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Adding/changin rear set for 3 people??
Topic Started: Dec 9 2010, 10:40 AM (2,685 Views)
yoshiki2
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can you add a seat belt? Or replace the rear seats? (3 cyl metro)
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metro_fiend
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well under each little seatbelt slot theres a bolt, and i guess if you found a middle seatbelt outta another car no reason why you couldnt hook it up to them. I used to load my car up with people everyday (highschool) . And here its legal to have as many people you can fit in your car as long as all availible seat belts are used.
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Jim-Bob
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It all depends... do you intend to transport 3 American-sized adults or three children or little people? Putting even one adult in the back seat of a Metro is so cruel that it is defined as torture under the Geneva Convention. Putting three back there is enough to make them put a hit out on you.
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nerys
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I am one such criminal :-) 3 people in the back. teenagers but not SMALL teenagers. I kept it slow because I was really freaked at not having a seatbelt for the middle person car took it fine and it was funny to see the face of people as they noticed 5 people exit this little car :-)

never again though. I am super anal about seat belts.
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yoshiki2
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i put some of my coworkers.. (one of them had his car towed away..).. but we'll be going really far.. and I was thinking about a car with similar seats...
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I am super anal about seat belts.

Me too. I've told people the car wasn't moving until the belt was clicked.
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zcrayfish
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Dec 9 2010, 10:08 PM
Me too. I've told people the car wasn't moving until the belt was clicked.
My new car beeps continuously until all passengers are annoyed enough to buckle up, I love it. :D
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Potter
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Ive done some illegal activities as well.... 8 ppl in mine @ one time... we where all strapped in one way or another lol.

but when i would haul 3 wide in the back seat we would cross the seat belts that way the person in the middle had a lap belt of a sort.

what Metro Fiend said is correct you can pull a center belt out of another vehicle and bolt it down where the other 2 receivers are mounted and be fine.
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Jim-Bob
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I am anal about seat belts as well. That's why I can't carry any passengers in my truck right now. The driver's side seat belt buckle wore out at 359,000 miles so I swapped it for the passenger's buckle. I have yet to find a replacement part for the missing one so all that sits in the passenger's side is pizza. Also the truck's airbags no longer work either so in an accident you would be very screwed.
Edited by Jim-Bob, Dec 11 2010, 02:48 AM.
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Coche Blanco just realized there were two kinds of 'anal'.
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Yes, 1.) Analagrams and 2.) Analagies.
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nerys
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Grr

airbags are not all that useful in an accident if your belted in really. I think airbags (at least how they are deployed in the US) are more dangerous than without.

but if your tall enough to "reach" the windscreen or dash with your head they might help if your not tall enough they might not help and might hurt.
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Shinrin
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My dad added a seat belt in the back of his truck. Just remove the back seat, check the spot you plan to put it and make sue there's nothing directly under it. Drill a hole into it, put a bolt through it, attach seat belt to the bolt. Cut a hole in the seat to lace the belt through it. Should take like 20 minutes. As long as you don't drill a hole into the transmission...or muffler...or gas tank..Ect Ect. My dad almost drilled into his gas tank, blind luck saved him.

Alternatively you could just tie it together directly under the seat, without drilling holes in the floor. Would be a lot easier but potentially not as secure. Just cut the right sized holes in the seat and string it together underneath.
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Jim-Bob
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nerys
Dec 12 2010, 12:06 PM
airbags are not all that useful in an accident if your belted in really. I think airbags (at least how they are deployed in the US) are more dangerous than without.

but if your tall enough to "reach" the windscreen or dash with your head they might help if your not tall enough they might not help and might hurt.
I used to think that too-until I started watching crash tests. You see, the problem is that many cars flex quite a bit in an accident but then snap back a few inches when it is all done. This flexing, along with the slack that naturally exists in a seat belt, allows the person's head to move much further forward than you would normally be able to when sitting in a car belted in. Seat belt pretensioners help a little bit in this regard, but airbags restrict movement considerably more than the seat belt can. Sit down for an hour or two and watch crash tests. The experience will change your opinion on the effectiveness of airbags, not to mention the superiority of the safety cells of newer cars when compared to older models. The stiffer roof structures make a HUGE difference in terms of occupant safety.
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nerys
Dec 12 2010, 12:06 PM
airbags are not all that useful in an accident if your belted in really. I think airbags (at least how they are deployed in the US) are more dangerous than without.

but if your tall enough to "reach" the windscreen or dash with your head they might help if your not tall enough they might not help and might hurt.
Having completely totaled a car by flipping through the air at least fifty feet then landing hard enough to roll the car multiple times to destroy every side of it and break the seat and the axles. The car looked like an ugly U when all was done. I had my seatbelt on that is what kept me in the car. The airbag is what kept me alive. Nerys you say if our tall enough to reach the windscreen or dash? I don't even know what a "windscreen" is nor do i care. Screw the dash. The steering wheel would have killed me as bad as the wreck was if it was not for the airbag keeping me away from it.
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