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Date:         Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:33:16 +0100
Reply-To:     Erik Valeur <erikvaleur@SVERIGE.NU>
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From:         Erik Valeur <erikvaleur@SVERIGE.NU>
Subject:      Re: wire thingys on '87-'91 vanagon front seatbelts??
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In-Reply-To:  <3C698804.A9ABDF51@musclefish.com>
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Jim,

DON'T do it that way. The wire thingy isn't strong enough to hold the belt in a crash. In a crash the wire thingy will let go, then the boosterseat all of a sudden is belted with two feet of slack!

Erik V.

Citerat från Jim Wheaton <jim@MUSCLEFISH.COM>:

> I uses these "wire thingy's" when fitting my child's booster seat into > the > front seat. The booster seat really wants a "lap belt" going through > the > underneath part of the seat. If you take the seat belt strap coming > from > the ceiling section of the car and run it through the "wire thingy", > then it > becomes an effect "lap belt". No need to run the lower belt (that > attaches to > the frame next to the seat) through the wire. > > I hope that is what it was intended for! > > Jim > '90 Multivan >

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