Diesel Data: Automotive Repair

Front Seat






FRONT SEAT

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service, carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor. Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the Chrysler Mopar(R) Parts Catalog.





1. Position the front seat belt buckle (1) lower anchor to the inboard side of the seat cushion frame.
2. Reconnect the seat wire harness connector to the seat belt buckle switch pigtail wire connector.
3. Position the buckle lower anchor to the anchor bracket on the back of the inner seat track.
4. Carefully lift and twist the back of the rear console as necessary to install and tighten the screw (2) that secures the buckle lower anchor to the bracket. Tighten the screw to 45 Nm (33 ft. lbs.).
5. Align the retainers that secure the rear center floor console to the front console, then push the back of the rear console forward far enough to engage the retainers.
6. Install and tighten the nut into the rear cup holder cavity that secures the console to the weld stud on the floor panel. Tighten the nut securely.
7. Reinstall the liner into the rear cup holder cavity at the rear of the center floor console.
8. Release the parking brake.
9. Reconnect the battery negative cable.