pdpMIATA

Friend was getting out of my car today and his seatbelt never retracted. He of course obliviously closed the door and the seatbelt punctured a hole into the door panel! =[

I called Infiniti about the part and its over $700 with labor...

Should I try to push this under warranty? I did research and saw other members have had similar problems with their verts...but I have a 2011 6mt sedan...didn't find much there.
I know the passenger side seat belt has always rattled but not retracting is new to me...thanks for any input everyone.

san~man

I highly doubt they'll cover this

pdpMIATA

I guessing as much but other people had problems with their verts, same problem too and warranty work done no problem. Just not sure about sedans...

blackfunk

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This is why you tip your local master tech. Can't stress this enough. I bought that man's love LOL, but I never paid for any repairs though.

zdubin

I have the vert and had this done under warranty. There's a real TSB for it on the vert and the seatbelts didn't retract much at all. I had 12 dings on the driver side door panel and 4 on the passenger side. Both door panels were changed with both seatbelts. Check if there's a TSB for the sedan seatbelts as well, then they have to do it.

RISKY GUY

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Not true.
Mine were replaced twice, on 2 seperate times.
The seatbelt tensioner gets all gummed up with crap.
1st time it happened, I blamed myself even though dealer replaced with no problem.
The 2nd time I knew something was wrong.
Again, another door panel reloaded under warranty.

Di3s3l_power

can you take a picture?

devil2k

Mine got punctured within 3 days of ownership. I almost cried. Something is not right with the mechanism. It never happened in my $20k Mazda.

pdpMIATA

Ill post a picture up when I get back to her tonight...Its not a huge gash but the seatbelt clip can fit right in with ease.

Thanks for everyones input...makes me feel more confident in attempting to get this done through warranty. Ill just use some charm with the tech haha

warped ideas

Jesus, thats one of my all time pet peives with any vehicle. I hate it!

pdpMIATA

Shrugs...I've never had it happen to me before so it was actually quite surprising when it did.

pdpMIATA

UPDATE:
Getting this fixed under warranty. Not sure if there is a tsb out for this but technician deemed the seatbelt retractor defective..hence why it was able to get caught in the door. They ordered me two new seatbelt assemblies (possibly just retractors) and a passenger side door panel. No luck on getting two fresh door panels haha.

Just thought I'd throw this out there for the community to know that you can get this fixed. I didn't do much more than just ask and they said sure. Shrugs.

Best of luck everyone.