Technical Seat belt tensioner exploded, can be resetted?

[ILoveConvertibles]

Hello people! Yesterday my tiny lovely 98ish Convertible Bertone passed successfully the first MOT test since I own it.

Today, anyway, I discovered sth. wrong, that yesterday when collecting the car from the garage I didn't realize.

Sliding the driver passenger's seat, my eye fell onto the area of the handbrake, where the seatbelt clips are found. And I discovered that the passenger side seatbelt clip was MUCH shorter than the driver's. I also noticed that the rubber manifold covering it was completely collapsed on itself.

I tried to discover if it was related to the position of the seat, both the front/rear sliding or the backrest slope, but nothing. Then I noticed a wire cable running from the seatbelt clip to an area under the seat. And then I realized: yesterday, when welding the seat bracket connecting it to the car's chassis, the mechanic must have made the tensioner explode

That was also confirmed by the fact that the little plastic card showing that the tensioner has been engaged popped up from its site.

NOW: there is some way to have the tensioner working back, or all I have to do is to replace it? I tried to tie the passenger's belt but is near IMPOSSIBLE, the belt has to be unrolled 100 % from its reel to have it locked into the clip.

Please help me!! :worship:

 

[blu73]

well first off i'd be asking whoever broke it to replace it, but if not then a quick trip to the scrappies and get a new one and just replace it, will only be a few quid.

 

[ILoveConvertibles]

That's fine, but somebody knows how to remove it from the car, or else to deactivate it to permit the passenger wear the belt without holding his breath during all the journey?

 

[blu73]

can't say i've ever had to try get one out but sure if you just remove some plastic trim it should be pretty obvious how to get it out.

 

[ILoveConvertibles]

I found one for 25 GBP shipped from a Punto Convertible from which I already cannibalized the door windows motors, all the windows switches (to replace them while the hateful phenomenon of dying green light occurs), and probably the last working clock on this planet: on the convertible they usually stop working because of the rain pouring inside from old and damaged roofs, and it is different from the usual Punto clock.

I'll try to reset my pretensioner but obviously the pyrotechnical cartridge is blown, so it has to be replaced.