Interior Door Arm Rest/Seat Belt Scratching Ideas

Hi Guys,

I was wondering if any of you had any novel ideas to prevent scratching of the door arm rests from getting scratched by the seatbelt. This is a design flaw that whenever the seatbelt is not in use, the buckle comes into direct contact with the arm rests and scratches them. I just bought a new set of arm rests for my car and would like to keep them looking that way. Any ideas? I've thought of some sort of rubber band system to keep the buckle further up the belt.

If it's bad enough I will just buy new ones :thumbsup

I'd love to hear some good ideas.

My seat belts don't touch the door panel at all when not in use...

It's a coupe thing? :dunno

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Originally Posted by az3579

My seat belts don't touch the door panel at all when not in use...

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Concur. Sedan though.

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Sedans have a b pillar wearing out from the belt :(

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Originally Posted by derbo

Sedans have a b pillar wearing out from the belt :(

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I will have to replace my B-pillars this year....


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Originally Posted by ryankokesh

It's a coupe thing? :dunno

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No, one could just hook the seal belt onto the side latch for the seat.Problem solved.

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Sedans have a b pillar wearing out from the belt :(

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Mine doesn't make contact. If yours is making contact (assuming windows closed here), it's not positioned properly.
It's a hard plastic; the seat belt making contact with it shouldn't be causing any significant damage to the pillar.

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Originally Posted by az3579

No, one could just hook the seal belt onto the side latch for the seat.Problem solved.



Mine doesn't make contact. If yours is making contact (assuming windows closed here), it's not positioned properly.
It's a hard plastic; the seat belt making contact with it shouldn't be causing any significant damage to the pillar.

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It's probably cause I'm shorter.


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Originally Posted by ryankokesh

It's a coupe thing? :dunno

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I think it is. Mine does it. I try not to sweat the small stuff. There's plenty enough to sweat about with this car. I just take a black sharpie to the door cube. Cleans up ok.

i used xpel ultimate film on the area the seatbelt hits. it scratched my cf arm rest before, but i just polished it and applied it and now it's good.

Figured it out. Very simple and clean fix. Simply get a set of seat belt stop buttons. Currently the seatbelts have these to prevent the buckle from sliding down. All I did was insert one more about three inches higher from the current one and it solved the problem.

^ nicely done and good:idea

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Originally Posted by ziazhp

Figured it out. Very simple and clean fix. Simply get a set of seat belt stop buttons. Currently the seatbelts have these to prevent the buckle from sliding down. All I did was insert one more about three inches higher from the current one and it solved the problem.

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That's what I did too. Just Google Dorman seat belt stop.

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