Seat belt jammed

chrissy3634

I have a mini cooper ( original) and the seat belt on drivers side has jammed

I have taken it out of car and used WD40 -still jammed solid

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Supersonos

Phone your local garage or Mini dealership.

AdrianC

When you say "the seatbelt", do you mean the reel?

If so, then bear in mind it has to be the right way up to work properly. If it's tipped, it's designed to jam.

If you mean the latch, then please bear in mind it contains explosives...

brend10

Firstly, you should find out why your seat belt jammed. It can cause different reasons, and those reasons require different solutions.

chrissy3634

Thank for responses - its the reel

DiddyDavies

AdrianC said:

If you mean the latch, then please bear in mind it contains explosives...

That all depends on what the OP means when they state they have an original Mini Cooper.
If it's a "real" Mini (before BMW bought the name) then it won't have explosive seat belt tensioner.

caprikid1

If it is a real Mini Cooper I would suggest sending it off to a specialist to be reconditioned, they are not easy to obtain now.
There are plenty of specialist who may have a used one also.  I hate stripping these sorts of things and personally would not trust a damaged mechanism on my DIY skills, there is not a lot between you and the accident on an original cooper !!!.
What year car ?

AdrianC

DiddyDavies said:

AdrianC said:

If you mean the latch, then please bear in mind it contains explosives...

That all depends on what the OP means when they state they have an original Mini Cooper.
If it's a "real" Mini (before BMW bought the name) then it won't have explosive seat belt tensioner.

Ah, yes. Good point, well made.

If that is the case, then it simply isn't worth mucking about. Just replace the belts. Dirt cheap, and off the shelf.
For example... https://www.minisport.com/mini-interior-trim/mini-seat-belts-and-harnesses/mini-seat-belts.html

caprikid1

AdrianC, it's not quite that simple, the later coopers had Seatbelt tensioners fitted airbags etc. If they wish to maintain that functionality then they may wish to get the unit fixed. The belts also had short rigid stalks to mate the tensioners so you would need to change them as a pair to match. Depends on whether you are happy with a reduced level of safety and non originality. 

Car_54

DiddyDavies said:

AdrianC said:

If you mean the latch, then please bear in mind it contains explosives...

That all depends on what the OP means when they state they have an original Mini Cooper.
If it's a "real" Mini (before BMW bought the name) then it won't have explosive seat belt tensioner.

If it was "original" (1961), would it have had seatbelts at all?

caprikid1

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DiddyDavies said:

AdrianC said:

If you mean the latch, then please bear in mind it contains explosives...

That all depends on what the OP means when they state they have an original Mini Cooper.
If it's a "real" Mini (before BMW bought the name) then it won't have explosive seat belt tensioner.

If it was "original" (1961), would it have had seatbelts at all?

If it was a cooper of that Era it would be in a bank vault this time of year and not on the road.