Something new (rear seat related)?

[PJGross]

When I bought #490/1000, I was the 3rd owner. First, a lady in Boston, then a kid in Lowell, and then me. When I looked at the back seatbelts, I thought someone took out the seat and was too lazy to put the seatbelts through their holes. Of course, I was too lazy to put them in after I realized I'd have to loosen the bolts to get enough room...

Well, forward 19 years later. Today I was giving the seats their annual leather treatment, and decided I would take out the rear seat to clean and finally route those belts since I couldn't feel the hole with the seat back in place.

Well, well, well. What did I find but factory sealed holes in my seat back. Was this a dealer task that was overlooked? My car has never had the rear seat belts through the seat and I'm not going to change it now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Anyone else have this or did the dealer do their job and punch the holes in the fabric behind the seat?








A little quirk, I guess. Can't believe it took me that long to actually pull 3 bolts to check out what was back there.

-PJ

 

[PJGross]

Oh, the back:

 

[fuel]

They aren't holes the seat belts are meant to go through, they are pockets where you can curl up the belts and buckles and stow them away in there.

 

[PJGross]

Ha! ‘92 luxury right there. Well, that’s a nearly 20 year old mystery solved. I didn’t think they lined up very well anyway! 😂

 

[iceman69510]

I thought the same thing about them coming through about ten years ago, then realized it was as Fuel said. I think I saw a picture somewhere in a brochure once too that showed them tucked in.

Seems to make more sense for a car where the seat back could fold down, but the center arm rest does I guess.

 

[boostme]

That same thing happened to me!! Took apart to clean and when I reassembled, I couldn't figure it out. Left it alone and found a thread on here about that LOL