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"Schroth Quickfit removable 4-point harness" By Tony Danza
tony_danza:
I'll do some photos ASAP and a step by step fitting guide.
They're seemingly very hard to lay your mitts on at the moment.
I found a set at by chance as whilst searching and noticed someone had done a group buy on them a while back for the TTclub. Phoned and they had a set left over, so I snagged them.
Rallynuts never got back to my emails & don't pick up their phone seemingly to tell me if they had them in stock or they were an 'order only' item.
TTS don't list them on their website for some reason - call them.
Demon Tweeks are a Schroth agent, but don't list the Quickfit, again try calling
I think you're either going to have to order them direct from Germany, find someone prepared to order a load in, or just accept what you can find here in the UK, meaning you may not get the colour you want.
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: tony_danza on July 22, 2009, 07:05:01 pm ---
RR - yes, you'll need to undo the shoulder straps to feed them through though.
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....I hate to tell you guys this but those like TC and myself will be better off with our Recaros with the belts slotting through. Forces on the easily removable headrest won't be quite as safe in some collision circumstances. However, by sliding the joint closer to the rear of the stock headrest, that factor should improve.
On the other hand, our Recaros don't have such effective 'headrests' and we don't have seat airbags.
wigit:
friends of mine have used these for ages, will be curious to see how these work out given the GTI head rests have the lip down on the front which goes over the seat back and go over the shoulder, that said we have our cranked up a fair bit
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: wigit on July 23, 2009, 01:01:28 pm ---
friends of mine have used these for ages, will be curious to see how these work out given the GTI head rests have the lip down on the front which goes over the seat back and go over the shoulder, that said we have our cranked up a fair bit
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....Unless you choose to crank up your GTI headrests yourself, I wouldn't be surprised if the Schroth belts will crank them up for you! They would surely 'crank' upwards as the belt is subjected to forces while driving - and then the belt straps would then become looser?
I'm just playing Devil's Advocate on this subject and am exploring what limitations these otherwise excellent Schroth belts may have.
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tony_danza:
Yep, you're absolutely right, Robin. Yours have the guide holes for a very good reason, to keep the straps on your shoulders.
I would only use these on the track no matter what seat I had, mainly for the reason on certain types of junction you have to lean forward to see. This would mean loosening the belts to enable you to move and if you were to be shunted, you wouldn't be safe.
In terms of track use:
They're still better than a 3 point seatbelt.
You MUST have them tight
You MUST guide them through the headrest poles to ensure they don't/can't slip over the shoulders of the seat. Doing this makes them no different to the style of seat below, and to be fair the headrest should be raised for most people anyway to work properly.
If it all were to go wrong though, I think a bit of belt marking on the neck would pale into insignificance compared to everything else.
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