seat belts

[2001se]

what car are the seat belts off and how hard is it to fit new ones

[dickymint]

edited to say............
comment deleted on the grounds that i could have been wrong! sorry.

>> Edited by dickymint on Sunday 26th September 21:14

[bobfrance]

Seemed like a reasonable enough question to me.

Shouldn't be too hard to change. As I recall the most akward bit will be undoing the big bolt that secures the inertia reel. It's hidden beneath the trim behind the seat. Usually water ingress gathers there and causes rust.
It's worth checking this since you want to be sure you'r seatbelt is firmly secured. (makes mental note to check this on the new wedge)

'Fraid I don't know where the belts are from though.

I wonder, has anyone fitted harnesses?

[jmorgan]

I bought an after market joby but it wasn't going to fit. £25. Went down the scrappy (I know, should have done that first) and 2 quid for the anchor that I was after. Allegro I think? But that was mine and I had the part in hand.

Someone in the S Wales club had a harnes fitted without a roll over and used a very large anchor metal plate bar type thing in the boot for the rear. Not sure about the other anchor points.

[wedg1e]

IIRC either the old Mini or Metro belts, but I forget which, had the correct fittings to bolt straight in.

I'm sure that plenty of other Brit stuff used the same fittings (Maestro, perhaps?).

Ian

[SEvans]

Have you seen this old thread on the subject?
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=105602&f=12&h=0&hw=seat+belts

[paul gotts]

Tower view fitted a harness mount in my 400 a few years ago (I think it's covered in the Bible, or was a SH article in Sprint). I use a three point harness picking up the two existing lower mounts and the new mount into which an eye bolt screws, protruding through the rear shelf.

[bobfrance]

Cheers for that guys - very helpful.

Has anyone got any more info on harnesses?
I'm starting to think a harness might be good (something to do with the many hours spent behind the metal steering wheel of TVR's, wondering I'f I'd head-butt in a crash).