At 1:54 PM -0400 4/18/98, Gernot Vonhoegen wrote:
>I would opt for new ones if I were you for good reasons the sale of used
>seatbelts is in some countrys forbidden. You never know what happened to
>the car, it might have had a previous accident that had been repaired
>without changing the belts. The material stretches to a certain amount
>but not further. (I know I should not scare anyone.... I know I should
>not scare anyone.....etc...)
>Just my opinion.
>
>Gernot
True, but my budget rarely permits me to toss money at new items. The car I
harvested the seat belts from had two things in it's favor- it wasn't
crashed- the engine had blown. Secondly, it was obvious that the seat belts
had never been used. How do you tell? Easy, just move the belt out of the
retractor. If the slight fade in color stops right at the retraction point,
then it's a belt that's spent it life retracted, not across some one's lap
with a larger area exposed to the sun. BTW- how many of you are driving 8+
year old everyday cars? Any one planning on tossing out the seatblets
'cause they're used?
PS>Just occured to me how to spot the unused seatblets in a crashed car-
look for the head sized holes in the windsheild!
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