Thread: 92 Rangie - where do I attatch the baby car seat anchor bolt thing to ? help please

Does your Range Rover have 3 plugs along the back edge of the roof lining?
Hopefully it does as these are the restraint points.

I use an adjustable joining strap in my RR but the 600mm one will be too long. The 300mm strap will be fine.

My RR did not have any in the roof as in 1987 RR was brought in as a commercial vehicle. If yours are not behind the roof lining near the speakers you can do what I did and install a plate. I did it myself in a few hrs, cost $30. Put a sandwich of 2x steel bars under and over the rear floor, put 3x holes and weld some nuts under the floor or just drill a hole and put loose nuts with split washers under. This system is as strong as any system engineers put in. In fact after a certified engineer told me what he was going to do I am convinced my system is stronger.

Originally Posted by F4Phantom

My RR did not have any in the roof as in 1987 RR was brought in as a commercial vehicle. If yours are not behind the roof lining near the speakers you can do what I did and install a plate. I did it myself in a few hrs, cost $30. Put a sandwich of 2x steel bars under and over the rear floor, put 3x holes and weld some nuts under the floor or just drill a hole and put loose nuts with split washers under. This system is as strong as any system engineers put in. In fact after a certified engineer told me what he was going to do I am convinced my system is stronger.

Hi,

I need to do this in my '84 rangie. Any chance of seeing a diagram or some photos to get a clearer picture of what you did in yours?

Cheers, Josh

Originally Posted by geek2live

Hi,

I need to do this in my '84 rangie. Any chance of seeing a diagram or some photos to get a clearer picture of what you did in yours?

Cheers, Josh

Here is two panels, the bottom panel is thick and the top is not really needed but I like to oversize points like these so I put a thin top in. A total of 4 bolts sandwich them together. Then some high tensile bolts hold in the car seat attachments.

You will also see a photo of a strap on the back of the seat. I am doing this because it was mentioned by I think loanrangie that some kids were once killed when the RR seats collapsed, not hard to imagine as the latches are useless. Now I am attaching the top of the seats (both parts) via a seat belt strap to the car seat bolts to stop this problem.

Hi, I found this thread, and I hope someone can help me out.

I am about to take proud delivery of a Range Rover Sport, I would like to know where the baby seat anchor points are for this? so when I do the car switch (trade in) I am prepared with the correct length straps. etc...

any help would be greatly appreciated.....

Originally Posted by F4Phantom

My RR did not have any in the roof as in 1987 RR was brought in as a commercial vehicle. If yours are not behind the roof lining near the speakers you can do what I did and install a plate. I did it myself in a few hrs, cost $30. Put a sandwich of 2x steel bars under and over the rear floor, put 3x holes and weld some nuts under the floor or just drill a hole and put loose nuts with split washers under. This system is as strong as any system engineers put in. In fact after a certified engineer told me what he was going to do I am convinced my system is stronger.

Just be a little careful with any of these modified designs.

Firstly a member of the RR Club of NSW had 2 children die when restrained in an after market adaption to their 1987 RRc (when they were new). The restraints were affixed to the floor in the rear cargo area and during a crash and roll over event the catches for the seats failed and the children became un-restrained causing fatal injuries. The seat catches are not designed to hold the weight of even a small child's body.

Secondly, if you look under the car at the rear floor in most RRC's you will see that the floor is aluminium and only pop riveted in place, the original rear seat belt anchorages actually have an additional tie under the floor down to the chassis.

The preferable method of anchorage is to fit one of the anchorage bars that are designed to tie between the "C" pillars on both sides of the vehicle. You get them from authorised seat belt fitting stations.

Diana

I've got one which bolts to the inner rear wheel arches, not fitted to my car as I currently have draws and don't have kids. Hopefully the attached pics work - this was fitted by an authorised seat mob to the car in question.

The supplier is: Littles Child Restraints 02 9831 7110

For the bloke in the new RR sport you lucky bugger! The attachments are in the seat back like the D3, I think, just ring your dealer and double check.

I had an old 81 2 door rr which i retro fitted a bolt ( not strictly legal but a lot cheaper than custom design) to the floor for the middle seat to take a baby seat/ capsule, and I used the main anchor bolt and a 10cm square off 8mm plate underneath the car with 2 further bolts to secure it in place ( 3 carefully measured and placed drill holes and a lot off selastic to stop/ reduce the electrolisis/rust/ water entry) the plate will spread the load that is placed on the bolt in a sudden impact and stop the blot from ripping through the floor.
But make sure you use some locktite on the nuts under the car as the vibration from the 3.5 seems to be in harmony with slowly unscrewing nuts from bolts