Stoddard modern 911 seat belt replacements

[mbranning]

I have the seats out of my 1973 911E and want to address at minimum the aged webbing of the seat belts. I plan to drive the car regularly and want to improve safety. I can send off the originals to be rewebbed. Alternatively I can purchase a kit sold by Stoddard. https://www.stoddard.com/sic80301200...01200-sic.html

Pros/Cons:

Stoddard belts don’t look as original but will likely be safer; the components such as latch and retractor are 50 year old parts and a 50 year old design. Since it’s a bolt in kit, I can revert in the old units in the future so its reversible. Another pro is I think the turn-around time will be much less buying the new parts.

Does anyone have experience with the Stoddard kits?

[Arne]

Turnaround might not be as long as you think. I had the non-retractable 3-point belts in my early '72 re-webbed by seatbeltplanet.com. Turnaround was about 10 days including shipping both ways.

[stretch]

Correct webbing and labels here if you decide to refurbish your originals.
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...hlight=webbing

[mfitton]

Pretty sure you can provide the correct webbing from Stretch to any of the seat belt refurb companies like Ssnake-Oyl.com or seatbeltplanet.com and they can install it.

[skl]

I have used seatbeltplanet for my '72 targa and both my 914's. Happy with the results and decent turn around.

[RSTarga]

I got webbing from stretch and had snakeoyl do the work. They look good, but the inertia reals tend to snatch. For safety’s sake, I think I would go for the stoddard kit today and save the originals.