Horsebox seatbelts retrofit, WWYD?

[smanf]

So chuffed having just bought from a friend a 7.5t Leyland Roadrunner, even considering renting my flat out and moving into it ! Anyway, it is a 1988 and so doesn't have any seatbelts. Of course Mum is now eating her heart out at the thought of us going head first through the windscreen. I just spoke my mechanic friend about having seatbelts retro-fitted, but he said that doing so could open a whole can of worms with regards to MOTs, certification etc. and that it might be better to let sleeping dogs lie with the truck being legal as it is. I just got a quote from a seatbelt company of £150 per belt Would you leave it be on the premise that aside from being a slow vehicle anyway, there is not an awful lot that is likely to stop 7.5t dead in its tracks? Or would you continue down the route of getting them fitted?

 

[zaminda]

Ours doesn't have any, and we have had it several years and not bothered!! I would leave it be.

 

[humblepie]

Our lorry only had a seat belt in the middle seat and I got seat belts installed as I feel you are very close to a lorry windscreen. Am fortunate that OH is mechanic so fitted them himself. They were quite expensive to buy even at the rate he could get them at. Not aware of any problem re certification or similar but yes if they are fitted they become part of the annual inspection.