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Subject:Re: wire thingys on '87-'91 vanagon front seatbelts?? MYSTERYMETAL?
From:Erik Valeur
Date:Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:33:16 +0100

Jim,

DON'T do it that way. The wire thingy isn't strong enough to hold the belt in a
crash. In a crash the wire thingy will let go, then the boosterseat all of a
sudden is belted with two feet of slack!

Erik V.

Citerat fr�n Jim Wheaton <jim@MUSCLEFISH.COM>:

> I uses these "wire thingy's" when fitting my child's booster seat into
> the
> front seat.  The booster seat really wants a "lap belt" going through
> the
> underneath part of the seat.  If you take the seat belt strap coming
> from
> the ceiling section of the car and run it through the "wire thingy",
> then it
> becomes an effect "lap belt".   No need to run the lower belt (that
> attaches to
> the frame next to the seat) through the wire.
>
> I hope that is what it was intended for!
>
> Jim
> '90 Multivan
>

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