Centre seat seatbelt

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sprie

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I am slowly making progress getting the seats installed. However, having got the centre seat in place, I cannot work out how to squeeze the retracting part of the belt behind the seats. There is neither room for it behind the centre seat nor the passenger seat.

As you can see in the photos, I have small L-shaped brackets bolted through the body into the strong brackets underneath the car

All I can think of is that I need to make a different L-shaped bracket, where the vertical part is about 6 inches long, so that I can have the retracting part above the seat rather than behind it.

There must be a standard way to do this. Any advice?
 

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Is your vehicle legally required to have a centre seat belt ?
My 1970 88 diesel still has the original belts fitted, and they're only fitted to the OS and NS seats, nothing on the middle seat.
TBH I thought that this would mean an MOT fail, but the MOT tester passed it every year.
 
I suspect you are right, but I want the seat belts so passengers are safe - there are too many bad drivers out there.
 
I did actually question why a centre belt wasn't mandatory, which on reflection, was probably asking for trouble, and the testers reply was that, to the best of his knowledge, the only belt you could fit there would be a lap belt, and they were considered to be potentially dangerous, as they swung the passengers head straight into the metal dash.
How things have changed.
Now they'd be demanding a complete redesign of the vehicle in order to get type approval
 
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