I installed a middle seat and I can tell you that there is no room for any
additional seating. That's a total of six without the three-place front seat
option. Whoever is doing the driving/shifting would need to be real good
friends with whoever was in the front middle. That's a lot of folks in a
vanagon.

As far as I know, there would be no way to put a third belt in the rear
unless you just bootlegged one for a pre-teen or very small adult, and even
that seems unsafe to me.

This is of course a westy I'm talking about.

Jim

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > At 10:56 AM 5/13/2010, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> > >Even with a jump seat, I don't know how you get five friends in the
> > >camper, plus a driver.  the rear seat only seats two, jump seat one,
> > >passenger front seat one; that's 4.  I'm putting in a jump seat, but
> > >that's to bring capacity up to five including driver.
> >
> > Dear Dave,
> > Rear seat is rated for three (three sets of belts),
>
> David, my camper (1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile) has only two sets
> of belts on the rear seat.  The illustrations in the owner's manual only
> illustrate two sets of belts.  In looking at 3-point after market belts
> offered by vendors like GoWesty and others, I see only left and right
>  versions offered, no middle.  The rear seat on the camper is smaller than
> that on non-camper versions of the Vanagon, because of the cabinetry.  The
> kitchen equipment of course takes up space, and has weight, which reduces
> the carrying capacity otherwise of the vehicle.
>
> I believe that three quite small people could sit comfortably in the rear
> seat of my camper, but there is no belt for the middle person, and I would
> not have anyone sit there for that reason.  If the vehicle originally came
> with a third belt there and the weight rating is ok, I may install one to
> offer that option, but it does not appear to me that there was ever one
> there.
>
> Do you have a camper with 3 rear seat belts?
>
> Thanks, David McNeely
>