Any suggestions for new inertia front seat belts for my D special?
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A company called APV-S Safety Products, have been able to supply retractable seat belts, front and rear, via Repco for my DS. Their website shows a complex grid of styles to fit most car models. Good advice over the phone too.
Ken
I'll see what I can do with some pics in the morning Mark. But once you get the correct units, they will bolt in to the mountings which were already in my car. Very straight forward job.
Ken
I'll repeat past-expressed reasons on request but I advise against fitted retractable belts, they're more dangerous than properly adjusted fixed ones.
They can roll/wind up on the spool and end up not as ideally adjusted as hoped in a decent crash, yes. That's a fair consideration and often overlooked or just not known by many people. It is overcome by pyrotechnic tensioners in modern vehicles. However, in the context of safety and cars, that's probably not as much of a worry as choosing to drive a 45yo+ DS. The whole car is fundamentally not very safe compared to almost anything current you might point at. The paranoid should just buy a new car and be done with it.
I would argue the safest way to wear any seat belt is to drive a car within the speed limits and defensively, that should push your survivability way up. : )
Thanks. I'll give it a go...Mick, try reaching around to the hand brake lever with your left hand. That's what I did in my 1963 ID19, which had fixed belts.
Roger