website said:To suit:
BMW: 3 Series (E36 & E46); 5 Series (E39)
BMW - Mini
Subaru: Impreza (WRX & STI)
Audi: A3; A4; S4, 80; 90; 100-; 200
VW: Golf Mk II; Mk III; Mk IV
Seat: Leon
Skoda: Fabia
What he said ^^^
The seat backs on standard seats are not strong enough to take the compresive force that will be pushing down on your seat in the event of an accident! They will just buckle and probably buckle you too
been involved in a slightly severe accident very recently, harness's were in use, no damage to the seat nor to me, i managed to walk out of it with out even a bruise.
im sure cobra daytona seats are FIA approved and they recline thats why i got them. Means i can use harnesses and tilt the seat forward if i take the harneses out.
no damage to the seat
Honestly - have you taken a crashed seat and done a finite element analysis on it compared to a brand new one?
Even with no harness a 'crashed' seat would be damaged, but a normal road seat is not able to stand the vertical load
I've seen a collapsed seat because a harness was used, the occupants were very lucky not to have been badly injured.
so you didn't have a 'hard' stop then?
hit something head on rather than humping armco and you'll see what I mean
E-mail sent to cobra. funny how i cant find anything on there web site yet all daytonas on E-bay say they are FIA aproved hum does make you wonder.
Doh ! why bother with the harness slots if they arnt strong enough to use them
well i may have to go and get me some carbon fiber backed full on buckets