Post by
Stu Segal »
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Thu Jul 10, 2003 2:10 pm
Tomiata -
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this so aggravating - even more so considering the actual placement of the belts makes it very hard for passengers to reach them.
This, and the rattling, is the kind of thing that makes you think engineering never actually drove the cars before final production approval - except if that were the case the car would be fraught with dozens of those kinds of things - and it's not. Just seems like they threw in seatbelts in at the last minute cause they had to.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION - the local BMW Motorcycle dealer has dense rubber pads that are about 3/16" thick, and are sold in pairs cut to specific shapes for the use on the sides of motorcycle gas tanks (where your knees would hit). I've held them against the doorpost, and they're soft enough as to not produce a rattle. I'm not yet entirely convinced that the adhesive that comes with these things will be appropriate for the doorpost, so I have not yet installed them - but something like these dense-but-slightly-soft pads will, I think, be a good solution.
. . .Stu