At 9:41 PM -0400 6/17/01, R. Hotchkiss wrote:
>As it had been mentioned before, VW lost a $16 million dollar lawsuit
>back in February.  As a result of this, a technical bulletin has been
>sent to the dealers about installing shoulder belts on the middle set of
>seats and VW PAYS FOR IT!
>

Does anyone know if this is USA only, or does it apply to Canada as well?

And aside from the difficulty of designing a lap belt system that
would work for the left rear seat in a westy, I'm not clear why this
would not apply to westies as well as passenger vans.  Could someone
explain?

T.

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