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“I have owned a car for six years and have been driving at the same time all the time, no one has questions or problems,” said the Delfi man, showing pictures of the broken seat belt buckle for the center seat on the seat belt. rear seat safety.
According to the interlocutor, although several technical inspections in a row did not attract the attention of the inspectors, when he arrived at the technical assistance center in July this year, he had the impression that the Volkswagen Touran he drives had no more serious problems than this.
I had to go back twice
“On the first inspection, the controller was stuck with a faulty headlight adjuster and belt buckle, although, as I said, it has never been a problem since the purchase,” he said.
After receiving a white inspection report sheet, he hastened to correct the deficiencies. There were no issues with the headlight adjuster, nor was the seat belt buckle broken. But when I got to the TA station, there was a blink of an eye.
“The controller placed the belt on the rear buckle, pushed, pushed on the back, then told me to ‘check in’. Now it will be known for life that on the back, the middle seat has two different buckles, and I put the same on the left. This is the second time I have been told that the belt buckle does not work, “said the interlocutor.
In search of the necessary parts, he traveled to the car junkyard, but said he was not received there in good faith, as no used parts dealer wanted to dismantle good car showrooms and sell such buckles. After receiving the necessary part with little disability, the Delfi reader returned to the technical inspection and this time left with a valid inspection slip.
“The first reinspection cost 3.75 euros, and the second time it cost 2 euros for the driver to buckle up in the yard,” the man said wryly. – As you explained to me, with a buckle that I have had for all these six years, a person sitting on the back will not be able to buckle, and without black plastic, he will hurt himself. Isn’t it now that all the cars without seat belts are fastened or the buckles are broken?
The order is not broken
Renaldas Gabartas, Head of Communication of the Association of Technical Inspection Companies “Transeksta”, emphasized that the requirements of the European Union (EU) directives transposed into national legislation clearly define what safety belts and their buckles should be and how they should work.
“The general requirements state that” the rigid parts of the seat belt, such as buckles, adjusting devices, accessories, etc., must not have sharp edges “, that” all parts of the belt assembly must be adequately protected “,” the buckle should be designed as follows: to avoid misuse ‘, that’ it should not be possible to engage the buckle only partially ‘,’ it should be clear how to open the buckle ‘and it is even stated that’ the force required to open the buckle must not exceed 6 daN ‘, The interlocutor cited the regulations to be followed by AT controllers.
According to R. Gabart, judging by the photo presented, it is obvious that said buckle was broken and the TA controller had to consider it as a major defect and not as a “problem”.
“And it is not a whim broken by a finger. Even if this buckle is not worn (meaning no one is sitting in the middle of the rear row of seats), an open mechanism can cause injury. If someone is sitting here while traveling , a damaged buckle body can simply be trapped inside if a foreign object gets in the way to prevent the seat belt from being worn or pinning the passenger in. Such an experience would be especially unpleasant if the car gets stuck at a railroad crossing, catches on fire or start drowning, “said the expert.
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