Safety Belt System: Notes
WARNING:
After a crash, the following safety belt components and attaching hardware must be inspected and tested to verify correct function:
Components that do not operate correctly or pass all Functional Tests in COMPONENT TESTS must be replaced with new components.
Safety belt assembly attaching areas must be inspected. Damaged or distorted attaching areas must be restored to their original structural integrity and a new safety belt assembly with new attaching hardware must be installed.
After deployment of the front safety belt pretensioners, a new safety belt system (including retractors, buckles and height adjusters) must be installed.
Failure to follow this instruction may result in incorrect operation of the safety belt system and increases the risk of serious personal injury or death in a crash.
- Retractors
- Buckles
- Child safety seat tether bracket assemblies
- Automatic locking retractor (ALR) feature for child safety seats (passenger seating positions only)
- Belt tension sensor (BTS) (if equipped)
- Front safety belt buckle support assemblies (slide bar) (if equipped)
- Safety belt shoulder belt height adjusters (if equipped)
Components that do not operate correctly or pass all Functional Tests in COMPONENT TESTS must be replaced with new components.
Safety belt assembly attaching areas must be inspected. Damaged or distorted attaching areas must be restored to their original structural integrity and a new safety belt assembly with new attaching hardware must be installed.
After deployment of the front safety belt pretensioners, a new safety belt system (including retractors, buckles and height adjusters) must be installed.
Failure to follow this instruction may result in incorrect operation of the safety belt system and increases the risk of serious personal injury or death in a crash.
All the safety belts are continuous-loop, 3-point systems. The combination lap and shoulder belt (continuous-loop) uses a common slip tongue and retractor.
The shoulder harness retractor is designed to let the webbing move freely in and out at all times, except during vehicle hard braking, hard cornering or an impact of 24 km/h (15 mph) or more, when it is automatically locked by a mechanically actuated inertia sensor (Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR)).
When replacing safety belt buckles and/or retractor assemblies, use only the replacement parts specified in the Ford Catalog Advantage™ or equivalent.
The active restraint system consists of the following serviceable items:
- Front safety belt shoulder height adjusters
- First row safety belt buckle and pretensioners attached to the inboard side of the seats
- Front row adaptive load limiting safety belt retractor located behind the passenger B-pillar trim panel
- Front row safety belt retractor pretensioner located behind the driver B-pillar trim panel
- Second row and third row outboard safety belt retractors located behind the quarter trim panels
- Second row 60/40 seat center safety belt retractor and LH safety belt buckle assembly integrated to the 60 percent seat backrest frame
- Second row safety belt buckle assembly attached to the seat frame
- Third row safety belt buckle assembly attached to the seat frame
- Lower anchors and tethers for children located at the second row outboard seating positions and third row RH seating position, welded to the seat cushion frame
- Child safety seat tether anchors located at each second row seating position and third row RH seating position, welded to the seat cushion frame