ANOTHER harness question

17th May 2008, 04:09

I know what ur gna think ... "Another harness/ bucket seat thread" - I extend many apologies. Just a Quick question and i will be outa your hair. I am geting reclining buckets. I want to retain my back seats (for now - gonna think about a false floor to encorperate spare wheel etc). After hearing about the merits of harnesses and seats combined, and the fact that saxos are made of tissue paper and glue, i want to have harnesses. Now heres the stumbling block. I have 3 point harnesses coming with the seats and dont fancy shelling out more money on unclipable harnesses when the likelihood is i will be having 1/2 passengers max in my car, and i dont particularily care about their comfort (they should get their own sodding car). Can i fix 3 point harneses and still use the back seats (preferably without throttling a mate in the process) I dont care about the difficulty geting in the car for them, just dont want them to be unsafe etc. Cheers guys

17th May 2008, 13:38

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Originally Posted by gdex2008

I know what ur gna think ... "Another harness/ bucket seat thread" - I extend many apologies. Just a Quick question and i will be outa your hair. I am geting reclining buckets. I want to retain my back seats (for now - gonna think about a false floor to encorperate spare wheel etc). After hearing about the merits of harnesses and seats combined, and the fact that saxos are made of tissue paper and glue, i want to have harnesses. Now heres the stumbling block. I have 3 point harnesses coming with the seats and dont fancy shelling out more money on unclipable harnesses when the likelihood is i will be having 1/2 passengers max in my car, and i dont particularily care about their comfort (they should get their own sodding car). Can i fix 3 point harneses and still use the back seats (preferably without throttling a mate in the process) I dont care about the difficulty geting in the car for them, just dont want them to be unsafe etc. Cheers guys

have the harnesses, for the front to seats, and make passenger sit in the middle. easy fix.

hope that has inspired you

17th May 2008, 13:40

yeah ive had 5 people in my car me and 4 other adults and i have 3 point harnesses with recliners......they can just sit round the harness that goes into where the rear seat buckle is....

17th May 2008, 13:49

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Originally Posted by Baz

yeah ive had 5 people in my car me and 4 other adults and i have 3 point harnesses with recliners......they can just sit round the harness that goes into where the rear seat buckle is....

you shitting me?

17th May 2008, 14:48

has anyone got any pics of these set ups?? and thanx for the info guys

17th May 2008, 14:50

this is the only way i would run harnesses if you were doing it like that, i would not be comfy putting a rear bench in and carrying passengers :|

17th May 2008, 15:14

hmm i value your opinion and to be honest i am 50/50 - just as i have never had harnesses before so i dont know what protocol is etc. Does it make much difference when you strip the back seats out?? also - how much do the sabelt harnesses retail for? had a wuick look but i just seem to get really poorly constructed sites coming up with no prices.

17th May 2008, 15:28

got my sabelt's for bout 130 ish from tweeks, but got some discount.

removing the rear bench will make it a bit lighter, but if you carry passengers now, then you will probably want to in the future...

i would be concerned about your passengers safety in an accident if you were running harnesses - chances are there wouldnt be much left of them if they were sat in the middle of the harnesses

17th May 2008, 17:26

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Originally Posted by pjm300

you shitting me?

hell no, was well funny, car was on bumpstops haha. No pics though of how its set up

17th May 2008, 17:54

i also have the problem of never having fitted 3 point harnesses (and have just bought fixed buckets with sliding subframes n harnesses, i want to retain the rear seats but duno how to do it??????????? rep for all who can help...pics wud be good

17th May 2008, 18:00

i must say my first thought was that they would act as some sort of deadly device in a hard ish accident. The only reason i have backseats is that i live in a house with 5 other lads and we only have one other car between us (and he is a dick and wont do a favour for anyone) so i end up driving to asda etc. BUT thats all gonna change. I am gonna make a boot build/false floor over summer and then decide.
Also, aint it a bit of a faf taking the sabelt harnesses out if u just wana quickly run a few mates down for a kick about?

17th May 2008, 18:11

put the harnesses to the center of the rear bench, where the clip part of the belt is, and the people can sit either side of the harnesses

17th May 2008, 18:17

okies cool. I had heard that idea before but didnt take in what was said that much and thus thought i understood it wrong. I am gna wait till i get my seats i recon then see how it all lays out. I need to source some Corbeau subs first before any of this really matters - so it would be a long wait. Cheers for your speedy and helpful replies guys