The Seatbelt cover Melted!

[TomoHawk]

It looks like one of the covers on the seat belt retractor on the rear shock tower got soft and sagged enough for me to notice.

Do you think I could soften it again with a heat gun and straighten it out?

thxZ

[FastWoman]

Oh, MAN! Is it that hot on America's North Coast?! Yikes!

Sure, heat deformed it, and heat can deform it again. Just take it slowly, and don't apply too much heat too quickly in any one spot. Heat both the inside and the outside.

Maybe a good place to heat the part is in your oven. Be sure to keep the radiant heat off of it (e.g. with a couple of cookie sheets beneath it)! This might be a more controlled way to apply heat evenly and not to burn it. Try it with a few random pieces of hard plastic around the house.