At 9:05 PM 10/7/98, Frank LaHorgue wrote: >The funny part of all this is that the Service Manager and the Parts >Manager, both long time employees at my local VW Dealer, told me that there >were no kits for installing shoulder belts in my Vanagon. Furthermore, "if >such things were available, it would be ILLEGAL for me to install them," >they said. > HAH! They said similar things when I installed the shoulder belts in my '62 European Delivery 113 Type 1, IN 1962! A cousin sent me the belt set from Germany after I had already shipped the car to the US. Dealer insisted that they were illegal even though the car had the attachment points built-in!
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