Floppy rear seatbelts

Hello all,

I have a 2014 Crewmax with 120k on it and no accidents. Recently, when my wife was sitting in the back seats we found out that both rear seatbelts will extend but then not retract. So I have two floppy rear seatbelts which renders the rear seats useless. Two questions,

1: Any ideas what could be wrong?
2: Is this worth messing around with myself or take it to a shop?

 

Those belts definitely are non functional.

They will need replaced or rebuilt.

If you are at all handy, they are easy to remove.

I send mine to: myairbags.com

They can rebuild them for less than what it cost to replace them.

 

The belt could have over turned inside the housing. The return coil is very low in the two panels that cover the body. So there’s room for the belt to get twisted. You can remove the upper and lower panels and check it out. If you don’t want to remove the seats, it can be done by removing the upper panels, and just opening the lower panels to see. I’ve been able to remove the whole seatbelt without taking out seats or the lower panels.

 

yeah I consider myself somewhat handy. obviously not a master mechanic or home builder.

 

When you say remove the upper panel, Im guessing you mean the beige color part where the seatbelt goes into the C post in the second photo i posted?

 

Correct, mostly.

To gain access, you have to remove the door sill plate. It just pops up with pressure fit clips.

After the sill plate is removed, you can pop off the lower "c" pillar cover. Once that is out, you will see 1, 10mm bolt and 1 pressure fit clip that holds the upper "c" piller cover. I'm going by memory, there be a 10mm bolt at the top behind a pop off cover.

The plastic pry tools really help with removing the panels, so think about stopping by HF and grabbing a set.

Now you have complete access to the seatbelt assembly.

 

anyone know where a video would be on this repair? been searching the youtube with no luck.

 

i've always heard that toyota will warranty repair seatbelts with no mileage limits. not sure how true it is, but have you checked with the dealer?

 

I'd start by taking off the panels. It may just need an alignment of the belt .

 

THIS. Just took off the panels and they popped back into place. Weird but grateful that was and easy repair. 1 10mm bolt behind the side curtain air bag symbol and some small clips.

 

Glad you got it knocked out.

Only reason I remember the sequence is because I just recently had yo the job to replace my side curtain air bags. The ' bags go from the A piller to the C pillar.

Damn near the entire interior panels have to come out to do the job.