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. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Apply the parking brake, raising the brake lever to its most upward position.
3. Remove the liner from the rear cup holder cavity at the rear of the center floor console.
4. Remove the nut from the cup holder cavity that secures the console to the weld stud on the floor panel.
5. Pull the back of the rear console rearward far enough to disengage the retainers that secure it to the front console.
6. Carefully lift and twist the back of the rear console as necessary to access the screw (2) that secures the seat belt buckle lower anchor to the anchor bracket on the back of the inner seat track.
7. Remove the screw that secures the buckle lower anchor to the bracket.
8. Disconnect the seat wire harness connector from the seat belt buckle switch pigtail wire connector.
9. Remove the seat belt buckle from the front seat.