

| Subject: | Re: Shoulder belts INSTALLED! |
| From: | David Marshall |
| Date: | Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:28:44 -0700 |
They said the same thing about the three point harnesses in my mum's 78 Rabbit too... all the mounting points are there! At 21:05 10/7/98 +0100, Frank LaHorgue wrote: >Many thanks to Joel Walker, Jim Davis and Helmut Zeidler for their competent >help with my seat belt issue. I installed the belts this morning into my >86GL just in time for my grand-kids to ride this weekend. They work great >and cost me less than $150 for all the parts. That's the best price I have >had on any VW part in years. > >The funny part of all this is that the Service Manager and the Parts >Manager, both long time employees at my local VW Dealer, told me that there >were no kits for installing shoulder belts in my Vanagon. Furthermore, "if >such things were available, it would be ILLEGAL for me to install them," >they said. > >They sat in stony faced silence when the part numbers I gave them showed up >on their inventory lists. > >Thanks again -- Frank LaHorgue > > -- David Marshall Quesnel BC Canada mailto:david@volkswagen.org -- -- 73 Audi 100LS, 78 1.8L VW Rabbit, 80 2.0L VW Caddy -- -- 87 Audi 5KQ, 85 1.8L VW Cabrio, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab -- -- Volkswagen Homepage http://www.volkswagen.org --
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