Front Outboard

FRONT OUTBOARD

WARNING: 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 DaimlerChrysler Mopar(R) Parts Catalog.

NOTE: A traveling front outboard seat belt buckle is located on the inboard side of each front outboard seat section (40 percent) used on all vehicles. The seat belt buckle on the driver side front seat for all vehicles also includes a seat belt switch.





1. Move the right or left front outboard seat section to its most rearward position and tilt the seat back forward for easiest access to the front outboard seat belt buckle lower anchor.
2. On standard cab vehicles only, also move the outboard seat section opposite the side from which the buckle is to be removed to its most forward position and tilt the seat back forward.
3. On standard cab vehicles only, remove the stowage tray from the rear floor panel behind the seat. Load Floor - Removal .
4. For buckles equipped with a seat belt switch, from behind the front seat disconnect the seat belt switch pigtail wire connector (4) from the seat wire harness take out and connector located on the lower inboard side of the seat cushion frame just forward of the buckle lower anchor.
5. From behind the front seat, remove the screw (3) that secures the buckle (1) lower anchor to the lower inboard side of the seat cushion frame.
6. From the front of the front seat, reach between the center seat cushion (2) or center floor console and the right or left front outboard seat cushion to access and remove the front outboard seat belt buckle from the seat.