Automotive Carpet Replacement: Remove Seat Belt Latches

Video Transcript

"Okay, in this segment we're going to cover removing the driver's side seatbelt fasteners, and basically they're fastened with two bolts and they're going to be a seventeen millimeter head. Okay, to get the accessibility for the inside latch just kind of pry it back with your finger. You pull back and expose the bolt, and slide the cover up--the actual cable assembly on it, and you'll have a good accessibility to the bolt. Seventeen millimeter. I want to break it free first with a ratchet so I had more torque. Some of these will have a retainer on them to keep them together, some don't. We're going to set that aside, and if we take that cover back down and put back over, it'll hold the bolt in there and keep them together while it's not being used. For angle wise, I'll show you on the passenger side--gives a little bit better view from our current filming location. You've got a plastic cap here that provides a cover and shield for the nut or bolt, and that's where you use a small screwdriver, just stick it in behind it and pry that cap out. Once you've got the cap removed you've got access to the bolt, and you just go ahead and pull that out, and then this portion of the seatbelt is removed. Okay, after you remove that latch then we just want to apply the same procedure to remove the other two on the other side of the vehicle, and we'll have the restraint system removed and out of our way. So please watch our next segment, we're going to cover removing the door insert for driver's side, both front and rear."