Seat adjustment

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 21:24

I've got an english moke with the metal seats, and im a six foot pluser, and have realised i cant drive the moke, my knees are above the steering wheel, and one legs out of the car, and the other permamnently flashing the heads lights!
So i was wondering how can you put the seat back, further than the BMC holes, i was thinking about a couple of box sections acting like kinda runners?
Also what seat belts fit an old moke? are they just standard mini ones, or will generic small car inertia belts fit?

Kindest Regards
Alastair

Post by **Doug G** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 20:20

The Club parts department does supply seatbelts for Mini Mokes.

I bought a set of four in green.

I recall that they were less expensive than else where - for me at least being based in the Caribbean

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 20:29

What kind were they??
lap belts or inertia type?

Post by **Nigel(no top)Sykes** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 20:37

Unless you've got a roll bar fitted you'll have to use lap belts. There's no top mounting for an inertia belt as standard

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 20:55

Hmm, the seat belts that were fitted to her, went over your shoulder and then went through a hoop like thing on teh back of the seat, and then continued to an attachment on the side of the box section either side of the car!

Post by **Doug G** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:12

liirge wrote:What kind were they??
lap belts or inertia type?

They were green and the inertia type.

My Mini Moke has a roll bar.

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liirge · Post by **liirge** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 17:10

Ahhh i see! im think im gonna have to make some ingenious invention!!

Post by **Nigel(no top)Sykes** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 19:48

I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side

Post by **Doug G** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 20:28

Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote:I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side

Strangely enough I seldom if ever exceed 30mph.
I tootle(?) along at about 20 -25mph.
That way I get to smell the roses.

WellI will once the clutch is repaired.

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 21:03

Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote:I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side

Yer thats very true!

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 21:03

Doug G wrote:
Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote:I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side
Strangely enough I seldom if ever exceed 30mph.
I tootle(?) along at about 20 -25mph.
That way I get to smell the roses.

WellI will once the clutch is repaired.

What about motorways?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 22:51

Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote:I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side

I'm always pretty cautious with seatbelts. I had a nasty experience in my previous Moke, where a stoned teenaged girl left me with nowhere to go and hit me head on. I had managed to slow down a fair bit, but she was still doing about 80kmh. My moke stopped almost dead and spun backwards off the road. Everything in the car went out through the windscreen, but fortunately I was wearing a dodgy lap/sash seatbelt fitted to the roll bar. The Moke was bent like a banana, shortened by more than a foot on the drivers side. I ended up with lots of deep cuts down my left arm and side, 11 months on crutches with a smashed femur, but cruicially, no head, spinal or facial injuries. All of which I could have expected with just a lap belt or no belt at all. My new moke has the same roll bar (fully crash tested you see) and the best seatbelts I could buy. I tend to get very nervous now when other cars cross onto my side of the road.

Tim

Post by **Nigel(no top)Sykes** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 20:08

I agree with you Tim, what I was trying to get across was that unless you have a roll bar fitted (though I thought you wern't allowed to call it that officially in Aus) the only option you have is lap belts, and they are pretty useless.

As for motorways, in Dougland there's not enough room to warrant getting anywhere quicker

liirge · Post by **liirge** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:29

Tim, that sounds like a terrible ordeal you had!
Yer, im not keen on Lap belts at all, im sure ill figure something out!

Cheers, kindest Regards

Post by **Doug G** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 20:02

liirge wrote:
Doug G wrote:
Nigel(no top)Sykes wrote:I always reckon that at more then 30mph seatbelts in a Moke are a bit pointless

Nothing like looking on the bright side
Strangely enough I seldom if ever exceed 30mph.
I tootle(?) along at about 20 -25mph.
That way I get to smell the roses.

WellI will once the clutch is repaired.
What about motorways?

Don't have them here.