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 sixtysixkicks
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| posted on May 21st, 2011 at 12:26 PM |
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baby car seat in a bug?
I have a 69 beetle and despite everyone trying to talk me into a "family car" want to keep my little buggy even though I am soon to be a mum. I need
to keep some of my identity right, and I think we'd look so cool cruising down to the beach together! 
Anyway, so is it possible to fit a seat in there? Where do you anchor it to without having to drill holes in panels or ruin any body work that the
seat will still be safe and secure?
Am I dreaming?
Any advice, ideas or stories from experience appreciated!
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| posted on May 21st, 2011 at 02:37 PM |
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There is no way around drilling holes. There are no holes now, and the safe belts have to connect to a clip bolted through a hole.
You will need seatbelts also, so that you can slip the seatbelt through the bottom section of the baby capsule.
When running the capsule in reverse when baby is first born, you will have to either take the passenger seat out, or put it so far forward that it
cannot touch the capsule.
Follow the rules and the safety, and it will work. We have two little boys that love it. It was hard when the second one was first born, as one of us
parents could not go in the passenger front seat. We had to use the Kombi then.
Now they are in booster seats, we can all go in the Beetle again.
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| posted on May 21st, 2011 at 02:52 PM |
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Not that hard to have done, cost me $550 and that was for all new belts. Recoil belts in front with lap sash in back with a centre belt, 3 child
restraint points and car engineered for 5 seats.
He loves his seat and looks straight through the front window merrily kicking the back of my seat.
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| posted on June 1st, 2011 at 10:14 PM |
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Hi Guys,
About to pick up a 1970 Beetle and will need to be able to put a 15 month old in the car, so I will need to have some anchor/s put in
Can anyone tell me where I can go to get this done - I am in Sydney's North near Hornsby.
Does it need to be engineered or can I do it? - I have had some thoughts on how to do it but not sure if it would work.
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| posted on June 1st, 2011 at 10:57 PM |
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in nsw it needs to be at least checked by a seat belt fitting station. the rta lists these on its website or you could ring the rta tech support line
and they will point you in the direction of one.
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| posted on June 2nd, 2011 at 02:11 PM |
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lucky you dont live in W.A.
They just changed the regs recently and when I read them I could not work out how you could put a baby capsule in a 2 door car, they seem to have
legislated them out of the options.
They've gone nuts, way beyond practical.
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| posted on June 2nd, 2011 at 08:28 PM |
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Has any one got any recommendations of where to go or what to do
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helbus
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| posted on June 2nd, 2011 at 08:35 PM |
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The information is not hard to find.
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=authrestraintfitting.form
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?fuseaction=authrestraintfitting.a...
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| posted on June 2nd, 2011 at 08:43 PM |
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Thanks helbus
For some reason I was unable to find the info.
I will call a few tomorrow close to me
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