Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:51:53 -0700
Reply-To: Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: vanagon camper seating capacity
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I know a few people who have added a seat belt in the rear seat for
kids.... wow how do you people even get he courage up to brave the
roads??
i am only 33 and people hardly wore seat belts when i was a kid....
way more people lived then died
J
On 13-May-10, at 10:42 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
> I installed a middle seat and I can tell you that there is no room
> for any
> additional seating. That's a total of six without the three-place
> front seat
> option. Whoever is doing the driving/shifting would need to be real
> good
> friends with whoever was in the front middle. That's a lot of folks
> in a
> vanagon.
>
> As far as I know, there would be no way to put a third belt in the
> rear
> unless you just bootlegged one for a pre-teen or very small adult,
> and even
> that seems unsafe to me.
>
> This is of course a westy I'm talking about.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>> At 10:56 AM 5/13/2010, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>>>> Even with a jump seat, I don't know how you get five friends in the
>>>> camper, plus a driver. the rear seat only seats two, jump seat
>>>> one,
>>>> passenger front seat one; that's 4. I'm putting in a jump seat,
>>>> but
>>>> that's to bring capacity up to five including driver.
>>>
>>> Dear Dave,
>>> Rear seat is rated for three (three sets of belts),
>>
>> David, my camper (1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile) has only
>> two sets
>> of belts on the rear seat. The illustrations in the owner's manual
>> only
>> illustrate two sets of belts. In looking at 3-point after market
>> belts
>> offered by vendors like GoWesty and others, I see only left and right
>> versions offered, no middle. The rear seat on the camper is
>> smaller than
>> that on non-camper versions of the Vanagon, because of the
>> cabinetry. The
>> kitchen equipment of course takes up space, and has weight, which
>> reduces
>> the carrying capacity otherwise of the vehicle.
>>
>> I believe that three quite small people could sit comfortably in
>> the rear
>> seat of my camper, but there is no belt for the middle person, and
>> I would
>> not have anyone sit there for that reason. If the vehicle
>> originally came
>> with a third belt there and the weight rating is ok, I may install
>> one to
>> offer that option, but it does not appear to me that there was ever
>> one
>> there.
>>
>> Do you have a camper with 3 rear seat belts?
>>
>> Thanks, David McNeely
>>
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