Fitting 3 point harness instead of lapbelt to bench seat.

[gazza]

Has anyone successfully fitted a 3 point seat belt in replacement of the lapbelt on the middle bench seat.

I like the idea of having the 3 kids across the bench seat with all the stuff in the boot area.

I notice a company called securon sell a kit. Has anyone fittted one of these?

[apole]

Hi there,

The issue is really with safety here. The original seat wasn't designed to take the stresses placed upon the backrest by a 3 point belt.

After a lot of debate and research I did get some 3 point belts fitted to my camper conversion. These are not crash tested but I figured that in a roll over I would be better off than just a lap belt.

I make sure the passengers either sit on the rearmost seat with the proper factory 3 point belt, or in the rearward facing seat as I figured that was the safest I could do in the limited choices I had.

Overall the reality is that the car wasn't designed or crash tested to give us proper 3 way belts everywhere, so anthing you do is a compromise which is a shame.

Company I used a couple of years back was Autosafe Seatbelts, they come to you.

www.Auto-Safe.co.uk


Hope this helps but don't expect anything like this to be as good as what the maker would do at the factory.

Andy

[scanner]

It all depends where the kit uses as the 3rd point if it's the seat itself it will be no better than a lap belt - in fact probably worse as it will ensure the seat folds up and eats you.

[dunslair]

I recall seeing a post a couple of days ago. Madmile had a picture of a 'naked 'seat, you could see the structure of the frame. clearly designed for the loading exerted by a lap belt in the middle. Not sure it's something I would like to compromise on

[Doone]

Yes madmile did mention it, the post is HERE