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Seat Belt Plastic Button Replacement Procedure

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jerryktta

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For anyone wanting to replace their old faded red seat belt buttons, I just replaced mine today and photographed the replacement procedure. The attached photographs have text describing the procedure...just put your cursor on the photo and text directions will pop up at the top of each photograph. I hope this helps other TTA owners. Jerry K.

Please remember to not pry open any portion of the tan plastic seat belt holder or tan receiver as you will damage your seat belt....pry out only the red plastic button.
 

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Re: Sticky: Seat Belt Plastic Button Replacement Procedure

Great advice! I did this to my TTA shortly after I got it. Small things like this really help with the overall interior appearance.
 
Re: Sticky: Seat Belt Plastic Button Replacement Procedure

Replacing the old faded, milky pink buttons with bright red new buttons really does make a visual difference and helps make the interior look much better for such a small change.
 
Re: Sticky: Seat Belt Plastic Button Replacement Procedure

Defenitly makes a big visual difference, and of course there's a recal on them as well if they turned pink ... the recal also calls for the metal clips to be put in there protecting the plastic when buckling up.

I did mine maybe 10 years ago ... easy done as per the first post so well worth it ... and the button kit was only like $5 back then I remember so most likely the cheapest improvement I did on mine :-)

For the seat belt recal see:
Turbo Trans Am Forum - View Single Post - Pontiac Product Service Publication - Service Bulletins and Product Campaigns - PDFs
 
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Jan Larsson said:
Re: Sticky: Seat Belt Plastic Button Replacement Procedure

Defenitly makes a big visual difference, and of course there's a recal on them as well if they turned pink ... the recal also calls for the metal clips to be put in there protecting the plastic when buckling up.

I did mine maybe 10 years ago ... easy done as per the first post so well worth it ... and the button kit was only like $5 back then I remember so most likely the cheapest improvement I did on mine :)

For the seat belt recal see:
Turbo Trans Am Forum - View Single Post - Pontiac Product Service Publication - Service Bulletins and Product Campaigns - PDFs
Click to expand...

@chriskober any chance the link to this PDF can be fixed ?
 
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