seat belts on a yank tank

Original Design Feature? Only Exemption I can foresee

The only "out" I can see is if it's ULW is over 2540kg and it was first used before 1st October 1988 and it's a 3 seater bench seat in the rear. If not all of these it needs at least a diagonal.

Unless the unladen weight is stamped on it can't see one of those weighing more then 2540 kg
In that case it don't need any rear seat belts

I referenced the rear seats as they're part of the flow chart questions on page 4 of the seat belt flow charts. I initially wondered what it had to do with front belts but then I remembered who wrote the manual...

It needs 2-2 point belts that retrains the upper part of the body,one each for driver and passenger.that's all
Lap belts don't restrain the upper body so they are incorrect and rightly failed

The fact its passed previous tests with lap belts is irrelevant

Like lights having to conform to uk regulations then the belts have to also.don't take much to put correct belts in it mounting points are proberly there anyway.

problem is its a softop,no upper mount points.my suggestion was to try fitting some sorta shoulder harness to the seat mounts,childseat straps wud do,no requirement for me to test if they are actually up to the job after all,just has to be summat there is all im interested in.

as is probably the case in most areas most of the local monstrosities are owned/run by folks that tend to know each other and tend to take em to the same guy for tests,our local suspect an old boy(so I hear on the grapevine)was invited to strongly consider retirement by dvsa about 6yrs back due to his propensity for passing anything with a yank badge,headlights+indicators flashing together/large quantities of harry miller holding everything together/any colour/combination of lights/lhd beam patterns/straight thru exhausts on big block chevys-you get the idea,as a result a lot of his long term crap has been feeding into the local system and as prior mentioned a lotta guys aint up on sh1te like this.