So an update with some more little bits done/fixed on it.
Replaced the windscreen bar. All fixings intact on this one and it's from a later car with the improved bolts fixing in the centre, so it's definitely going no-where!
I'd noticed this on mine recently and thought it looked a bit odd...
While I was in the scrapyard on Thursday I checked out some others and turns out I was right - there should be a cover over the slave cylinder. So...
Duly fitted
(Yep, I admit it - largely pointless, but I'm anal
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Haynes description of removing the B pillar trim and changing the seatbelts is largely correct, with a couple of notable changes.
Trim-wise, it's not necessary to remove the sill covers - the lower half of the B pillar cover is barely covered by them and can easily be flexed clear.
The upper half of the B pillar cover shouldn't just be yanked out/down - there are 2 clips at the bottom which should be squeezed first, to release them. THEN pull it outwards and then down.
Fixings wise, they have completely forgotten to mention a fixing halfway up, that is held in with rivets
So glad I started stripping this down when I was 25 mins away from my rivet gun as a result
Seatbelt reel with the covers removed;
Said middle seatbelt fixing;
2 rivets holding it on;
Only option is to drill the heads off;
Then knock the back of the rivets through into the pillar (they will fall out the bottom)
Important to vacuum up all the swarf generated, so that none of it works its way into the seatbelt mechanism (could potentially damage the belt, jam the mechanism, or cause the pretensioner to be set off)
Everything removed and vacuumed clean;
On the passenger side, it's important that the wire for the pretensioner is clipped into a holder and fed behind the belt, to ensure it doesn't get snagged;
Into Lexia, diagnostics section, Airbag Ecu, this is the fault that will have been logged;
(Ignore the temporary fault open circuits showing here - that's probably 'cause I had run the car with the old pretensioners unplugged, while I drove over to get my rivet gun)
Cleared by simply going into erase faults;
As Haynes describes, you can tell the pre-tensioners have gone off, because the inertia reel units make a noise a bit like bits of broken glass rattling inside a steel can. On mine, the passenger side reel worked as normal, but the drivers side had completely locked up, no movement either way.
Haven't got round to changing the rear belts yet (only the missus and I that use the car, so no mega rush).