What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I just ordered a drivers side belt for my single cab.

I wasn't aware that first gen Tacoma's had any explosives in it?

 

I think the pretensioner (explosive charge) was added for the '99 model year. If you've got a trail rig you might be able to find the equivalent part from an older truck to downgrade. I wouldn't downgrade a highway truck.

You'd probably need to replace the female side as well, as the buckles seemed to change throughout the years.

 

How would that work, my truck doesn't have any electrical connections to the belt tensioner.

 

Sounds like you don't have the pretensioner then. Curious, if it's an '04 like your profile says?

 

I'll check the docs but if my 02 has it, your 04 has it

 

Yup, base model PreRunner 3RZ.

I've pulled the interior including the belts, and there is no electrical connections to either one.

 

if i knew it only took 5 min to change my sagging belt i wouldve done it years ago, I bought mine new oem from dealer.

 

Here you go... 04 taco. When I received my belt for my 02, it came with docs (not the one below) on proper install and disposal because of that charge.

When I replaced my driver's side belt, I handed off the old one to a neighbor who works at a auto service shop. He disposed of it with their other hazmat items.

 

Maybe regular cabs didn't get pretensioners.

@0xDEADBEEF do you know if your truck has seatbelt pretensioners? Does it have wires into the retractors?

 

3 bolts , 123, no wires, no explosive add ons

 

It has yellow connectored wires to the retractors and the passenger one likes to strangle people.

 

For safety.

Yellow wires matches what I've seen for pretensioners before. Interesting.

 

Yep, this.

Here ya go @beez --

 

you can also send them to seatbeltplanet.com for rewebbing as an alternative option.
Also if the belts aren't retracting properly or fully, the webbing likely needs to be cleaned.

 

Username checks out.

 

I did the same thing, new OEM drivers seat belt. It fixed the problem for about six years, now I'm back to a saggy seat belt.

 

No pretensioners on 95-97 models, they only have a single airbag in the steering wheel and no other explosive items. They don't even have fender sensors, just a single inertia sensor in the module below the radio stack, the 95-97 airbag system is pretty useless.

 

more than I wanted to spend for this particular project but maybe worth it. Old girls tired.

 

Hmmm. I'ma have to look into this

 

@Sperrunner has a frame in the East Bay I believe...