Front and Rear Seat Belt Retractors: Notes
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2003 Saturn Vue. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
Front and rear seat belt retractors will lock under the following conditions:
- The vehicle exceeds a 15-degree angle
- The vehicle exceeds 0.60 g of deceleration force
- The webbing is pulled out of the retractor rapidly
- During hard cornering or while descending a winding downhill grade
- While braking to stop at a downhill intersection
All retractors will unlock when 25.4 mm (1 in) of the belt is fed back into the retractor.
Static Test
- Remove the retractor assembly.
- Tilt the retractor slowly.
- Verify that the belt can be pulled out of the retractor at an inclination of 15 degrees or less, but not at an inclination of 45 degrees or more.