What Is That Little Button On Your Car's Seat Belts For?

The seat belt is one of the most important parts of your car cabin. It serves as your first line of defense against short stops, whiplash, and bonking your face against the steering wheel. It goes without saying that familiarizing yourself with your seat belt's functions and components can only benefit your overall safe driving experience, though not every part of the seat belt has an immediately obvious purpose. Take, for example, the small plastic button you see in the middle of the actual belt, a short distance away from the latch plate on the waist section, possibly with a twin on the shoulder strap.

This little doodad's technical name is the "seat belt buckle button stop," but you can also just call it the button stop for short. The button stop has a simple, yet practical purpose: serving as a little stopper to prevent the metal latch from sliding too far along the belt and getting itself stuck at either the top or bottom. Technically, your seat belt would still function normally without it, but it would be a lot more annoying to actually grab the latch and secure it in the buckle every time you get in the car without it.

Selected excerpt(s) and linked article courtesy of Daniel Trock, slashgear(dot)com
Royalty-free photo courtesy of Pixabay

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