This post is for those really "anal" car owners obsessed with fixing even the most minor malfunctioning item on their cars (probably most people in this forum!)

For 123 wagons and other cars with similar items....

I developed a fix for the annoying little broken rubber bungees that ar supposed to hold the rear seat belt receptacles up. Not that big of a deal, but I hated having those holes in the rear seat without functioning bungees there....not to mention the minor inconvenience of having the seatbelts fall down when the seat is lifted. Here is how I fixed it.

I got a length of black bungee cord material from REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.)...not the thick heavy stuff....the stuff that is about 3/16" in diam. I just tied a simple loop about 3" long, and I passed the loop through a piece of rubber with a hole in it....like a rubber stopper (I used a rubber "foot" used to attach to the bottom of a table leg...already has a small screw hole in it.) I trimmed the rubber thing to be rectangular and slightly bigger than the seat hole so that it would hold in there but could be removed if needed. Stuff the rubber in there and, voila, there it is....put the loop around the whole buckle and it works like a charm and looks nice!!

Mark

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1984 300TD Wagon, 407,800 mi (current daily driver)
1985 300DT Sedan, 330,000 mi (gone to that great autobahn in the sky)