2008 JDM Karakuri Seat install... w/ seat belt question.....Need picture of bare roof

S2kvee

Member
:
2008 mazda5 grand touring
My middle row center seat should be arriving sometime in this month or next from japan.. this is the karakuri middle row, center seat thats not available in the US.. anyways.. im thinking up ways bolt up a seat belt system so it would work safely... has anyone ever removed their headliner and have taken a picture of the underside bare roof... are there any factory mounting holes for a roof mounted seatbelt assembly... (JDM / EDM)...

i would prefer to set up a 3 point seatbelt system for the center seat.. but if its too difficult. i may just settle with a 2 point lap belt.
 
This is the picture from the Workshop Manual:
Second row center seat belt.JPG
I guess that there are mounting point in the car frame, but you need an additional frame to mount the seat belt retractor.
I have the European version with the center seat and there's quite a large bump in the left hand side ceiling that covers the seat belt retractor.
If your ceiling does not have such a bump, I guess you will have a hard time properly mounting a seat belt.

BTW: My car originally did not have the third row, but I installed one myself afterwards. All mounting points were there. Even the holes in the pillar that the seat belts go through were already there. (Only they had covers with no gap for the seat belt, so I had to replace the covers)
 
Great.. thank you.. I was hoping the mounts would be there.. now to source put the seatbelt assembly... perhaps I'll just cut the headliner and retrofit a universal seatbelt cover
 
Do you mind sharing how much it cost to get that seat (product and shipping)? And a link or description of how you got it? Thanks!!
 
I paid a total of $220 USD for it to be shipped.... My friend runs a import business so he has the connections... I found the seat from Yahoo Auctions for around $60-80 USD but domestic Japan shipping to my friends shipping container was about $100 usd.. after a service / wire fee.. total was $220. The seat did take close to 10 months to arrive, only because my friend was delaying his container multiple times to fill it up. I played the order thru my friend October 2016, got the notice this past weekend it had arrived, loaded off the container and into the shop. Picked it up yesterday and Installed it right away... I didnt take pictures of the install but its pretty self explanatory. I had the Grand Touring model so it was with leather, the JDM Seat was a 2011 model in Fabric with the headrest. The seat frame bolts up, i had to swap the seat bottom over as well as the seat back with the skin and foam. Leaving the seat back frame. The JDM and USDM seat back frame are slightly different, (JDM has reinforced splines for the center arm rest / center back portion), i had to make a slit on my USDM leather so the latch hook can slip through. Also had to cut part of the usdm foam to work around the latch hook.

Here are some pics
<a href="http://s105.photobucket.com/user/xlasianizelx/media/IMG_6010_zpskqmxj9mk.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m234/xlasianizelx/IMG_6010_zpskqmxj9mk.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_6010_zpskqmxj9mk.jpg"/></a>
<a href="http://s105.photobucket.com/user/xlasianizelx/media/IMG_6011_zpsad8oo6cp.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m234/xlasianizelx/IMG_6011_zpsad8oo6cp.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_6011_zpsad8oo6cp.jpg"/></a>
 
Those photobucket pics don't work... think you have to pay photobucket now. Can you re-upload with imgr or something?
 
Back