Do you have tri-colore?

Tedolph

 

Hi Tedolph, you might have missed my response to your question on a previous post. We have tried and tried to get our hands on tri-color webbing but so far...no luck. We use hundreds of thousands of yards of webbing but there's just not enough market for us to run a special dye-lot of tri-color webbing. We haven't give up though.
We do have over 30 great colors though so let me know if any of those might work.

You can see them at: seatbeltplanet.com/shopping-cart/swatches/ Sorry I can't post the full address - we only have 4 posts so the forum won't allow a full link.

 

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With freight and hazmat fees, a pair of seat belts usually runs around $300 or less.

Cool Product, and one I might consider, but just out of curiosity.... Why are there "Hazmat Fees"?

 

Hi Paul,

UPS requires us to charge a hazmat fee for the "pyrotechnic" or pre-tensioner retractors that were used after (mostly) 2007. They have a small explosive in them that causes the seat belt retractor to wind up a few inches of webbing in the miliseconds at the beginning of a crash. This takes out the slack and assists the airbag in doing it's job. Because it's classified as an explosive, like an airbag, UPS unfortunately requires us to charge a flat $32 for it. We actually have to send people through training for just this purpose.

We'd love to work with you on a seat belt customization project. PM me if interested in being our first forum customer!

 

What is your warranty/liability exposure after a belt color change? Have you experienced and failures in the field?

 

Hi sloman911, good question. To put it simply, we just want the customer to be happy with the new color. If for some reason they are not, we'll swap the webbing for them. We send webbing swatches up front per the customer's request to help alleviate any color match issues. We have not had any failures in the field (or even any returns due to webbing color - web swatches, etc.)

With regards to the seat belt performance, we use all the original equipment hardware so the seat belts performance over time won't change after our work. You send the seat belt to us and we do the webbing swap in our lab. The seat belt webbing we use is made in the same webbing mill that makes webbing for the OE's. All of our seat belt webbing and even the sewing machines have been and are tested for strength compliance to FMVSS 209 (DOT regulation involving seat belt performance.)

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.