Harnesses and WOF??

[HachirokuGTV]

Whats the deal with using harness type seat belts and getting WOF'S??

[AE82 FXGT]

I think you need a regular seatbelt for a WOF, but I think they'll accept a harness if you have a motorsport licence, not 100% on that though

[Truenotch]

If you have a MSNZ licence then you can get and authority card, provided you do 2 or more events a year in that car.

What type of harness do you have, how is it mounted, is it legal for motorsport?

[Grrrrrrr!]

Short answer: Motorsport authority card required.


Longer Answer form http://www.lvvta.org.nz/newindex6.html:
Dear Certed,

I have a Racepro bucket seat in my VR-4, but I'm wanting to fit a Sabelt harness seat belt as well. Is that legal or not? One mate told me it's sweet if you have the factory seat belts still installed, and another mate told me you can't have them unless you use the car for racing. I use the car at the Night Drags, but I'm not sure if that counts?

Please help, Thanks, Anton.

Hi Anton,

The simple answer is no, you can't have a full-harness belt in a road-going vehicle (yeah, yeah, I know it seems crazy too, but there are reasons why LTSA won't allow it, which I won't get into here).

There's only two ways you can have a full-harness seatbelt:

1. The Low Volume Standards allow for full-harness belts, but only in single-row seat scratch-built cars like custom-built sports cars, kit cars, and hot rods.

2. The only way to have a full-harness belt in a production road car is with a Motorsport NZ Authority Card. This doesn't provide for import drag cars though.

However, there is an alternative Authority Card system being developed for vehicles that compete in drag racing competition classes. It will solve the problem for many - it's just taking a while to get it to the top of the to-do pile. We'll give you that info when it's in place.

All the best, Old Hoon.

[TWSTD]

If you retain the factory belts then you should be fine without need to auth card. You can even unclip your 4/5/6 point harness when it comes time for WOF. So long as you dont remove the factory belt you will be fine.

[neo]

and out of left field .. if you have a full cage, you must use harnesses, and you must have an authority card

[Leon]

Thus every monkey with a bolt in nasty Jappa cage needs to

1) remove it to be road legal
and
2) be shot, just on general principles.