Hello everybody please have a look at the pictures of provided. When I took off my left front tire there is a part behind the tire which has some oil buildup on it I’m not sure what part this is? Possibly a gearbox? I know; It’s really hard to tell from the photo because it’s dark in there, even with me shining the light it’s hard to see the oil but basically behind the front left tire if you take it off there’s a small box which has some light oil buildup on it

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On the passenger seat back of my 2013 Abarth, the cable that connects from the red strap down to the lever on the bottom left is broken.
This is the cable that folds the seat forward to make room to get into the rear.
In the back of the seat, there is a black plastic spring winder attached to the seat frame with a rivet.
The red strap has a short cable that connects to the top of this spring winder. This portion of the cable still works.
There is a second longer cable that comes out of the spring winder with a green plastic end. This longer cable is broken in two places near the bottom where it connects to a lever.
Does anyone know if this longer cable is a replaceable part?
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I have not been able to find a part number for this.
I know that it is NOT 68104870AA, 68104853AA, 68104870AA or 68104808AA.
I suspect that is is NOT 1YT14JXWAA as this cable appears to have a handle attached to in from the parts diagram. But if someone has a photograph of 1YT14JXWAA, I'd like to see to confirm.

The cable itself has lettering on the jacket near the bottom: "LD321439 D031" but a search on this does not come back with anything useful.

I've called a few Chrysler parts dealers about this and have so far come up empty. One of them suggested that this cable, spring winder, and red strap may come with the entire seat back but I can't confirm this.

I did find the Youtube video showing a 'ganster' fix for this but my cable has broken in a location much higher up than the one in the video so this won't work for me.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCQJbKhY9Q)

There are also some user posts in forums with the same problem but I haven't seen any fixes or replacement parts.

Any help identifying this cable part number would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Grcutter

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Long story short, my seat belt buckle died. I was gonna swap driver and passenger buckles to stop the irritating beeping.

Turns out you can't f*cking do that without pulling the seats. On an older car of mine that was super beater, I simply cut the connector and tied the two wires together. It worked fine.

Did that here because I'm in a pissy mood and having a horrific day, and now my airbag warning light is on. The battery was disconnected, but clearly just jumping the wires doesn't work on this car.

Does anyone happen to have the factory service manual that can tell me what resistance the ECM is looking for at the seat belt buckle connector so I can just add a resistor until I can get a new seat belt buckle in?

I am still new to getting acquainted with my used 2013 Lounge, and I noticed something strange: When turning on the headlights, they come on normally, and I can hear the relay activating, but, I always heard relays subtly "clicking", while my car actually has a noticeable "thump" followed by the lights coming on. The thump is felt inside the car, probably from the BCM area.
Is this normal? The miniature, likely solid state-type relays on the BCM should be almost silent, I would think.