# 2010 Ford Escape safety belt stuck

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2010-ford-escape-safety-belt-stuck/158877>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** escape, ford\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2010-ford-escape-safety-belt-stuck/158877 "2020-02-19T21:56:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HarryLessenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cc9497/32.png) [@HarryLessenger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HarryLessenger)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2010-ford-escape-safety-belt-stuck/158877/1 "2020-02-19T21:56:49Z")

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rear bench seat safety belt stuck won’t release to allow seat back to straighten up.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2010-ford-escape-safety-belt-stuck/158877/2 "2020-02-21T04:22:49Z")

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I expect the seat belt hardware is gonna have to be removed for an inspection. I had a similar problem on my prior VW Rabbit during a vacation drive, the seat belt wouldn’t allow me to move forward, it was locking me against the seat no matter what I did. I pulled over & removed the necessary stuff, along side a busy freeway is where this sort of thing always happens of course, and I saw there was a spring inside the seat belt hardware that had lost its proper springiness (tension) and that was causing the seat belt retraction mechanism to lock all the time. I had to slightly shorten the spring as a temporary fix until a proper replacement.

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**Author:** ![davepsinbox\_157004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@davepsinbox\_157004](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davepsinbox_157004)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2010-ford-escape-safety-belt-stuck/158877/3 "2020-02-21T05:05:37Z")

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Any chance of removing the horizontal seat part so you can get to the retractor mechanism?