General Seatbelt top tip for all you Sporting owners :)

[288gto]

Hi everyone,

I got fed up with the state of my seatbelts and decided to make a change!!! I soaked them for a few hours in hot water with a mix of Vanish OxiAction and Colour Ariel Gel and then scrubbed with a small brush, it took a day for them to dry but the result was outstanding <see photo>

Also took the car up to a local valet, he used some AutoGlym shampoo on the seats, cost £20.00 but the look almost new

Getting it ready for Auto Italia 2012 at Brooklands, are any other Cinquecentos attending?

 

[blu73]

they did come out well!
ps. liking the steering wheel

 

[andys cinq]

WOW What a massive difference and i will remember this for future reference and i will be at brooklands and stanford hall with my cinq bodywork finished or not

 

[blu73]

if only i had a set of red seatbelts lol

 

[andys cinq]

same here ive got harnesses

 

[fingers99]

Excellent! Now we need a way of blackening the black bits and of restoring the red on the red bits.

 

[fingers99]

same here ive got harnesses

Hope you've got a cage too or you're well on the way to a broken neck if you roll it.

 

[blu73]

i have a sei so no red belts i was gonna steal the ones out of the cinq before i sold it but they were very dirty so i didn't. Doh!

 

[288gto]

Thank you the steering wheel was a necessity, as they tried to steal it a few times. So I fitted and after-marked 330mm wheel with a detachable (snapp-off) boss so the wheel goes home with me every night also had to cut the tops of the door lock buttons (once some idiot bent my upper door frame to get in before noticing there was no wheel!!!!) car thieves should be shot!

Couldn't help myself and ordered a horn push button from Ferrari, the one from and F40 fit quite nicely

 

[blu73]

again, i had a detachable steering wheel, sold with the cinq though - cool mod no doubt

 

[andys cinq]

Hope you've got a cage too or you're well on the way to a broken neck if you roll it.

Think if u roll it at any sort of speed with bucket or normal seats you are going to get something along those lines anyway

 

[fingers99]

With a cage and harnesses you'll be just fine. With ordinary (or even bucket) seats, there's a chance for your shoulders to roll with ordinary belts. You're pretty likely to be OK. With a harness, your shoulders can't move with the impact. Your neck takes the weight of the car. People have survived, but I bet they all wished they'd put a cage in.

See NASCAR for just how effective the helmet, hans, bucket and cage can be!

 

[blu73]

gotta admit if i was in a big crash in a cento with no cage the last thing i'd want is to be strapped in and not able to move lol

 

[andys cinq]

It is on my shopping list in the next stage but i think its moving very close to being the next purchase,can u recommend a good cage and prefer weld in as ive had them before on my old v8 capris unless the cinq gods advise otherwise:worship:

 

[fingers99]

Off the shelf there are only the Sparco and Momo ones. (They're actually the same company, AFAIK) One is weld in, one is bolt in, but I can't remember, for the life of me, which is which.

Probably mentioned in J333EVO/Foxyemx thread on the 1.4 16v track car (which has weld in).

 

[blu73]

OMP do off shelf full cages too - likewise though, no idea if they bolt or weld in.

 

[fingers99]

I meant OMP rather than Momo. Getting old.............

 

[BlueDan]

I like the coloured accent on the dash top, and where are your seats from?

And good tip for the belts, mine look like your before picture

 

[blu73]

seats look like mpi seicento ones

 

[288gto]

Thank you I wanted to paint that part of the dash but as its located so close to the window you would get lots of glare, so I went with a satin black with a Broom Yellow sripe (Fiat Coupe inspired)

My original seats were quite worn and my mate was stripping a 53 plate Seicento Sound that only done about 20k so the seats were mint, had to modify the rear seat top catches a bit but other than that they were a straight swap. I think those seats were in a Sporting Sei as well but not sure if in that colour?