Someone on a thread earlier mentioned needing some sort of certification for their seat since they had the harness fed through purpose-made slots in it. Is it an SVA requirement to have certification for any seat you use or only if it has harness slots?

Hi Browser,

That was me

It was just that as the harness holes were higher up than the belt mounting points, then in a crash, there would be a downward force exerted by the belts on the seat.

The tester was not happy that the seats had no certification to show that they could take this load without breaking. This only became relevant as the seats effectively became part of the seatbelt systemdue to the positioning of the holes.

The get around for the test was to thread the belts around the sides of the seat rather than use the holes - problem solved



HTH

Mark