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Date:         Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:58:51 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Adding a baby seat to my Westfalia
Comments: To: Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@mts.net>
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> Thanks Ron. I think you have the same part number twice. > The 3 point belt for the drivers side should be > http://busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=253857815D

Woops. Sorry. Yes.

> So at best I can only have a 3 seater Westfalia with 3 point belts? > How did the factory do it?

VW never recommended putting a three-point belt on the driver side rear, even though the correct mount for one is present inside the wardrobe cabinet. I'd suspect this is because they were worried about people not aligning the hole through the cabinet properly (thereby affecting functionality/safety/lawsuits) and/or people questioning why you had to cut holes in your camper cabinet in the first place to put in a 3 point belt.

> I don't suppose any single or double 'middle' seats can be > adapted with 3 point belts in a Westfalia?

I can't speak for double middle seats, as I have not tried that configuration myself. I did not see an surefire way to add a 3-point belt to the rear-facing jumpseat I added to my '87 Westy. I considered mounting a stock front-seat 3-point belt backweads with the upper part mounted below the front seatbelt mount, but was unsure if the tensioner would function properly in the event of an accident. As I was uninclined to crash-test my Vanagon to test this, nor willing to risk learning the hard way that it didn't work, I decided to stick with the stock lap belt for my jumpseat. Better to have a known good (factory-spec) lap belt than a non-stock 3-point belt that could prove at the worst of times to be unsafe.

- Ron Salmon The Bus Depot, Inc. www.busdepot.com (215) 234-VWVW

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