Do I have to install seatbelts?

Katchel7 · Post by **Katchel7** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:39 pm

Hello, my FB does not have seatbelts. I have been told that i cannot carry children in the car if they are not restrained by a seatbelt....i am in SA. ?

Cheers

Kat

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:02 pm

Kat,

If you value your life and that of your kids, please install approved seatbelts and child restraints whether you have to or not

Thommo · Post by **Thommo** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:43 pm

The car does not have to be fitted with seat belts if it was not manufactured with them,
the choice is yours.

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:17 pm

seatbelts suck, BUT when my kids were little i jumped on the brakes shooting one of my kids off her seat

luckilly unhurt

so if yor carrying kids i'de say not a bad idea

adults well can make there own mind up
another tip don't know about SA but NSW if there is seatbelts in the rear only (if yor thinking of that) all seatbelted seats are to be used by passengers before unseatbelted seats

karting dad · Post by **karting dad** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:32 pm

Sorry to hi-jack the thread but....

Do I need seatbelts fitted in WA to get the EK registered?
It has never had them installed previously.

Thanks

Harko · Post by **Harko** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:50 pm

I believe NSW rule is if the car rego has run out and lapsed over the three month period , It becomes a fresh rego and its compulsory to fit seat belts.
If its modified in any way (possibly engineers report only)- seat belts.

If it is just a yearly rego renewal no seatbelts unless already fitted.

So dont ever let your rego expire if you want to keep it original.

This is what I believed from a few years ago , To update your knowledge look on the rta site.

ejdave · Post by **ejdave** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:09 pm

In NSW, you dont have to have seatbelts fitted if the car was built before 1967 (when seatbelts became ADR Comp in NSW) and if the the car hasnt had seatbelts fitted at any time since.
So basically, if someone has bored the holes in the B piller for the top attachment, you cant just remove the belts and say it doesnt have any.
If its never had belts fitted, you dont legally have to have them. I am an authorised restraint fitter through my work, and did a refresher course in 2008. If the laws been changed since then, I havent heard about it.

My EH had belts fitted to the front, but not in the back, and I was very hesitant to have anyone ride in it until it did. MY FJ and EJ dont have belts, are dead stock, and im undecided about fitting them. The kids will not be allowed to ride in it until they are, and I get a little nervous driving without a belt. (the belt will only hold you in place while the non collapsable steering coloum passes into your upper torso - stops the passanger getting cut in half by the open glovebox lid though)
Dave

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:54 am

ratbox wrote:seatbelts suck,

Yeh, pesky darn things that save you life

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I don't know why you think that

, Trev

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EKjimmy · Post by **EKjimmy** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:07 am

either that or stick a heap of foam to the dash like in that car insurance ad

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:16 am

Trev wrote:
ratbox wrote:seatbelts suck,
Yeh, pesky darn things that save you life .
I don't know why you think that , Trev .

just hate them prolly cause i grew up without them can't i have an opinion

like somebody else said hold you in place while the non collapsable collum spears you, they are good for stopping you being chucked around in a car, plenty of people still die wearing them, i was a passenger in an accident where the only person that died was 1 of the only 2 people in the car wearing a seatbelt me and everybody else walked away with only very minor inuries, when yor number's up yor number is up

Post by **Blacky** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:30 am

I cant understand people who wont wear seatbelts , for every one story like yours Ratbox theres hundreds of storys that tell exactly the opposite , several have died from piddly accidents that they would have walked away from if they were wearing seatbelts.

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:26 am

how do you know that

these are only educated guesses, plenty of people still die in shitty smashes in cars with all the saftey gear
just cause I have an opinion that I don't like them doesn't mean I'M telling everybody else not to wear or not like them

if everybody would like to make note of the posative comment i made in my first post about fitting them

rather than trying to have ANOTHER go at me for the negative that is my opinion and my opinion only that I don't like them

Post by **Blacky** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:51 am

I'm not having a go at ya Ratbox - all I am doing is expressing MY opinion

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:07 pm

Don't get too sensitive RB it just shocked me that someone could hate seatbelts, its like saying helmet laws suck when riding a motorbike

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Katchel7 · Post by **Katchel7** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:36 pm

Wow

well not that i intended to start a major debate on it - was just after some opinions...which I got...so thanks...I think

Anyway I will probably install at the back and not the front...now I just need to find out where to get them from. I dont really want the traditional black seatbelts, I was thinking of some lap sashes - does anyone know how to install them....may I will just take the car to someone to have them professionally installed. Once again guys thanks - nothing like a robust conversation to brighten the day