Safety Belt Pretensioners
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2005 Mercury Montego, 2005 Ford Freestyle, and 2005 Ford Five Hundred. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
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If a safety belt retractor pretensioner has deployed, a new overlay wiring harness (14A614) must be installed. Make sure to follow the installation instructions that are included in the service kit.
As part of the SRS, the safety belt retractors are equipped with pretensioners. The pretensioners remove excess slack from the safety belt webbing. The pretensioners are activated by the RCM when the module detects an impact event force exceeding a programmed limit.