Estate centre inertial reel seat belt jammed

[Doggy]

My bro has this problem on his D8 estate - the rear seat / belts are never used, but he noticied it the other day and the MOT's due in a week or so.......

Anybody had, or sorted something similar?
Or know how to get at it?

Any suggestions gratefully received, (I have a feeling muggins will get roped in eventually).

[waue1978]

I did this with Wiggy's old back seat mate. Not as bad a job as I first thought to get at, but not too sure about fixing the mechanism:

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[Bailes1992]

Just unbolt the belt from the chassis under the rear bench and let ir retract.
Worked a treat on my D8!

[Doggy]

Thanks for the info & suggestions guys, now we have some idea where to look.

Maybe I should have said, it's fully retracted and doesn't want to come out to play.

[mjb]

Just unbolt the belt from the chassis under the rear bench and let ir retract.
Worked a treat on my D8!

Two things of note - one is that you should let it retract with the car on the flat and the seat locked upright. Second is that if the bolt's seized, there's a risk that the captive nut underneath the car could come free while trying this - as happened with my tubby estate.

[Doggy]

Thanks for the tip Matt, I'll pass it along.