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940T - Seat belt replacement without SRS? 900 1993

posted by  tpierce on  Wed Jan 20 12:16 CST 2010
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Hi,

My 1993 940T Wagon(218k) just got in a fender bender(<5 mph). The SRS warning light had been on for some time. For some reason, the airbag deployed, as did the front seat belt tensioners. The front seat belts now do not retract and can't be used.

Replacing the airbag, seat belts, and SRS computer is going to cost >$2000. The SRS computer is the big item.

Is it feasible to get seatbelts from a recycler and use them without hooking them up to the computer? I would not replace the airbag or the computer.

I am willing to live without the airbag(insert joke here), but not without the belts. Will the seat belts still lock in a crash and provide protection? Obviously the tensioners would never fire, but would the belts still provide the normal protection a seatbelt without tensioners would? Is this idea simply stupid?

The FAQ doesn't really address this question, and I didn't find any past threads on this subject.

Thanks for any advice. I really want to keep this car until at least a lunar unit is reached :-)

Tedd






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