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Old 10/20/06, 08:25 AM
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All '07 owners - did I get screwed

Could you all tell me if you have this (using picture from a post in mustangforums) on your passenger side?

I have it on the driver's side, but not the passenger's side...and that seatbelt sure whips back. I just know it will be scratching up the plastic and/or window.

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Originally Posted by hightime2211
Could you all tell me if you have this (using picture from a post in mustangforums) on your passenger side?

I have it on the driver's side, but not the passenger's side...and that seatbelt sure whips back. I just know it will be scratching up the plastic and/or window.

Thanks,
Todd
Oh...that's what that thing does
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No. my '07 doesn't have it either.
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I've been screwed as well!
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How lame is that. Save five cents per car. Gheesh.
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That's a no for me as well. Not too concern about it though...
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The seatbelt retainer strap is only available on the drivers seat.
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Originally Posted by Little Black Pony
The seatbelt retainer strap is only available on the drivers seat.
Well, I can see this is true for the 07s, but since the 05s and 06s had it, I wonder why they took it off?
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??????????????????????????????????????

Dude..... that is just............... weird............
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ok, i am lost.... what are we looking at? what is it supposed to do?
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It's part of the weight reduction program. This modification will reduce your 1/4 mile time by .00001 seconds.
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Then I'm taking "both" of mine off!!!
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It's called "de-contenting" and it's been done for years. My wife's 94 had the nice door inserts and everything, while my buddy's cherry 98 GT was just plastic.

It's a continual trade-off... the guys with the older cars have to play keep-up with the technology and Hp, while the guys with the newer cars a lot of times have to retrofit the options from the older cars that are no longer available onto theirs.

Of course, showing off my active anti-theft window-down feature is just rubbing it in...
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Originally Posted by SilverHorseRacing

Of course, showing off my active anti-theft window-down feature is just rubbing it in...




And I agree, that is weird to remove the strap all of the sudden on the '07's. Wonder what the reasoning is.
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Nope not on my 07
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how does that thing work?
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Does it get in the way of passengers entering and leaving the backseat? I dunno. I'm only guessing. Although trying to fit anyone into the backseat has it's own problems.
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No...it is not on the 07...hubby has it on his 06......we got screwed.....
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It simply holds the seatbelt to make it easier to grab. The end of the strap has what "looks" like a button or snap on the end, but it's not. It's held in place by a magnet.
The strap works great except that it comes loose very easy. And that's how the back seat pasengers get in. You just pull on the seatbelt (or the strap) a little and it comes loose, allowing the seatbelt to go back to it's "natural" position where it's out of the way.

I couldn't live without the one on the driver's side.
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It's held in place by a magnet.
The magnets were for the '05s. The '07s switched over to a plastic snap.


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