I Gave This $5 Seatbelt Gadget a Test—Here’s My Honest Review

Attention all vertically-challenged adults, teens, children, and all those who love them: The days of seatbelt hatred are over. Seatbelts cutting into our necks are history. I have good news that will change your life, your kids’ lives, too— the way it has mine. 

In the interest of full disclosure, I am considered short of stature—a formal way to describe “short.” I have loathed seatbelts with a kind of loathing only other shorties can understand. I will admit to slipping my arm through the shoulder strap part of a seatbelt to relieve the neck-cutting pain—an unsafe hack for sure, and one for which I’ve taken a lot of heat.

Good Thing, Tiny Package

Last Christmas, I found a small package under the tree, a gift from my very tall husband. (I smile quietly at how often I have observed that the short girls snag the tall guys.)

Surprising Convenience

Inside I found pair of Seatbelt Adjusters. Cute. Probably won’t work. It’s not like I’ve never attempted to fix my neck-cutting problem. Nothing worked well; by that, I mean nothing was convenient, comfortable, safe, and reliable.

If a seatbelt adjuster cannot meet that standard, what are the chances I will use it every time I slip behind the wheel or into a passenger seat?

Clever Design

I should have been more excited to open the gift, but in my heart, I knew it would be just one more fail. And boy, was I wrong. Oh. My. Goodness. This clever design works!

Effortless Fit

This seatbelt adjuster snaps in place and stays on the seatbelt. It slides effortlessly to comfortably fit the person it is protecting, regardless that person’s size. This means that for my husband, the adjuster just slides way down to the end and out of the way. When I use the seatbelt, I just slide the adjuster to my point of comfort with minimal effort.

In no time flat, I added both adjusters (comes as a 2-pak) to the driver and passenger seats in our daily driver. And you can believe it that within days, Vangie got outfitted, too.

Two Styles

My beloved seatbelt adjusters are available in two styles—one I will call square, the other triangular. I have tested and tried both. Here’s my honest review:

Square option

What I like: The set of two adjusters includes instructions for how to add this to a vehicle’s seatbelt. This makes it super easy to install.

What I don’t like: For some reason, the seatbelt has a way of getting twisted, which isn’t a serious problem at all, just slightly annoying. It’s very easy to get it back to its untwisted self.

Triangle option

What I like: This design does away with the belt getting twisted, which is awesome.

What I don’t like: The 2-pak comes without instructions. Now, this may not be the case for every delivery, but this is how I received the triangle option. Solution: Just go back to Amazon where you will find very clear instructions, including a demo video for how to add an adjuster to a seatbelt.

My personal favorite design is the triangle style with anti-twist feature. And at the very low price of less than $5 per adjuster, I’m happy to have the triangle style installed in both of our vehicles, with the square adjusters safely stored in glove boxes in case one goes missing.

Onto the List

These seatbelt adjusters have found a permanent home on my private list of The Best Thing I’ve Ever Bought—quite near my Hoover Steam Vac.

 

 

 

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