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10-10-2010, 03:09 PM
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W124 seat belt tensioner - how to remove?
I was thinking of picking up a set of seat belt tensioners to have as spares for my '87 300D (W124, OM603). Should I ever have an accident just firm enough to set off the airbag, the seat belt tensioners will fire too. Like the airbag, they must be replaced after use. I have a spare airbag and trigger and was thinking about the tensioners too.
According to the diagram in EPC, it looks like the seat belt and the tensioner come as a set. I can remove the entire assembly from one of the W124s at the local Pick and Pull but getting just the tensioner might be easier and less expensive and would reduce the bulk of my spare parts storage. Does anyone know if the tensioner will come off separately? Then there's the color-matching problem. Are all W124 seat belts black like mine? Jeremy
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 "Buster" in the '95 Our all-Diesel family 1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car 2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022) Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762 "Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." -- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970 
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10-10-2010, 04:07 PM
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No experience with the mechanism, but my seat belts are black.
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10-10-2010, 04:10 PM
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How is the "Belt" attached to the Tensioner reel?
AND where are the "Electrical Connections" necessary for Tensioner activation?
I'd get everything I could ,and treat it as being just as DANGEROUS as an airbag.(It is,after all an Explosive Device) 'Never seen any color other than Black on the belts themselves.
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10-10-2010, 10:01 PM
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All black, all one assembly.
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10-10-2010, 10:43 PM
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Thanks, all.
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"Buster" in the '95 Our all-Diesel family 1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car 2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022) Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762 "Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." -- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970
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#6
10-11-2010, 03:09 AM
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Do yourself a favor...
Don't get any spares. If you need one, get one then.
My house was full of stuff "just in case". I cleaned my garage out one day, and got rid of anything that was a backup unit, like a used spare garage door opener I had in the attic, along with a spare central house vacuum motor "just in case" mine went, that I got from a home being remodeled. Junk, junk, junk, everywhere. Anymore, I don't buy it until I need it.
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10-11-2010, 12:35 PM
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Jeff's right, ... anyone want a set of 124 doors "Just in case"? How about a spare diff? Never know when you'll need to scavenge parts from a complete 124 sunroof assembly, ...
If you crash the car hard enough for the bag to deploy, it's probably parts anyway.
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