u/Neminus

I'm nearly 30 years old now and have played R&C games since my childhood. Even the newer games brought back nostalgic feelings of a time where life was a lot easier.

With Sonys decision to make the next Playstation digital only and having no way of actually owning your games (physically), which was the only thing consoles had an advantage compared to PC, i will probably never buy another Playstation again.

(And since they reversed their PC strategy, there is probably little hope that another R&C game will come to PC)

I love the series but i cannot support this in any way. And i guess the more you get older, the more you realize that there are more important things than playing video game. Its more important to stand against this anti consumerism which strips you of everything you own so you can just "own nothing and be happy".

With that in mind: "Don't be sad that its over, be glad that it happened"

Short story for some context:

I recently got my tires changed and loaded my winter tires into my Model 3. Of course i had to fold back the seats for them to fit. After i unloaded the tires again and folded the seats back up, i noticed that the middle seat belt of the 2nd row was completely loose and the bracket where the seat belt is attached (red circle) was just dangling there.

My thought then was, ok thats not good, that shouldn't happen. Probably some screw got loose or something? But something i could fix myself hopefully.

I then started removing the back seat surface to get a look where the seat belt bracket was maybe attached. I looked around but wasn't sure so i watched a YouTube video how to remove the back seats in hopes to get an idea where the seat belt is normally attached.

Then i noticed, wait... this thing should be attached to the same bolt the buckle is attached (red arrow). How is this thing not attached and the buckle is???

Then i started thinking and got a little bit concerned.
There are two possibilities:

Either someone forget to attach it while my car was in service. I had a service appointment some weeks ago for the replacement of my PTC heater and some weeks before that for a replacement of my AC onboard charger. I would be surprised if they needed to remove the seats for the replacement of the heater but i could imagine maybe they needed to do that for the charger? Maybe someone has some insight into that.

Or this thing was loose from the factory and it just kind stayed in place over the years and just wiggled itself up from bellow the seats which would be even more concerning.

I can probably just fix this myself but what do you think would be the best thing i should do? Should i contact Tesla about this because its such a safety related incident?