I need to replace the driver side seat belt. It’s frayed and my MoT test is due. The reel is inside the pillar trim. Does anyone have knowledge or experience of how to remove the trim without damage or setting off the airbag thing in the upper section?

any help appreciated.

 

 

How frayed is it? If it's a few straggley bits on an otherwise good belt, it is possible to tidy them up with a cigarette lighter. 

Sadly it’s a bit worse. It is the edge where it goes through the buckle when the driver is using it. At the test last year the tester did warn me. He said it had passed but would not pass again unless is it was replaced. Naturally, I promptly forgot about it which is unsurprising as the car was parked up for months on end and my legendary capacity to forget things.

I have emailed my local dealer for the price of the part but they have not replied. I can see then secondhand on eBay but I have never done well buying from scrappers.

 

Fair play. I've not worked on that part of a roomster, but normally there's two separate bits of trim. The lower plastic one covers the belt, and the upper one (normally part of the soft headlining) covers the curtain bag. I don't know if it will be the same on your car?

 

On the fabias, the seatbelt trim has a lip down the sides that sits in the door rubber, and 4? Triangular shaped trim clips that push into the door pillar on the cars shell. It's worth using something plastic to release the trim from the door rubber, then if you want, you can take that bit of rubber off the door frame so the trim isn't twisted, and run a small prybar trim tool up the back of the trim. Get it as near as you can to the clips, then it's a straight pull away from the pillar to release them.

 

If you're a bit more fatalistic, as I am, to can also just wiggle and pull the trim off the pillar.

 

All of the above, assuming it's the same as a fabia.