Dear All.....
I have just ben through an unuasual experience with a Ford Dealership in Sydney where I wanted to replace the two front seatbelts on my car. I ordered and bought the parts myself from their parts department and booked the car in to have them fitted.
Both seatbelts matched and were the standard grey variagated naterial that they commonly use (ie they were the same colour but had light/dark grey tones in a kind of diagonal stripe formation.
What was fitted to the drivers side was OK. What was fitted to the passenger side was a Ford belt but it was completely different. The one fitted was certainly not the same one which I bought because, being a detail kind of guy (especially where my car is concerned) I checked the boxes myself. It was a kind of flat grey....similiar in colour to the drivers side belt but a completely different material. The instructions that I found in the box were EB ED instructions which made me think that these were the belts were suited to this vehicle.
I told the dealer Service Manager bluntly that someone had stolen the belt I had bought and showed him the purchase invoice but he flately denied that this could have been the case and that I must have made a mistake when I bought the belts. He then proceded to tell me that the front passenger seat belt in the EL was the one that I had bought and had been fitted and that Ford do not make the type fitted to the drivers side anymore.
This could be the case and if so, then I must have been very lucky and got hold of one of the few remaining 'proper' EL belts left in the country and that is why it was taken.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue (not the theft but the obtaining of the the proper belts) or help me with the sourcing a new one because as it stands now my fron sesat belts do not match and it is !@#@! annoying.
Moreover, if Ford have discontinued this part or replaced it in some way. Why would they do this on such a new car?
HELP!
I have just ben through an unuasual experience with a Ford Dealership in Sydney where I wanted to replace the two front seatbelts on my car. I ordered and bought the parts myself from their parts department and booked the car in to have them fitted.
Both seatbelts matched and were the standard grey variagated naterial that they commonly use (ie they were the same colour but had light/dark grey tones in a kind of diagonal stripe formation.
What was fitted to the drivers side was OK. What was fitted to the passenger side was a Ford belt but it was completely different. The one fitted was certainly not the same one which I bought because, being a detail kind of guy (especially where my car is concerned) I checked the boxes myself. It was a kind of flat grey....similiar in colour to the drivers side belt but a completely different material. The instructions that I found in the box were EB ED instructions which made me think that these were the belts were suited to this vehicle.
I told the dealer Service Manager bluntly that someone had stolen the belt I had bought and showed him the purchase invoice but he flately denied that this could have been the case and that I must have made a mistake when I bought the belts. He then proceded to tell me that the front passenger seat belt in the EL was the one that I had bought and had been fitted and that Ford do not make the type fitted to the drivers side anymore.
This could be the case and if so, then I must have been very lucky and got hold of one of the few remaining 'proper' EL belts left in the country and that is why it was taken.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue (not the theft but the obtaining of the the proper belts) or help me with the sourcing a new one because as it stands now my fron sesat belts do not match and it is !@#@! annoying.
Moreover, if Ford have discontinued this part or replaced it in some way. Why would they do this on such a new car?
HELP!