Has anyone had any seat belt trouble? My passenger seat (front) will lock and click, and won't release unless you undo it and rebuckle. I know that usually the belt should lock when the brakes are applied - but this happens all the time, and you have to constantly adjust it by undoing it and rebuckling.
I didn't think much of it, but now that you mention it it does happen to me as well.
I know there is a feature (for child seat restraint) where when you pull out the entire belt it will click its way back in lock position and the only way to go back in normal mode is to completely undo the belt. But as you mentioned this anoying locking also happened to me (on front passenger) for no reason at all (without pulling belt all the way out)... very strange. I will also inquire at my next dealer appointment.
Just got back from our first road trip to Banff and experienced the seat belt lock-up.... that is, only 2 of the 4 of us experienced it. Only the seat belts on the right-side of the vehicle (front and back) locked up.
Yes indeed checked with Dealer,
It has to do with the belt angle during pull out apparently.
I think I saw something about this in the Electronic Service Manual, but I did not have time to fully read up on it.
There could be the answer to this belt lock up...
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I wonder if there could be a break-in issue. I had this problem at first, but have not seen it recently. It problem belts apeared in sucession of use. First it was the front passengers, then the rear passenger right side, then finally the rear left passenger. All noticed during a highway trip. Again, no problems since (knock on wood)
Seat belt lock-up is found on other Nissan's as well. My 02 Altima has this problem, which I have had checked and re-checked by the dealer, yet they couldn't replicate the problem. So one day, I happened to get into a rear passenger seat, and disovered two actions that seem to prompt the problem:
a. quickly pulling the seat belt out almost to its limit
b. quickly pulling the seat belt out and upward rather than out and downward.
Either action employs the ratchet locking mechanism. I also realize that it only happens in passenger seats, and not in the driver's seat. So the next time I was at the dealer for scheduled maintenance, I mentioned it and the service manager checked through some service manuals for me. It turns out that this is apparently part of the constuction of the belt recoil mechanism by design.
So - now we pull out the belts out in a slower, outward and slightly downward motion, and we avoid the lockup altogether.
My guess is that Nissan uses the same belt recoil mechanisms in all it's vehicles, but may be implemented slightly differently so as to accentuate or eliminate the problem in various models.
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