Mike,
I've got a team of engineers working on this. They are currently studying how this could happen. You have a seat belt. The seat belt is supposed to be buckled when youre operating the machine. Yet somehow the seat belt falls down beside the seat and gets entangled ripping it and the buckle from the seat The last time I saw them they had the smallest engineer in the group buckled up and stuffed half way down between the seat and the tank and still could not duplicate this issue........Just kidding. I had to have a little fun with ya.
There is a potential for this to happen and it's expensive when it does. Most people won't hafta buy too may replacement belts before they remember.
It's going to take guys some time to get accustomed to wearing the belts but the goal is to get them using them. Shoot me an e-mail at
[email protected] with your dealer info as well as your name and address (your dealer may not know you by "Blessed 1") and I'll see what I can do.
The retracting seat belts have some issues as well. Most of them can tend to ratchet tighter and tighter as you bounce in the seat. For some it could begin to cut of the circulation to their legs and feet. For me the circulation to my brain.........get it seat/brain......... The big issue is these belts tend to get really uncomfortable really fast when this occurs which could cause some to not wear them.
Thanks
Terry