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Seatbelts with Miata MX5 seats

Bill Tippy

Bill Tippy

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I purchased a nice pair of 1999 Miata MX5 seats and will be installing them soon.
These seats have the integrated seat belt receiver.
What have others done for seat belts with these seats?
 

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Barry

Barry

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What kind of seat belt setup do you have in mind? The "integrated seat belt receiver" in the Miata seats is intended to accept the "tongue latch" in a retractable three-point seat belt setup. Three-point seat belts are vastly more effective than a two-point lap belt, but unless you have a roll bar (and maybe not then), there is no suitable place in a Series Alpine to put the top mount of a a three-point seat belt setup.

You can probably cobble up a two-point lap belt that can use the integrated seat belt receiver, but the Mazda receiver may only work with the matching Mazda tongue latch.

https://forum.sunbeamalpine.org/index.php?search/25234/&q=seat+belt&o=date
 
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Bill Blue

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Another potential problem - some integrated systems do not provide for a chassis mounted belt receiver and the Alpine 1/4" seat mounting bolts are inadequate for the task of restraining you. I gave up and installed the next gen Miata seats which incorporate seat belt supports in the seat back. They work just fine, but are a headache to install.
Bill
 
Bill Tippy

Bill Tippy

Platinum Level Sponsor
Barry said:
What kind of seat belt setup do you have in mind? The "integrated seat belt receiver" in the Miata seats is intended to accept the "tongue latch" in a retractable three-point seat belt setup. Three-point seat belts are vastly more effective than a two-point lap belt, but unless you have a roll bar (and maybe not then), there is no suitable place in a Series Alpine to put the top mount of a a three-point seat belt setup.

You can probably cobble up a two-point lap belt that can use the integrated seat belt receiver, but the Mazda receiver may only work with the matching Mazda tongue latch.

https://forum.sunbeamalpine.org/index.php?search/25234/&q=seat+belt&o=date
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I'm open to ideas. Currently I have the lap belts and if need be I'd be ok keeping them.
As Bill Blue mentioned, the next gen of Miata seats have the three point integrated, which I didn't know. But I picked the gen 1 seats because, from reading posts, they are easier to install.
I have some basic power tools, but no welders, a bending brake, or other tools like that.
 
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