Rear seat belts (side facing seats)

landowner · Mar 7, 2009

Cant find much on the legality of having seat belts or not on the rear side facing seats in my 110.
Cant imagine any belt doing the seat occupant any good in the event of a crash, it would not hold you in!
Full harness would be the answer, so what about the legal side in an '84 110 please

Pikey · Mar 7, 2009

Legal side is very simple you can have any belt you want or none at all for side facing seats. But if carrying children and you want to keep them safely restrained. you can only use an approved child restraint and none of them are approved for use in a side facing seat. So you have the choice of A not using any seatbelts or restraints, or B breaking the law and using the exsisting belts or upgrading to harnesses and using them. Still illegal to use em on a child. So you need to weigh up whether you go for unrestrained or illegally restrained. With adults it becomes their choice whther they use a lapbelt/harness or not.

landowner · Mar 7, 2009

redhand said:
Legal side is very simple you can have any belt you want or none at all for side facing seats. But if carrying children and you want to keep them safely restrained. you can only use an approved child restraint and none of them are approved for use in a side facing seat. So you have the choice of A not using any seatbelts or restraints, or B breaking the law and using the exsisting belts or upgrading to harnesses and using them. Still illegal to use em on a child. So you need to weigh up whether you go for unrestrained or illegally restrained. With adults it becomes their choice whther they use a lapbelt/harness or not.

Ta for that, they are teenagers so are up and fighting each other most of the time so maybe a full height foam bulkhead is the answer, Oh and soundproofing so I cant hear em screaming at each other

jzcktv · Mar 8, 2009

Or a dog guard... ?
Seriously I've been concerned about the seat belt - crash issue for my kids in the back of my 90 (11 and 14 years old) as I take them to school in it every day.

Any suggestions on the harness, anybody fitted one before on those side facing seats and got tips?

HOOK · Mar 8, 2009

if you wedge them in properly with the hi lift and other recovery gear they shouldnt move far.seriously the only ptoper solution is certified and very expensive forward facing seats

wiltshire landyman · Mar 8, 2009

jzcktv said:
Or a dog guard... ?
Seriously I've been concerned about the seat belt - crash issue for my kids in the back of my 90 (11 and 14 years old) as I take them to school in it every day.

Any suggestions on the harness, anybody fitted one before on those side facing seats and got tips?

or make em walk?
or make em take the bus?
the forward facing seats are loverly but bloody exspensive

Pikey · Mar 8, 2009

The common fix seems to be to get a pair of minibus seats with built in seatbelts and fit them. You lose a lot of space, but at least you know they aren't going to be flying around in the vehicle if you have a crash. Once they're over a certain size and weight, the child restraint regs don't apply any more at 11 & 14 I wouldn't think the regs apply anymore,

I had a set of forwards facing folding seats That I bought for the 110. Got em off Ebay for £100. But sold em when I got the disco. They weren't the certified ones but they were just as good.

jzcktv · Mar 9, 2009

Thanks all for the tips on seats and harnesses etc. Hmmm got to think about this.

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