Fitting Anchor Points for Child Restraint in 2008 Defender

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Originally Posted by alan48

Hi,
I went through this recently re two pumas and was disgusted at the prices for relatively little work--in the end had my local RMS approved engineer in Sth Windsor do one in each car at $450 each as I only wanted one/car--others insisted they must do three--why? Most of that cost was for the certificate anyway.

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We had one fitted then had another kid so got the other two fitted.. Allows us to move the kids around as required for packing in adults [emoji4]

I had fridge tie down points fitted to my drawers from Off Road Systems and I just use one of them for the child seat. I figured if it is rated to hold a fridge it should be able to hold a much lighter baby and seat.

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I did the same as Disco Mick. Also my youngest is now in a booster and all the tie down is doing is securing the seat from flying around (and it is using the proper seat belt to secure the child).

I have a third row of seats and I have also previously secured the tie down and harness to the mount of that. I figured it must be more than engineered enough or it wouldn't have been approved for use!

I will say though that LR could have fitted the anchors to the back of the seats. It is amazing how many people I meet that use their Defenders as family wagons. They could even have added it as an extra and I would have happily paid through the nose for it.

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Originally Posted by EastFreo

I did the same as Disco Mick. Also my youngest is now in a booster and all the tie down is doing is securing the seat from flying around (and it is using the proper seat belt to secure the child).

I have a third row of seats and I have also previously secured the tie down and harness to the mount of that. I figured it must be more than engineered enough or it wouldn't have been approved for use!

I will say though that LR could have fitted the anchors to the back of the seats. It is amazing how many people I meet that use their Defenders as family wagons. They could even have added it as an extra and I would have happily paid through the nose for it.

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They don't because of some loophole around the legal definition of a utility vehicle.. (what I was told by someone at jlr)

So I fitted my own child anchor points and removed the cumbersome CRAB. Left rear seat was really painful to do. Loktite the nut to the big washer and drilled a hole through that and the back plate. Riveted just to hold in position. Then riveted all back in. Did have to cut a small amount of top bar on seat to fit.

Did same with right hand seat, but was able to hold the assembly with the rear window open and then screw the bolt in and all was good. As the anchor point purely holds the seat in position from movement when not being used, the seat belt still takes the load and restraint in an accident. So I have no issues with this and prefer to the ones that are just tapped into the metal skin and foam back.

Now I have a CRAB for sale.

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