>Roger G. Bolick wrote:
> > Thankfully, he was wearing his OEM TR6 seatbelt. The retractor
>didn't
> > catch. It caught him as he face-planted the steering wheel and saved
> > his life, but ?????
>
>Good story Roger. IMHO, I am very doubtful about the safety of the OEM TR6
>"inertia" seatbelts, ie, the ones that require you to be driving and then hit
>the brakes to test the inertia mechanism. When I pulled apart the retractors
>and saw the small amounts of corrosion and the tolerances required for the
>mechanism to operate correctly, I ditched them and replaced them with a 3-pt
>shoulder/lap belt available at most of the vendors. In time, I will
>replace them with a 5-pt harness.
>
>I urge all folk with the original retractors to examine them very carefully,
>or even replace them (you should replace the webbing if original anyway!).
>I beleive we had a thread on this group some weeks ago, to the effect that
>there are no companies out there who will refurbish the OEM retractors.
>Am I right? If so, that should be sufficient warning.
>
> Safety first.
>
> Shane Ingate in San Diego
On the subject of seatbelts, I plan on spending the extra $$ to get the 3
point seatbelts and will probably put in a rollbar. These are small cars, I
personally am not concerned ( I've already totalled a spitfire, in 1975)
but I would never forgive myself if anything happened to my wee copilot>
especially if I could have made things safer? Maybe some food for thought?
Phil Smith
69 TR6
" More Dreams than money "
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