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Looking for both a-pillar interior pieces for manual seat belts, color doesn't matter.

dubber084 wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mazda-MX3-MX-3- ... 7c&vxp=mtr

Thanks dubber!!

Those look like auto seat belt A-pillar pieces. The manual belt ones don't extend back to the B-pillar plastic. They stop once they make contact with the headliner.

Savin wrote:Those look like auto seat belt A-pillar pieces. The manual belt ones don't extend back to the B-pillar plastic. They stop once they make contact with the headliner.

Here's the deal. I bought my mx3 with the manual seat belt conversion, but is missing the trim that goes over the doors. I do have a small a-pillar piece and the b-pillar piece but am missing something in the middle where the tracks once were. Guess I just wasted 37 bucks. Please help me figure this out!!

Are the headliners different between auto and manual seat belts?

If your car once had auto belts, then those pieces should work, cause I doubt whoever did the swap removed the auto seatbelt rail and swapped the headliner. Cars that came with manual belts don't have the auto seatbelt rails in them, so the headliner is bigger, hence the plastic stops when it reaches the liner instead of having to cover up the rails too.

The rails have been removed.

As long as it has the original headliner, those ones you bought should work fine. You'll still have that gap where the seatbelt rails were, but you can't do anything about that unless you replace the headliner too.

Do the the rails have clips on them to mount the a-pillar trim pieces to?

Are the b-pillar pieces different from auto to manual as well, because I once had a set of the original a-pillars and couldn't get them to work. Seemed like the rails needed to be in place in order to mount.

That I don't know off the top of my head. Both my cars with auto belts are in storage. I know there are clips, but I don't know if they clip on the rail or something else.

I think the B-pillar ones are different too, to accommodate the rails. i think there's a clip where the A and B pillar meet and lock into each other.

Well, someone half azzed this seat belt conversion.

my 92 was completely stripped when i got it.. so everything was removed.. seat belts everything..

heres a pic of it with all of it gone.. im actually glad the previous owner removed everything including the rails. this is my 3rd mx project and the auto seat belts have always just crapped out.




heres a pic of the pillars i got from the junkyard. you can see that it does stick out, they hold in place fine, but because i didnt have a head liner either, you see the ugly gap in between. im still on the hunt for a real headliner. I still not do not have a manual seat belt for the passenger side but once i get one, im just going to cut a hole through the other back piece so i can bolt it to the car. on the driverside though i didnt have to do that since, that is where that hanger clip was at and I just removed it, in order to bolt a manual seat belt assys to the car.