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Greetings all. I would like to ask 2 questions on my first post.

Cargo barriers to prevent stuff from the back of the wagon flying into the passenger area seem to start around $300 to $400 new and I haven't found one second hand.
Any advice or cheaper options?

and

The rear middle seatbelt is just a lap which is not really safe for the kids. Is it possible to install something for the middle rear that goes at least over a shoulder or shoulders?
I was thinking about a racing harness but saw the earlier post giving it the thumbs down.


Thanks.

welcome to the club. gotta love the TP wagons.

i can't see y u can't put a lap-sash belt in the middle, attach it to the floor in the back and use the same mount as the lap belt for the other end. u'd have to get it enginneered but i dont think i'd be 2 hard.

as for the cargo barrier, i have my new sub box :D . and if i did want something i would have dad make it, i'd attach it myself and then i'd make a fake tag saying it was adr approved. but thats just a broke, dodgy teenager with a sheet metal worker dad talking.

So anyway... where bouts u from? i hope ur planning on going on some cruises, cuz there aint enough representation by us gen 1 magnas.


Later

Tim

Thanks for the welcome and the advice.

I'm from outer South East Melbourne between Frankston, Dandenong and Cranbourne full of poor family people and there are stacks of this first shape Magna wagon around.
Although they are all pretty standard, as is mine.
Once you are attached with a few snivelling kids there just doesn't seem to be the spare cash for some of the luxuries I have read on many of the other posts.
Although I think I can still remember what it was like?
While I won't be trying to make mine look pretty I do want to make it perfectly maintained and just right in all the things I do need. Like seat belts and cargo safety.
And I love the 5 speed manual which has so much more get up an go than the auto's I used to have many years ago.

My TP wagon is intended as my last car so I have to make it last for the next 40 years or so.
Having so many around for cheap spares was important in the decision to go with a TP.
Also the wagon was necessary so I have some where to sleep/live if we go through the seemingly inevitable breakup.
I was also surprised to find in my research how much more reliable and better equiped the Magnas were compared to Fords and Holdens.
I had an Ford XF wagon before this and what a sh#t box in comparison, especially when you're 4th door handle broke and you had to get in through the tailgate.

Later

Steve