FYI if pulling the rear seatbelt tensioners!

[kms1990]

you will need to pull them to do struts or many other things involving removing the hatch trim. before removing them, restrain the seat belt at the tensioner with a clothes pin ect. before removing the tensioner from its mounting position. if you did not and are looking for how to fix the inevitable belt lock up look at how it mounts (bolt hole back and up) and hold it PERFECTLY level while pulling slowly on the belt (you must find the angle it comes out at when mounted and going over seat, and pull that way) Posted this for anyone fighting this, like i did for hours, when doing struts.

 

[whatusername]

you will need to pull them to do struts .

No you dont.. they do not need to come off

 

[kms1990]

well the service manual say you do to pull the metal thing over the mount bolts for access, so i did and ended up in that situation. did they need to come off? not really after looking back but they did and i put this up for others that did as i and took off everything.