Recently I've noticed getting back into my car only to open the door to see the seat belt bound up in the door jam or hanging loosely. Now that I notice this, when I let go of the seat belt and open the door, I have to manually feed it through the arm and then it winds back up. Anyone else have a weak retractor or a fix for this? I assume I'll just have to pull the panel and clean it out and re-grease but does anyone have any tips to make this more painless?

 

Clean the junk off the d-ring and whatever else the belt slides through. Also clean the seat belt itself with some general purpose cleaner.

 

Is this D ring inside the paneling? If you mean the belt presenter by my shoulder, that things immaculate. I think I'll take apart the panel this weekend and see what I find in there.