I have a 1996 Discovery. Is it possible to add an over the shoulder seat belt to replace the lap belt in the rear center seat?
Adding a lap belt / Center rear seat
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the only way to have a 3 point belt it to anchor one of the points to a pillar, but that would make the outside belt useless.... so in short no you really can't make a center belt into a 3 point -Andy
Possible, yes. Worth your time? Maybe not
Not exactly. My BMW 750 has three shoulder belts in the back seat. Two anchored at the pillars, the middle anchored to the rear deck. Maybe you could find a shoulder belt tensioner from a junked LR, mount it to the floor in the load space and drape the belo over the seat, anchoring the corner to the existing anchor on one side, using the existing buckle on the other... Make sense?
OTOH, this probably wouldn't meet federal safety standards and you could be liable for a whole heap of lawsuits if someone were injured in an accident while using this setup.
96DiscoSE7 said:
Not exactly. My BMW 750 has three shoulder belts in the back seat. Two anchored at the pillars, the middle anchored to the rear deck. Maybe you could find a shoulder belt tensioner from a junked LR, mount it to the floor in the load space and drape the belo over the seat, anchoring the corner to the existing anchor on one side, using the existing buckle on the other... Make sense?
OTOH, this probably wouldn't meet federal safety standards and you could be liable for a whole heap of lawsuits if someone were injured in an accident while using this setup.
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I can't touch seats or seatbelts, my insurance carrier will not allow it at the shop. If you modify your seatbelts, ... your insurance won't like it and you are likely open to a lot of liability if you ever have an accident and someone is hurt, ... and your insurance company will probably involve you personally via contributory neglegence.
That having been said, the only way I can see it being done would be if there were a beam between the rear shock-tower mounts where a normal-length shoulder harness could mount at seatback level in the center. Mounting a long shoulder-harness at the floor level puts the belt at a significant disadvatage in that it will stretch significantly, and it will pull the passenger downward in a forward collision.
The center lap-only belt is still better IMO than the D1 jump-seats, ...
That having been said, the only way I can see it being done would be if there were a beam between the rear shock-tower mounts where a normal-length shoulder harness could mount at seatback level in the center. Mounting a long shoulder-harness at the floor level puts the belt at a significant disadvatage in that it will stretch significantly, and it will pull the passenger downward in a forward collision.
The center lap-only belt is still better IMO than the D1 jump-seats, ...