Thread: defender baby restraint info- need feedback!

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

As I've said before Streetwise does them in Brisbane. They are a bit better built than that too.

I tried to ring Streetwise. The phone goes through to another company, who reckon that Streetwise went out of business back in approx 2005. I'm going to try Vanquip next.

Have seen this post late, but also went through similar dramas a few months ago, I bought a defender anchor bar from
Auto Seat Conversions Pty ltd
246 Manns Rd
West Gosford
2250
NSW
All up delivered it cost me $236.50, from memory i think the boss is called Colin. I then took it to an approved fitter to be fitted!
If you would like some photos of it fitted PM me your email and i will happily send some, the only difference between mine and the one in Bushies Photo is that mine was supplied with bolts instead of using the existing fittings.
hope this helps
decibelcore

Originally Posted by White Cedar

I tried to ring Streetwise. The phone goes through to another company, who reckon that Streetwise went out of business back in approx 2005. I'm going to try Vanquip next.

Oh. Thats a shame.

i had one fitted by southside when i brought my110 in 06 it is the same as the one in bushies photo. try calling southside sales yard they should be able to help, but i will check the blue plate in the morning for the mob that certified mine.

kEV

Originally Posted by decibelcore

Have seen this post late, but also went through similar dramas a few months ago, I bought a defender anchor bar from
Auto Seat Conversions Pty ltd
246 Manns Rd
West Gosford
2250
NSW
All up delivered it cost me $236.50, from memory i think the boss is called Colin. I then took it to an approved fitter to be fitted!
If you would like some photos of it fitted PM me your email and i will happily send some, the only difference between mine and the one in Bushies Photo is that mine was supplied with bolts instead of using the existing fittings.
hope this helps
decibelcore

If you could send me a few pics that would be sweet.
There is probably a good and obvious reason for this but why cant the seat belt mounting points on the floor of the 110 (94) be used.

My Volkswagen golf Hatch had mounting points on the floor factory of course so is it just hatches that allow this? There is some confusing and average ledgeslation out there. All I want to do is put the kids in the car and make them safe and not even gov departments can give straight answers.

Originally Posted by naradataranto

If you could send me a few pics that would be sweet.
There is probably a good and obvious reason for this but why cant the seat belt mounting points on the floor of the 110 (94) be used.

My Volkswagen golf Hatch had mounting points on the floor factory of course so is it just hatches that allow this? There is some confusing and average ledgeslation out there. All I want to do is put the kids in the car and make them safe and not even gov departments can give straight answers.

Have a look here
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/good-oil/5...die-seats.html

The basic reason, as I understand several years after going through the whole process, is that a non-standard child restraint anchor point has fulfill one of two requirements. They either have to be so over-engineered that they will basically survive the complete destruction of the car, or they have to be stress tested.

If you put the anchor point more than 10cm from top of seat - the official number is something like that - the seat becomes part of the anchor point and who knows what it's made of; so you need to stress test.

So, the floor mount anchor points have already been tested or the manufacturer says they have, I dunno which.

Go the crab bar, at the end of the day all you want is to put your kids in the back and know that they're safe.

Cheers
Simon

Morning

Checked mod plate this morning and my restraint bar was fitted bt Auto Extras and their certify number is (2044). As i said in the last post southside should have the contact detials they should be able to get that bit right maybe

Kev

Hi,

I had VanQuip (Dividend St, Mansfield QLD 4122) fit a CRAB (child restraint access bar) today and it all looks very good. They sourced the item from Automotive Restraint Fitters Australia (NSW phone 02 9603 3902) and apparently it is the second last of new stock that they had. The distributor is not aware of anyone manufacturing the item any more in Australia. The item is very strongly engineered and welded - cost me a small fortune to have freighted to BNE.

I also had a good chat with Warren Tyson (workshop manager at VanQuip), who seems expertly knowledgable about restraints in all vehicles. I asked why no one was stepping in to maintain a product. He said that it cost just under $3000 to do the testing the last time that VanQuip certified a new design themselves (in QLD), implication being that there is not enough sales to warrant the setup costs. I also asked about the whole debacle about all the states being different compliance regimes. He said that this would all be changing next year, the impression I got was that there would be uniform rules coming, but he did not elaborate. He also confirmed the discussion about defender being a commercial vehicle and thus escaping the need for manufacturer preinstallled anchor points. He said that many similar multi-use 4WD, vans, utes were in the same boat.

All up the CRAB cost me $780 including freight, fitting, and modification compliance plate. Expensive, but I'm happy to get it done quickly and with the compliance cert.

Regards,