Seat belt buckles

sergeantcookie

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• Jan 24, 2014

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Hi all, I am just looking at these LAND ROVER DEFENDER SEAT BELT BUCKLE MXC5521 | eBay and was just wondering if they are just a simple case of clipping them on to the seat belt anchors?

Thanks in advance

 

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• Jan 25, 2014

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Yes ive just got one for mine from here land rover discovery 1 rear seat belt buckle.btr 0478 | eBay

 

sergeantcookie

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• Jan 25, 2014

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Was looking at them from there too. Cheers

 

discool

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• Jan 25, 2014

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That it just clip on to the existing steel loop that is bolted to the floor but only on the later D1s, before that similar belt but without the clip and bolted direct to the floor.

 

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sergeantcookie

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• Jan 25, 2014

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You have a picture of the anchor it bolts directly to? Only I may have the one that needs bolting to the floor possibly?

This is what I have on the floor



Would they fit this? Or do I need to look for alternatives?

 

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• Jan 25, 2014

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sergeantcookie said:

You have a picture of the anchor it bolts directly to? Only I may have the one that needs bolting to the floor possibly?

This is what I have on the floor

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Would they fit this? Or do I need to look for alternatives?

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That's it MXC7264but mine looks slightly bigger , u can clip the three ' buckle belts to it, of the three the lap buckle belt is the shorter one IIRC as it's a long time since I looked at my unused rear belts.

 

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sergeantcookie

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• Jan 25, 2014

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I may do without the lap belt for now as 6 seats is more than enough

 

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• Jan 25, 2014

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sergeantcookie said:

I may do without the lap belt for now as 6 seats is more than enough

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Tis an MOT failure if you remove the centre lap belt. Also whilst on the subject of seats Tis also illegal to restrain children using the lap belts on the side facing rear dickie seats.

 

sergeantcookie

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• Jan 25, 2014

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Ill have to get a lapbelt then

 

discool

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• Jan 25, 2014

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Although side facing seats are not illegal, the powers to be now advise that they are no used due to sideways whiplash in an impact, which is I'm told is very iffy to have.

Like lap belts may stop u 'leaving the vehicle' in a crash but little else.

 

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discool said:

Although side facing seats are not illegal, the powers to be now advise that they are no used due to sideways whiplash in an impact, which is I'm told is very iffy to have.

Like lap belts may stop u 'leaving the vehicle' in a crash but little else.

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tin't that the seats themselves are Illegal. But the lapbelts are not "approved restraints" for use by children, who are required to be restrained in a vehicle. In fact there are no approved restraints for side facing seats. As it illegal to use an unapproved child restraint. It then becomes illegal to use a lap belt to restrain a child in sidefacing seat. But you can carry a child unrestrained in a sidefacing seat As long as all the forwards facing seats are occupied by Other Children. If however adults are in the forwards facing seats (driver excluded) then the adult must give up their seat and move onto the side facing seats.