Modifying a seat bracket that is all one welded piece for structural safety purposes is more than “some”. Plus, with piecing the seat together to get it to fit, you’re trading one decreased piece of safety for another. You’re going from no shoulder belt to a seat that’s been put together like legos in the hopes that it holds its structural integrity in a collision.
Good point, and sometimes it makes me wonder after reading all this that since it doesn’t sound like it’s a requirement to have a shoulder belt on the center front seat of anything that that means that there probably is no regulation on how strong they have to build that so I just wonder how strong the seat back is and how big of a person can sit there that in the event of a collision, is that seat back gonna be able to hold it self in that spot so that if you do run into something, the weight of that person’s body isn’t gonna overcome whatever it is that holds that seat back in it’s locked position.
At least in the backseat, the shoulder belt is anchored to the back of the cab. But since this design is kind of a carryover from like the old 98 ram I had where the driver and front passenger seat back is where the shoulder belt came out of, sometimes I wonder of how strong those setbacks were to not come forward with you if you got into a bad enough front collision accident. I guess it’s a good thing I never had a crash but m that truck because I would not wanna have to find out.
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