Safe to move side seatbelt mount points?

[pagetjm]

Hi all.... just wondered if anyone can help. We have a rear conversion in our Bongo and the original bench seat is now in reverse and becomes the bed. Its a bit like the image shown here.....

https://tranzwagon.co.uk/mazda-bongo/blogs-1/

As you can see from the picture, the original seatbelt restraints are in there original position which means that they are useless if you wanted to travel with anyone in the back of the vehicle apart from using the lapbelt which is still in place and can legally be used.

I wondered if anyone knows whether I would be allowed to move the original restraints and re-weld them to the frame of the reversed bench seat so that I end up with the bench seat with three useable seatbelts but still in the reverse position.

Sorry if it sounds complicated, I will try and take some photos of my conversion if anyone doesn't understand what I am asking

Regards

Jason

[Gasy]

Seat belts are not required for rear facing seats
You could move and weld them but they would not have been crash tested
So would never get approval for insurance purposes etc
If you want to move them for kids seats this woundt be acceptable

[Simon Jones]

The threaded inserts for the seat belts are integral part of the bodywork so can be moved as such but you could add extra mounting points. Have a read of this & take a look at the picture I posted which shows on solution of fixing recoil belts to the rear facing seat: http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 47&t=69555

[scanner]

The threaded inserts for the seat belts are integral part of the bodywork so can be moved as such but you could add extra mounting points. Have a read of this & take a look at the picture I posted which shows on solution of fixing recoil belts to the rear facing seat: http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 47&t=69555

I think that should be

so can't be moved as such

shouldn't it?

[Simon Jones]

Bugger, yes. Good spot