Standard Procedure - Seat Belt Anchor Release
To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service, carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor. Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the Mopar® Parts Catalog. Failure to follow these instructions may result in possible serious or fatal injury.
Use two Allen key wrenches and the following steps in sequence to disconnect the front seat belt lower anchor latch plate (3) from the lower anchor buckle (1).
- Insert an Allen key wrench (2) of the appropriate size (7/64 inch, 1/8 inch or 3 mm are recommended) into the outer hole at the bottom of the anchor buckle housing far enough to compress and hold compressed the internal lock feature of the buckle.
- While pushing the anchor buckle lightly downward to relieve the tension of the buckle latch mechanism on the latch plate, insert a second Allen key wrench (4) of the appropriate size (7/64 inch, 1/8 inch or 3 mm are recommended) into the hole in the side of the buckle housing far enough to compress the internal latch plate release feature of the buckle.
- Pull the seat belt anchor latch plate out of the anchor buckle.
- Remove both Allen key wrenches from the holes in the anchor buckle housing.