Car Seats (again)

[drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca (drew)]

I had a (former?) lister from the UK ship me a set of UK specific 3 point
belts for the back.  I was then able to use a high-back booster seat
designed to work with 3 point belts.  The low back boosters aren't any
good because the Scirocco back seat is too low, and my son's head is well
above the seat back even when he's not using the booster.

The UK belts are funny - they're not retractable - there's no part number
listed for them in ETKA - they appear to almost have been a dealer-add on,
or at least VW UK's best kept secret. 

A few Euro listers tried to source retractable MK2 rear belts for me to no
avail - they were not a common option in most countries, apparently.  I
have not found another model that uses the same belt - they're specific to
the Scirocco.

Because the UK belts are not retractable, there's not a lot of movement
for the kids - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.... :)





On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, John Erickson wrote:

> I've got a 35 lb. three-year-old I keep buckled up in the 
> back seat.  I have a big car seat with a five point 
> harness that I've been using, but he's getting too big for 
> it and the combination of him and the seat is definitely 
> getting too big for the back seat.  Because we don't have 
> shoulder belts in back, I can't use a regular booster 
> seat.  I need either a booster seat with its own belts and 
> a tether(I haven't been able to find one)or I need to 
> install a shoulder belt in the back.  Have any of you come 
> up with a workable solution?
> 
> BTW, I love keeping the mini-van in the garage and hauling 
> kids in the Scirocco - so do the kids.
> 
> John
> 87 16v
> Long Beach, CA
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Drew MacPherson - '84 Wolfsburg Edition Scirocco TurboDiesel