I have had my 35th ANC for almost 3 years now BUT due to health problems the last few years the car has been neglected (along with my others...sob ) 

Welcome Bob327 to the Forum.

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White makes sense and Black would also... Mine are Grey which sure makes no sense to me however. 

I couldn't find your vin number in this data base, but there is some interesting stuff here to look at. You may want to contact the owner of this site as he has been trying to keep this stuff up to date. Just a thought and here for you if you care:

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Pull the bottom belt out all the way. There's a sticker with big letters/numbers. That's the date code for the belt.  The first digits are week produced, the second set year. The meaning of the letter is unknown. Most 88-89 belts are "L".

There was an extensive seat belt recall in the early 90's for 84-90 seat belts.  Many belts were replaced under this campaign.  My 88 had both belts replaced in 1995. This may explain the gray colored belts. Whatever the original color was, that color wasn't available (white) for the recall, and the gray was substituted.

Or the original belts malfunctioned. They tended to lock up and become unusable. It was a real problem, not just a 'could be' deal. Perhaps a subsequent owner had the opriginal belts malfunction, after the recall campaign expired (contrary to popular myth, campaigns DO have expiration dates) and all he coul obtain for replacements were gray.

There's some ideas as an explanation as to how your car has what it has. It's 25 years old, and you've only had it two of those. Shit happens to cars.





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Well the recall on the belts I did not know about....so I guess I'll check out if the car was one of the cars  that had them replaced... Maybe just maybe GM has that information...

I would be curious to know the date codes on the existing belts.

I looked at my microfiche. It has a chart of "seat belt usage" by model year,  Y07 or Y67, and the interior code color with the corresponding seat belt color.  Look at your build sheet or SPID (the RPO's decal on the center console lid). Near the end you will find an RPO with two integers followed by "I".  This is the Interior color code. 11I = white, 19I = black, and 90I is grey.

Look at the codes, and you'll know what color it was originally equipped with. 
Look at the date code and you may be able to discern when they were replaced.


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Dave:

Got this off the Passenger side belt...

Huh. I don't know what to make of this. Are you by chance color blind? :grin:


10126644 is the P/N for a production, passenger side, WHITE coupe seat belt.

09L88 is a belt produced in the first few days of March, 1988. The "L" is correct for original 88-89 belts.

I don't know what the "model number" denotes.

Look at your build sheet again. On the far right side, in the middle big field, there will be the codes that begin with 1's, 2's, etc.  You should find 113 (white leather seats) 11I (eye) white interior trim, and 40x(x= U or L, or both) and 41U for the white and black exterior. I'm 99% certain you have 11eye for white interior trim.


I don't know your production date, (on the door jamb certification sticker) but your VIN of 15082 is very likely to be at least March or April of 1988. So the 1st week March belt date is fine. It precedes the assembly date of the car.

Based on what you present, I conclude that the Passenger belt in your car is the one installed by Bowling Green Assembly, and it should be white in color.

 From the build sheet (which I got from the Museum) the actual build date was (scheduled) for March 21st