Front and Rear Seat Belt Retractors

FRONT AND REAR SEAT BELT RETRACTORS

Front and rear seat belt retractors will lock if the vehicle exceeds 15 degrees angle, exceeds 0.60 g of deceleration force, or the webbing is pulled out of the retractor rapidly. Both front and rear retractors will lock under hard cornering or while descending a winding downhill grade. The retractors may also lock 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

1. Remove retractor assembly.
2. Tilt retractor slowly.
3. Verify belt can be pulled out of retractor at an inclination of 15 degrees or less and that it cannot be pulled out at over 45 degrees of inclination.

STATIC TEST SEAT BELTS WITH CHILD HOLD-OUT MECHANISM (CHOM)FEATURE

Front Passenger Seat

Rear Outboard Seats

1. Pull seat belt all the way out of retractor.
2. Feed a few inches of belt back into retractor and listen for audible clicking of child hold-out mechanism (CHOM) system.
3. Verify belt cannot be pulled out of the retractor.
4. Feed seat belt all the way into retractor and verify that it returns to normal operating conditions.