Date:         Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:31:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From:         Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Middle Seat Shoulder Belts VW PAYS--CANADA?
Comments: To: "R. Hotchkiss" <hotch@HOTSTRINGS-INC.COM>
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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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