Removal And Installation: Rear: Installation
To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service, carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor. Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the Mopar® Parts Catalog. Failure to follow these instructions may result in possible serious or fatal injury.
The rear right (1) and rear center (2) seat belt buckles are serviced individually; however, the rear center lower anchor (3) and rear left (4) buckles are serviced only as a unit. In vehicles manufactured for EMEA markets, each of the rear buckles (except the center lower anchor buckle) also includes a seat belt switch and pigtail wire harness. Seat belt switches are not used in the rear buckles of vehicles manufactured for North American markets.
- Position the rear seat belt buckle unit onto the rear floor panel.
- Install and tighten the fastener or fasteners that secure the rear seat belt buckle anchor to the rear floor panel. Tighten the fasteners to the proper torque specification. Refer to TORQUE SPECIFICATIONS .
- If equipped, connect the seat belt switch pigtail wire connector for the buckle being serviced to the body wire harness.
- Install the rear seat cushion into the vehicle. Refer to SEAT CUSHION, REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION .
- Do not connect the negative battery cable at this time. The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Verification Test procedure should be performed following service of any SRS component. Refer to RESTRAINTS SYSTEM VERIFICATION TEST .