At 9:41 PM -0400 6/17/01, R. Hotchkiss wrote: >As it had been mentioned before, VW lost a $16 million dollar lawsuit >back in February. As a result of this, a technical bulletin has been >sent to the dealers about installing shoulder belts on the middle set of >seats and VW PAYS FOR IT! > Does anyone know if this is USA only, or does it apply to Canada as well? And aside from the difficulty of designing a lap belt system that would work for the left rear seat in a westy, I'm not clear why this would not apply to westies as well as passenger vans. Could someone explain? T.
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