[Vwdiesel] 82 VW Rabbit with no lap belt

[Dave Cook]

As I'm thinking about this and typing it, I realize that it is a little silly to be perfectly willing to drive a car with really old seatbelts and not think of it ('73 Beetle and '78 Bus), but I'd be nervous buying seatbelts out of a car in a wrecking yard.

I am very sure that even the rabbits that had the door seatbelts have all the mountings for 3-point belts.  I would be inclined to buy a set of universal belts that would fit that mounting.  It would be pretty easy.

Dave Cook


--- On Wed, 2/25/09, LBaird119 at aol.com <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: LBaird119 at aol.com <LBaird119 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 82 VW Rabbit with no lap belt
> To: Vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 1:34 AM
> In a message dated 2/24/2009 1:22:39 PM Pacific Standard
> Time, 
> vwzoo at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> >  Here's the question. It has a shoulder belt that
> goes across and clicks 
> > into the door, but there is no lap belt. My wife wants
> me to put some sort of 
> > lap belt in it before my son gets it. Do any you know
> how I would do that or 
> > where I would get the belts? 
> > 
> 
>   It has the "automatic" seat belts.  It's
> clipped to the door so 
> when you shut the door, your shoulder strap is on and in
> place.  
> The stupid knee bar is there to break your legs and be in
> place 
> of a lap belt.  ;-)  I personally don't like them and
> would swap 
> them out and eliminate the knee bar too.
>   Some had them, some didn't.  Doesn't seem to be
> particularly 
> year or model dependant.  Just check the wrecking yards.
>     Loren
> 
> 
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