Volks, My son can't ride in the double cab any longer now that he has a forward facing child seat as there is no place to attach the rear harness from the seat. I do NOT want to drill holes in the rear wall of my truck. The front seats are #$@% Ford Aerostar seats that have no seperate head rests that one could put a strap through to fasten to the battery compartment. The only solution that I can think of is to get two metal plates that would fasten on to the same bolt that the existing rear shoulder straps use. Then weld a 1" metal rod to these metal plates that run from side to side. My thinking behind this is that I would run the child seat strap up and over top of this rod and attach it to where the center lap belt would normally attach. This way in the event of an accident the force of the seat moving forward would redirected downward to where the existing lap belt used to be - the metal bar that is acting as a folkrum [ whoa - spelling mistake! ] point is attached to existing seat belt locations. -- David Marshall - Vanagon List Admin - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 87 Audi 5KSQ, 85 VW Cabriolet -- -- 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab, WANTED: VW / Bombardier Iltis -- -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) -- |
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