Re: [Amc-list] FW: Re: [AMC-DelMarVA] Re: Sound mats and belts.

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like Gremlin/Hornet seat belts.  AMCers should be used to belts that don't retract, dent the threshold plates, skin up the door panels.  

Joe Fulton


--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Amc-list] FW: Re: [AMC-DelMarVA] Re: Sound mats and belts.
> To: "AMC List" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:13 PM
> An FYI to junkyard seatbelt  hunters!
> 
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> From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: AMC-DelMarVA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [AMC-DelMarVA] Re: Sound mats and belts.
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:25:14 +0000
> > yeah, true, one brand I would avoid at all costs is
> anything made by Nissan up 
> > thru at least 1998! 
> > They suck, plan and simple, they do not retract on
> their own.
> > Vehicles we have owned and experienced this on.
> > 98 Altima
> > 92 Stanza
> > 88 truck
> > 87 Pulsar
> > 86.5 truck
> > 83 Pulsar
> > evry frikkin one of them SUCKED!
> > Cars great, belts will fall out, get caught int he
> door jambs, dent doors, tear 
> > door panels, you name it.
> > 
> > Fair warning to those hunting belts in junkyards!
> > 
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > Morgantown, WV
> > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> > 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
> > " I realize that death is inevitable.
> > I just don't want to be around when it happens!
> "
> > 
> >  -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> > From: Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Mark said:
> > > 
> > > >Also need 3 point seatbelts in Charcoal.
> Probably go wth new ones, anyone 
> > have 
> > > preferred vendor? I'm tired of the originals
> with their funky multipart 
> > > connections etc; 
> > > >  What about rear shoulder belts in a 69
> American sedan? I know it can be 
> > done. 
> > > Anyone do it and have memories of the experience?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I've thought about this myself.  I'd do a
> junkyard jaunt and pick up whichever 
> > > kinds of belts that were the correct color and
> seemed to work well on cars 
> > I've 
> > > owned in the past.  For instance, the belts in
> our Kia minivan have the 
> > perfect 
> > > tension IMO and are extremely easy to use; plus
> they're placed "just right".  
> > If 
> > > I could find one in a junkyard, that's what
> I'd use for a retrofit.
> > > 
> > > I'm sure most other modern cars are
> "converging" in seat belt technology; 
> > > they're all getting really, really good as
> far as useability is concerned.
> > > 
> > > -- Marc
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > 
> 
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