Need help with the rear seats in my 2006 C220 Estate

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Hi guys,

Happy new year.

I'm really sorry if this is in the wrong section but I didn't know where else to post.

Basically I went to pick something up last night for a friend and had to put my rear seats down. when I got home and was all finishing up and went to fold the left rear seat back up it wouldn't move. The seat belt has become jammed and is preventing it from moving. I can raise it a little but not much.

I took the carpet of the back of it this morning and all I can see is one bolt that holds something in but it doesn't appear to be the seat belt mechanism.

Can anyone help? as a last resort I'll have to cut the seat belt.


I searched google and it come up with a few threads but they didn't sounds like they were related. I'd appreciate some help.

Cheers,!
 

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may sound daft but a picture may be helpful to see where your reffering to, the only thing i could guess it to try and extend the seatbelt with your hands to give you some slack?
 
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I will take some photos when I go back out to my car but for now I will try to describe.

Ok so the seats are currently folded down. And you have the smaller seat and the bigger seat which makes up 2 thirds of the whole back seat.

the problem I have is that when I try to fold the seats back to their original position, the seat belt is jammed. It wont release.

You know if you get a seat belt and pull it very quickly and it locks? well this is what it is like. It has locked and will not let me put the seat back as it was because the seat belt stops and prevents the seat from being lifted up.

I took the back of the seat carpet off and there was also a plastic plate which I removed with some screws hoping to be able to access the seat belt mechanism, but sadly this was not the case.

Currently I have to keep the sears folded down because they will not go back to how they should. I got a bit frustrated with it earlier on and was tempted to cut the seat belt. I wouldn't be so bothered realty but I keep tools in the boot of the car covered up and now they're exposed. nothing valuable, just some tools I keep if I ever break down then, well, you get the idea.

Couldn't happen at a worse time either. The day before I fly to Ireland for work.

Cheers,
Joe
 

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If it is only the seat belt stopping it, you need to sit on the back rest and push downward and the seat belt should free itself off. the other way is to remove the bolt in the door pillar for the top of the belt.
 
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It was the middle seat belt that was causing the issue and I've found out why. The mechanism is dead. the belt wouldn't release at all.

I even removed the bottom part of the seats hoping that it would allow the top half to go lower and give the belt more slack then release it, but no, sadly that was not the case.

After nearly 2 hours of messing with it I decided to cut the seat belt. When I cut it the belt rolled back in and wouldn't pull out. I'll have to do something about getting that fixed or the seat replaced.

I did make a little video which I was going to post but it's too late now. The damage has been done :(

At least I have my seats back to more or less normal with the exception of the middle seat belt.

Thanks for your help guys.
I suppose now I'll have to look at getting that fixed.
 

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You be loads around at the breakers, they are all the same from year 1
 

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I,m still confused? I cant understand how the seatbelts can get jammed up in the first place just by lowering the seats and where abouts they would become jammed
A pic would certainly help !
 

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I,m still confused? I cant understand how the seatbelts can get jammed up in the first place just by lowering the seats and where abouts they would become jammed
A pic would certainly help !

The seatbelts do get jammed if they are moved by an inexperienced person who is not gifted with the infinite patience required to replace them. The seat belt "pinning" arrangement is similar to an advanced study course in fine embroidery:

- It needs to be handled with extremely light care and if it goes wrong you either need a female (or perhaps a small child) to patiently sort it...

- Alternatively you can adopt the "bloke" approach and keep trying other ways by pulling and pushing and thumping it while swearing at it.
- A lot.
- Loudly.
- N.B.: Very loudly.

Do however, beware that this latter method is not for the faint hearted and has been known on occasion to increase the severity of the problem leading to the seatbelt becoming more deeply entrapped in the place to which it has been incorrectly moved (by the person who had the temerity to move the seat in the first place).

- Note that to be effective, the language adopted needs to be particularly bad - the bluer it gets, the better you will feel. But it will unfortunately remain stuck, until either chance intervenes and the belt just falls into place (PLACE YOUR BETS NOW PLEASE!) or someone else - almost certainly a female (or a small child) has a go and gently, methodically puts it back for you. This last method is the most pleasurable because your're not directly involved but you do have to be prepared for repeated doses of the "I told you so" comments and irritable argument that follows...

I had mine jammed on the OSR recently, and it somehow went under the plastic clip (that it's supposed to go into for "storage") and as a result the seat would not shut and neither would the (expletive deleted) door. It took half an hour of increasingly bad tempered wriggling around until (purely by chance) it went back into place and I could shut the seat and close the door. I actually think my bad language probably solved the issue but SWMBO (who didn't even touch the thing but is used to my occasional tirades when things go wrong) insists that it probably would have taken less time if I had more patience. Huh!!

I am generous to a fault and accept that there is a miniscule possibility that that just might be true I suppose, but then, I'm a bloke.:???:

Maintenance Tips

Having got it sorted and back into place, you need to use one of the many preventative maintenance methods available* to ensure it doesn't happen again. But if it does (as it probably will) see above to achieve the cure.

*Ongoing maintenance mainly comprises following strict engineering solutions i.e.: do not fold the seat again and leave the belt well alone in order to ensure it remains in place which is what it was designed to do in the first place...
 

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