M1 seat belt question

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pws - 21 Dec 2006 18:24 GMT

Does anyone know when the seat belts on the M1 miata were changed from
bolting to the tunnel versus attaching to the seat?
This is for cloth seats if that matters.

Thanks!

Pat

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Leon van Dommelen - 23 Dec 2006 01:28 GMT

>Does anyone know when the seat belts on the M1 miata were changed from
>bolting to the tunnel versus attaching to the seat?
>This is for cloth seats if that matters.

That is funny. I could swear the passenger seat belt on Bozo, my 96,
was bolted to the tunnel at that side. Seems strange Mazda would make
such a change in the lame-duck year. Are passenger seat and driver seat
the same in this respect?

(My seats were cloth, now inch-thick sheepskin :) )

Leon

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BRUCE HASKIN - 23 Dec 2006 03:02 GMT

Now Leon, !!!!!!

What did you do with that "sheep" that you got that skin from ???? :-)

Bruce Bing '03 LS

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pws - 23 Dec 2006 04:39 GMT

> That is funny. I could swear the passenger seat belt on Bozo, my 96,
> was bolted to the tunnel at that side. Seems strange Mazda would make
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> Leon

Well, you could have gone and looked for me. :-)

Now I had to research it. It looks like the switch was made in 1994.
Here is a receiving end for a 1994 - 1997 seatbelt.

http://tinyurl.com/ya7mhb

Here is a pair of receiving ends for a 1990 - 1993 seatbelt.

http://tinyurl.com/yhxwlt

I was going on foggy memory, but I was pretty certain that the seat
belts were attached at the seats rather than the transmission tunnel on
the '96M.

Pat

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pws - 23 Dec 2006 05:59 GMT

> Here is a pair of receiving ends for a 1990 - 1993 seatbelt.

Err, try this one instead for anyone who cares.

http://members.aol.com/tooxlent/car/miata/sale/17.jpg

Pat

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Leon van Dommelen - 23 Dec 2006 17:33 GMT

>> That is funny. I could swear the passenger seat belt on Bozo, my 96,
>> was bolted to the tunnel at that side. Seems strange Mazda would make
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>> Leon

My bad. Got confused with the bolt holding the seat itself.

>Well, you could have gone and looked for me. :-)

I am a theoretician, not an experimentalist.

Leon

>Now I had to research it. It looks like the switch was made in 1994.
>Here is a receiving end for a 1994 - 1997 seatbelt.
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>Pat

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Lanny Chambers - 24 Dec 2006 01:11 GMT

> >Well, you could have gone and looked for me. :-)
>
> I am a theoretician, not an experimentalist.

Hmph. If that were really true, you would've assigned the problem to a
grad student, then forgotten about it.

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