Pixels
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Rep for anyone willing to take their car apart and post pics for me! I promise it's easier than installing a carseat.
I have a 2002 Honda Civic. I just got my car back from the body shop following my crash. I know that in order to do the repairs, they had to remove and reinstall the rear seat assembly. This morning I went to reinstall DD's carseat and noticed that one of the female buckle stalks is way shorter than it was. I know for sure that it wasn't like that before because I've installed the Radian FFing seatbelt in that position, and it required twisting the belt stalk. It's so short right now that I can't twist anything. I sent it back to the body shop, and they looked at it, said that it's an idiot-proof design so you can't possibly put it back together wrong, and that it must have been that way before. Sigh. I'm going to have to prove to them that they're wrong, and preferably show them how it should be. I would do it myself, but I don't have a torque wrench and frankly don't feel like fixing their mistake. They got paid for the work, they should do it right.
My back seat before the crash and repairs:
Today:
See the difference?
To see the seatbelt anchors, you have to take out the lower seat cushion. Grab the cushion at the front edge, in the middle of the outboard seating position, and give a firm tug up. It will pop free. Do the same on the other outboard seating position, and then you can move the whole seat bottom out of the way. This is what mine looks like now:
You can see the black, L-shaped bracket that the seatbelts are anchored to. The one on the driver's side has one side of the L pointing up (towards the back of the vehicle) and the other towards the center of the vehicle. I am guessing the passenger's side one should be the same way, but they installed it rotated 90 degrees.
To put the seat cushion back on, slide it into place. Make sure you get all your seatbelt buckles up above the seat cushion and not twisted. Then, line up the tabs with the slots at the front of the cushion on each side, and give a firm push down directly over them to snap them into place.
I have a 2002 Honda Civic. I just got my car back from the body shop following my crash. I know that in order to do the repairs, they had to remove and reinstall the rear seat assembly. This morning I went to reinstall DD's carseat and noticed that one of the female buckle stalks is way shorter than it was. I know for sure that it wasn't like that before because I've installed the Radian FFing seatbelt in that position, and it required twisting the belt stalk. It's so short right now that I can't twist anything. I sent it back to the body shop, and they looked at it, said that it's an idiot-proof design so you can't possibly put it back together wrong, and that it must have been that way before. Sigh. I'm going to have to prove to them that they're wrong, and preferably show them how it should be. I would do it myself, but I don't have a torque wrench and frankly don't feel like fixing their mistake. They got paid for the work, they should do it right.
My back seat before the crash and repairs:
Today:
See the difference?
To see the seatbelt anchors, you have to take out the lower seat cushion. Grab the cushion at the front edge, in the middle of the outboard seating position, and give a firm tug up. It will pop free. Do the same on the other outboard seating position, and then you can move the whole seat bottom out of the way. This is what mine looks like now:
You can see the black, L-shaped bracket that the seatbelts are anchored to. The one on the driver's side has one side of the L pointing up (towards the back of the vehicle) and the other towards the center of the vehicle. I am guessing the passenger's side one should be the same way, but they installed it rotated 90 degrees.
To put the seat cushion back on, slide it into place. Make sure you get all your seatbelt buckles up above the seat cushion and not twisted. Then, line up the tabs with the slots at the front of the cushion on each side, and give a firm push down directly over them to snap them into place.