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MG MG Y Type - YB Seat Belts


I would like some advise on fitting Front seat belts to a 1953 MG YB. Has anyone any recommendations as to fittings and Type.
V Rich

Morning,
Personally I think seat belts in an old car like Y Type are a false sense of security, as the anchor points and other features of the car are also less safe than modern cars i.e. don't have crumple zones, and the Y still has a big steel steering column that would cause the driver some discomfort etc in event of crash. The best advice I feel is drive the car in accordance to it's design i.e. not too fast, stick to rural country roads and drive with lots of anticipation keeping nice safe distance.

If however you wish to pursue the fitting of belts there are a couple of archive threads on the BBS just search using "seat belts" and there is the link on the IMGYTR too.

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/imgytr/seatbelts.shtml

Good luck with thatever you decide.

Richard
Richard Knight

Thank you for your reply and help.
V Rich

Hi look at post 698

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768/page-47

there you can see the plate at the b column
you can t see anything if you hav not fit the belts, if you want to you can it in some minutes at this point
on the ground i have made a special metal construction what is not weld to the chassis.
i can take it away also

why seat belts
i drive the car slowly and carefully
never made an accident until today
when i hit something with 30 km it is different as 100 km with a modern car
with the belts i would not hit the windscreen in the front and my teeth will not be destroid.
i can make some pictures from the parts on the ground

if you make a restauration from your car you should see my blog with more than 1000 pictures
FT Franz

Hi Franz.
Thank you for your post. I will use the data on my seat belt fitting.

Regards
Vaughan Rich
V Rich

Franz.
Do you have photo of the mounting point and plate you made for the bottom fixing.

Regards
Vaughan
V Rich

i will post some pictures later
sent me a mail than it is much easyer
;-)
FT Franz

Hi Franz.

Please send photos of lower seat belt fixing.
My email is. rich3nz@btinternet.com.

Regards Vaughan
Ps. We are on vacation until Saturday but I can recieve emails.
V Rich

Richard

It is worth giving Quickfit Seat Belt Service technical dept a ring. Nothing to do with a similar sounding national tyre and exhaust chain, but really helpful and experienced in making their own belts in house and fitting kits for old cars and will do installation too. See: https://www.quickfitsbs.com/classic_cars_seatbelts.php

They made me some excellent three point static belts (‘period style static lap and diagonals’) for my MkII Austin Healey Sprite which has an unusual two bolt rear mounting for the upper point which they could supply the correct component as part of the belt. They also do lap belts and inertia reels.

They have experience of fitting belts into old cars that never had them as standard including working out how to insert/create suitable mounting points.

Thanks
Mike
M Wood

Hi.Mike.
Thank you for the link .
Regards Vaughan
V Rich

This thread was discussed between 11/07/2021 and 17/07/2021

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