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Do any of you have a pic of the carpet at the plastic cover / retractor loops underneath the seats?
I just put in new carpet and can't figure out where there is supposed to be carpet & where it's supposed to be cut out.
Not really, it does keep crap from out of the seat-belt mechanism
Years and years ago I read in a magazine to remove the covers and it would help let the belts dry if they got wet (like vettes leak or something) so I removed mine when I was doing the seats way back when
When I re-did the interior I cut and did the carpet as shown above after confirming what it should look like, but left a strip out at the sill to hide the edges, you can just barely see it here. I also used some door guard on the edge of the plastic shield etc
The metal loops of course have to be there.
Shortly after than I changed and went to the f-body 3 point belts that don't have the retractor under the seat.... If I didn't have the holes all cut I would have mounted them over top of the carpet and left the shields off but hey, that's what happens
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I followed Ernie Willcox advice any made a small slit in the new carpet for the seat belt to come through, instead removing a large area the size of the plastic belt retractor cover.
Shortly after than I changed and went to the f-body 3 point belts that don't have the retractor under the seat.... If I didn't have the holes all cut I would have mounted them over top of the carpet and left the shields off but hey, that's what happens
M
I originally had all mounted UNDER my carpet with a slit for the belt to protrude (see drivers side pic). Then, after searching the interwebs I realized that was incorrect, so I put everything on TOP of the carpet, even the retractor and loop (see pass side pic).
I hadn't cut the huge notch out on both sides yet, thank God.
I followed Ernie Willcox advice any made a small slit in the new carpet for the seat belt to come through, instead removing a large area the size of the plastic belt retractor cover.
I had originally done this (see pics in above post). My driver side is currently like this, I may re-do (again) my passenger side to match the drivers side.
The 1971's had a grommet in this location. Mine is a 1st day production 1972 so there's already a TON of 1971 parts in the mix. I may opt for these grommets later on.
12-05-2021, 08:12 PM
1972 Carpet / Seatbelt
