Seat belts installed on wrong sides. Recode.

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Jose_Asturias

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Hello, my name is Jose and I am from Asturias, a state located in the north of Spain.
First of all, I want to thank you for this forum, the information here has been helpful to me many times. Thank you.

Now I'll tell you the problem that my car has, the car in question is a 2019 skoda octavia rs tdi, I bought the car second-hand and the problem it has is that if you park the car on a slope the seat belts come off. They remain locked, when the car drives onto a flat surface the belts unlock.
I dismantled the seat belts to see if there was anything strange and I realized that the car had an accident and they put new seat belts on it. I didn't see anything strange, until a few days later it occurred to me to look at the reference of the belts in the buckle and I have seen that they are incorrectly installed in the car, the passenger belt is on the driver's side and the driver's belt is mounted on the passenger's side.
Therefore I have to remove the seat belts and install them in the correct place.
Now comes my question. Before disassembling them, can I see what the serial number of each seat belt is so that I can then code them correctly?
Thank you very much for your attention
 
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Nothing to do with coding. If its fitted to the wrong side it'll need fitting to the correct side. Coding does nothing to its operation.

Locking of the seatbelts happen using a pendulum. So if a passenger belt is fitted on the drivers side, the pendulum won't be in its proper resting place.

See from 2:10 in this video.
 
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Yes, I understand that I have to change them, but I understand that when changing them I have to re-encode them. Or am I wrong? Thank you so much.
 
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Yes, I understand that I have to change them, but I understand that when changing them I have to re-encode them. Or am I wrong? Thank you so much.
The only thing they have on the mechanism is an igniter for the pre-tensioner. Fairly certain they are not a coded item. Only thing that may appear is a fault code if the circuit is open, or the tensioner is faulty.
 
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Hello again, I was not able to get the code to code the seat belts. So I removed the battery, changed the belts to the side, reconnected the battery and there is no problem! Now the belts work correctly, thank you very much.
 
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