair, french fries, or other things that may be interfering. If that fails, remove the plastic roller cover and clean the mechanism out.

The seatbelt retracts nicely if I first pull it through the part on the top.

DrewE wrote:
Check to see if any of the upholstery in the cab area is impinging on the free movement of the belt. That seems to be the main cause of this sort of difficulty in my class C...though presumably the fact that the seat belt mechanism and return spring are approaching 20 years of age doesn't help anything.

Where might you buy new ones?

Check to see if any of the upholstery in the cab area is impinging on the free movement of the belt. That seems to be the main cause of this sort of difficulty in my class C...though presumably the fact that the seat belt mechanism and return spring are approaching 20 years of age doesn't help anything.

slowly pull it all the way out, and remove any kinks, dog hair, french fries, or other things that may be interfering. If that fails, remove the plastic roller cover and clean the mechanism out.