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Post by chrisyoung73 on May 13, 2014 7:16:59 GMT 1
Thanks Irishtransit, just need to attach an anchor, I guess to the floor behind the seat.
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Post by FredTransit on May 13, 2014 9:30:20 GMT 1
If it helps, the anbies have a massive heavy angle iron bolted to the structure of the body. The lap belts are bolted to that it will be a mission to find your vans ribs though
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Post by irishtransit on May 13, 2014 13:31:14 GMT 1
i'm not really technically minded but could you not find the rib on either side on the van and weld on a couple of brackets then attach a bar that would fix across the van in the brackets.on the bar you could attach the mounts for the seat belts (3 point or harness) for the seats then when not driving the bar could be removed and put on the floor.only an idea.
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Post by phorbiuz on May 13, 2014 21:33:35 GMT 1
You have the same layout as me.
For a 3 point belt you obviously have the 2 on the floor and one at roughly shoulder height to the side. The floor bolts are easy enough but upper ones aren't. You might be able to do this on the o/s as there's a pillar there behind the carpet type panel. That panel was glued/bonded and screwed on mine but behind it a metal rib. You have no chance at all of doing this on the n/s due to the window.
As has been said, you could possibly fabricate a bar that goes from the floor up the side and fixes above the window, to which a welded mounting point could fit the 3 point higher bolt. Fixing the bar at the top would require welding unless you put bolts and spacers through the panel which I think would look daft. If that was done on mine I'd lose the upper bunk beds.
I'm not sure your harness approach will be ideal either. In my mind to work properly it can't simply go back down the back of the seat to the floor as these seats aren't fixed. The forward movement of an upper body on impact and the whole seat back moves forward too including the harness. I think you'd need to have the harness further back which would mean adapting the existing cupboards or cooker.
All of this will involve damaging the fittings and fixtures to a greater or lesser extent.
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Post by chrisyoung73 on May 14, 2014 7:28:42 GMT 1
Thanks guys, have decided to start with the lap belts as I can secure at least my youngest's car seat with these. Worse case the 5 year old can sit in the front and my wife in the back.
I take the point re the harness and strength of the seat but as the child seats are high backed I still think this could work as the highest point would be the back of these rather than the van seat.
We'll try our first trip and see how it is, but in the long run, ie after this summer will have to try one of these options - am thinking the 2 floor fixings for the lap belts will also work in the future if and when we find a solution for the 3 pointers.
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Post by dodgerover on May 14, 2014 8:59:27 GMT 1
Hi, what about fitting a dual passenger seat and putting the kids on that in their car seats and your other half could sit in the back? It's not like they will be doing it all day everyday. I can get my twins on their booster seats on the passenger seat although it is a little tight to get to the seat belt mounts the bit they clip into so a bit of thinking ahead is required.
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Post by phorbiuz on May 14, 2014 19:58:52 GMT 1
I considered that approach too dodgerover when I bought mine. Ultimately though I had to rule it out as the front seats fold flat if you want to make 2 long single beds. I don't think the twin seat could.
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Post by corktina on May 15, 2014 10:34:48 GMT 1
would your kids not need to be in child seats anyway at their age in which case wouldn't lap belts be perfectly adequate? Maybe the law is different in Ireland and I'm not up to speed but I thought you needed special seats up to about 10 nowadays
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Post by corktina on May 15, 2014 10:39:11 GMT 1
I considered that approach too dodgerover when I bought mine. Ultimately though I had to rule it out as the front seats fold flat if you want to make 2 long single beds. I don't think the twin seat could. yes I noticed that in the pics...neat idea. I fitted a double seat to mine so that my Daughter and Bo could borrow camper and add babyseat alongside Mum on the double....but then again my bed is at the rear
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