how to secure bucket seat harnesses - Saxperience

Morgiee · 22nd August 2009, 00:09

hi do you secure bucket seat harnesses so that you can stil have passangers in the back. you can link them up to a rail in the boot as standard but i want to secure them on the floor directely behind the seat. How do you do this? do you have to get a specialist to fit them? or can you do them yourself?

Thanks

Morgiee · 22nd August 2009, 11:49

hi anyone to help?

Morgiee · 22nd August 2009, 18:57

anyone at all?

miamibluebaby · 22nd August 2009, 19:17

you can buy a three point harness that has another buckle at the back so can easily be uncliped to alow you to carry pasangers, and use your original belts have a look on deamon tweeks website for the exact make/modle

Morgiee · 22nd August 2009, 21:47

but how do you secure them to the floor?

Morgiee · 23rd August 2009, 20:58

??????

-E-N-Z-O- · 23rd August 2009, 22:06

I dunno how safe it would be having the harness positioned that way. However, to do it you would have to drill through the floor and then reinforce it with a plate either side. Dunno if it would pass an MOT though.

Mango_Wes · 24th August 2009, 05:33

If you have taken out your rear seats' Use your old seatbelt bolts and bolt them where your old seatbelts used to bolt to.

Or, You can have them on your C and D pillars where are the points where when you open your boot, you can see them on the left and right as soon as you open your boot, your have to unbolt your rear seatbelts and bolt the rear of the harness onto it

Morgiee · 24th August 2009, 09:48

butthis would make it hard for rear passangers to get in mate. iv seen them go drectely below the front seat so that access to the back is still possible

LeeBBH · 24th August 2009, 10:06

If your this unsure mate i would suggest taking it to a specialised garage to do.
Seat belts are quite important

iw_laurence · 24th August 2009, 10:17

if the angle of the harness is over 45degrees from were it leaves the seat it can be unsafe, ideally you would want it at 0 to 45 degrees as it keeps the stress on the harnesses down.

pjm300 · 24th August 2009, 10:37

dont run harnesses if you're still keeping passengers in the back

andymiller_VTR · 24th August 2009, 11:39

the only way im aware of you can run passengers in the back with harnesses is to run the harness though the gap in the rear seat. for example between where the back of the seat and the base meet. then bolt them too the same bolt as the rear seatbelt clips.

However make sure the bolts have enought thread still in the hole!!! Do not use them if there not properly tightened.

PUG1OFF · 24th August 2009, 14:42

hi mate i have harnesses in myne but iv striped myne out. iv bolted myne to the boot floor tho and still passes mot . but i no wat u mean. but theres only 1 prob wi that it wont pass mot and if u run ur harness strait to the floor behind driver and passenger seat if u have a crash youll brake both of your shoulders and maybe even your neck. so just think about it a little it took me 3 or 4 days of playin about with them to get them in the rite spot

Morgiee · 24th August 2009, 21:22

cheers guys that helps ill have to look into it. how about i get the three point harness and bolt them to the front seat belt rail

Mike-VTR · 24th August 2009, 22:56

rear point bolts to where your rear belts come down from (D pillars)

front to bolt in wear your seat belts came out.

you CAN'T have harnesses and rear seats

titchster · 25th August 2009, 01:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike-VTR

rear point bolts to where your rear belts come down from (D pillars)

So if someone goes into the back of you and the C (there's only A, B and C

) pillars crumple forwards, the harness slackens and you go forwards too?
Should be mounted to where the buckles go (underneath the rear bench), preferably with a spreader plate (although most people don't tend to).

PUG1OFF · 25th August 2009, 10:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morgiee

cheers guys that helps ill have to look into it. how about i get the three point harness and bolt them to the front seat belt rail

on your seat frame at the side of the handbrake u will have a buckle for 1 and then just unbolt ur front lower seatbelt rail and bolt other side to that and then the rear strap fasen as far back as you can or as high up as u can just play about with them youll get it in the end . but get rid of them rear seats

Mike-VTR · 25th August 2009, 21:33

Yeah the c is next to the d, typo

c pillar is safe enough to use and your shoulders dont
get crushed if get hit head on.

Its just a case of where are you least likely to get rammed

Morgiee · 26th August 2009, 21:40

so how come you can see cars with harnesses that are bolted to the floor? dont get it so no way in hell with the rear seats in i can have harnesses