First, no offence intended to our height challenged bretheren.

But, seat belts across the jugular is not a desired or recommended use of
seat belts.  The condition can lead to sudden separation of ones head from
ones body.  While this may have been all the rage in Henry the Eighths (sp)
time, tis not a desirable effect in the 90's.

SO.  (Now here's where you want to pay attention)  Go out to your van, find
your front shoulder belt UPPER mount point.

Run your finger down about four (4) inches, you will either find a plug
like on SyncroBeast, or, under the fabric, a hole.

Want to guess what that is??  yep, a lower upper shoulder strap mount.
Switch the plug with the belt mount and you are set with a lower shoulder
belt mount by about four inches.

this is either very clever engineering by our favorit black forest elves,
or the mount point for the much desired Carat rear facing jump seats.  It's
been so long since I stripped my Carat that I rolled, that I don't recall
what the belt system was on the jump seats.

Cool.... huh???

Ch

'89 SyncroBeast Vanagon - Soon to come - New Shocks for the Syncro!
                          Soon as I get rid of the rust.   ugh
'87 16V GTI
'80 850 Yamaha Special
'87 16V GTI w/ hale damage - parting out - body gone, parts remain
'89 16V GTI w/ toasted motor
'86 Scirocco (8 valve w/ auto) - SO's - now w/ it's own hale damage

Prior Lake, MinneSnowta  -  Summers here and with it, Mosquitoes!

****SNIP*****
Re: Seat Belts.  I'm short.  Veeerrry short.  This seat belt is killing me.  I
see lots of posts about adding seat belts to the rear in older vans, but
can you
replace the seat belt with something more comfortable?  In addition to wrapping
around my jugular, mine just keeps squeezing and squeezing till I'm ready to
yell uncle.

I've searched the archives and can't find relevant stuff.  Anybody got
suggestions?

Jeanne
'87 Syncro Westy