Hi guys, and merry Christmas to all. The christmas present I received from my Fabia this year? A busted seatbelt!! :thumbdwn:

Basically i can pull the entire length of seatbelt out and I have no way of it going back in. Not only is this irritating but VERY unsafe because basically I'm driving without a seat belt. (Attached picture of end result). There's no tension in it whatsoever, it's just completely loose.

Just wondering if anyone knew a quick fix? Or could at least give me a probable cause? Or whether it's something a local garage could sort or whether I'll have to get it booked in at a Skoda dealer.

the passenger side front one on mine went, got a new seat belt from a breakers and fitted it myself, bit of a pain in the **** to do as the trim and aperture seals are a bit of a 'rubiks cube' puzzling fit, took me a few attempts to get everything fitted back correctly, but id do it again if needed

your seats are FILTHY !.......get em cleaned lol

You need a replacement belt, simple as really.

i can't get them clean, my fabric cleaner reacts badly with the white upholstry and that leaves the marks you can see in the picture.

I'm the complete opposite of handy, so looks like it's a job for Skoda. How much will the part and labour to sort it cost?? roughly??

Judging by what you said, it's unlikely but worth a try before you start ripping your car to bits:

Try cleaning the eye that the belt goes through on the B pillar, as sometimes they can get sticky enough to overcome the tension of the spring on the reel and stop the belt from retracting. Having said this, you'd still get resistance when you pulled the belt out, which it sounds like you didn't have at all... :( Even so, won't cost anything to check, so got to be worth doing, just in case IMHO!

try Auto Glym Interior Shampoo, ive used that on my seats and it doesnt cause any funny marks

a new belt from Skoda will be £100, i priced one up the other week, then the labour on top

my belt cost me £50 from a breakers but they are available for less, i could have paid £10 from someone on here

I am having the same problem on the Skoda I just bought yesterday (It's my first Skoda)

It worked fine during the test drive and it's only after I paid and drove it home that it now does not work.

Hopefully the dealer will be a decent bloke and let it be repaired under warranty. First I will give cleaning the 'eye that the belt goes through on the B pillar' a go and hope that helps.