Hey, guys.
Today we're gonna be taking a look at and installing the Schroth QuickFit harnesses
in black for 2005 to 2017 Mustangs.
These are a four-point harness and they utilize the factory seat belt buckles.
They're gonna be perfect for someone who wants a harness for track time, but someone that
wants something that's not complicated to install and that's very easy to uninstall
so you can utilize your backseat still.
They cost about $270 and I'll call the install a one out of three wrenches in the difficulty
meter.
We'll go ahead now and show you how we got these in the car.
All right, guys, so we're gonna start the install by getting our passenger side harness
in first and these are side-specific so just make sure you have the correct side.
So we're gonna go ahead, get this laid out in the seat.
This portion of it is gonna wrap around the headrest, so we'll lay these here for now.
The easiest thing that we can do is we're gonna take this buckle right here and plug
it right into where our seat belt would go.
This is why these are side-specific.
You need this on the left side for the passenger side and you need it on the right for the
driver's side.
This right here is actually gonna bolt down to the car using the factory bolt.
So we're gonna go ahead, move our seat all the way forward so we can access our factory
bolt back here.
So we'll tilt the seat forward as well.
Okay, so at this point, we're going to unbuckle the harness from here because we obviously
can't reach...
We're going to be going right here with this part of the harness so we can unbuckle and
separate that.
Then this is a T50 Torx bit that's holding this bolt in right here.
I'm gonna remove this bolt, we'll put our harness on the other side, and then bolt it
back down.
All right, so this part of the harness is gonna go right up against the body of the
car.
We did have a spacer that fell out.
We're going to then reinstall our spacer with our bolt.
And we're just gonna line those up right here.
Then we're gonna line up through the harness and back into the car and bolt this back down.
I'm starting this bolt by hand because I definitely don't wanna cross-thread this.
You wanna make sure this still pivots at the end of the day, so our harness needs to be
sitting right here.
We're gonna go ahead and tighten this now.
From here, we're gonna go ahead and remove the rear seat.
Now, there are two latches in the middle of the rear seat cushions.
We're just gonna push those latches back towards the rear of the car and lift out the bottom
of the seat.
So, one of the latches is right here, I'll push that forward.
There's another latch right here, we'll push that forward and then this whole seat bottom
will remove.
So, with the rear seat removed, we can see where we're gonna be bolting to next.
We're going to use this factory seat belt mounting location.
This is also a T50 Torx bit, so we're gonna go ahead and remove that now.
So, we're gonna be installing this tail section of the harness into that factory location.
To get this removed, we're simply gonna push up on this piece here and it'll unbuckle for
us.
Make sure your seat belt's not twisted when you go to reinstall this.
And you're gonna have to make sure you get the hook in the correct location.
We're gonna go ahead and tighten this bolt.
All right, guys, so one thing you do wanna make sure of after you bolt this down is that
you have this tailpiece of the harness in the correct orientation and that may require
bending the bracket slightly.
So, you guys can see, when we reinstall the seat, we want this to be sitting flush up
against the side of the car here so we can buckle right in.
We don't want this pointed any other direction because it's gonna put stress on the rear
seat.
So, ours is sitting really nicely here, flush up against the side of the car.
When we reinstall the rear seat, we won't have any issue with this here.
Okay, so we're going to now install the driver's side harness and it's gonna go in the exact
same way.
So we'll put this portion of the harness over our headrest.
You do wanna make sure that the harness is laying completely flat at all times, and that's
one nice thing about this harness and the material that it's made out of.
It does naturally wanna lay flat.
So we're gonna go ahead and buckle this into our seat belt right here.
So we're gonna do the same thing with this side here.
This is gonna go up against the body of the car with our stock seat belt bracket.
All right, so we're gonna move our seat all the way forward so we can get to our bolt
back here.
We'll tilt it forward too just to give us a little more room.
We'll unbuckle this section of the harness so we can bolt it down to the body.
So we're gonna lift up on the tab right here and pull the plastic cover off.
Once again, we have a T50 Torx.
We're just gonna go ahead and remove that bolt.
All right, our bracket is gonna go underneath, so we'll put it through the bolt.
It's gonna go up against the body.
Once again, make sure your seat belt stayed straight in this process.
I'll just start this by hand for a couple threads just to make sure it's not cross-threaded
and then we'll go ahead and tighten this down.
All right, so now we're going to bolt in this tail section of the harness.
Once again, to remove this, you'll push up and it'll release.
All right, so once again, our tail section is gonna bolt to our factory seat belt location
right here.
So we'll go ahead and pull this bolt out.
All right so same thing here, our tail section is gonna go up against the car underneath.
Once again, you guys can see how straight this bracket is.
The bracket will bend slightly when I go ahead and bolt this down.
We wanna make sure that the harness ends up sitting like this.
So I'm gonna go ahead, once again, get this started by hand, make sure the clip on our
bracket goes into the hole that it's supposed to go to.
I'm gonna move this line out of the way because I don't wanna pinch that underneath my harness.
And I'm going to position the tailpiece with the harness so it's pointed in the correct
direction.
Get my bracket in the location and tighten down.
Okay, now we can get our rear seat cushion back into place.
You wanna make sure that you get these plastic tabs up underneath the seat backs.
You also wanna make sure you pull through your seat belts or at least get them lined
up.
You wanna make sure you pull your harness out so that you can buckle it in when you
need to.
All right, guys, so at this point, we're ready to make the connections in our rear seat.
So we're gonna go ahead and move our seat back to our sitting location.
Just keep in mind that once we get the seat back in their sitting location, we may just
have to adjust the harness so it can reach our buckles.
So, we're gonna move our seat back.
We'll also tilt the seat back.
And we have the harnesses sitting like this for now, but do keep in mind that this part
of the harness will need to go behind the headrest, so we're gonna go ahead and move
it back now.
So the harness needs to go over the rear of the seat like this.
So the female side of the harness will plug in over here.
All right, so then the male end of the hardest will plug into our factory seat belt buckle
right here.
And we are just gonna leave things loose for now until we get this completely buckled in.
All right, the last thing we have to buckle in is this right here.
Once again, we'll just take our harness.
Okay, guys with our driver's side harness completely installed, I'll show you how to
get in this.
You're actually gonna hit this buckle right here, the harness will open up for you.
Go ahead, sit in the seat.
This part here is gonna go over your shoulder.
Then you're gonna buckle yourself in.
Obviously, from here, you guys are gonna have to adjust your harness.
You have a couple of different adjustment points.
So obviously, you have your over-the-shoulder adjustment on both sides.
You also have your lap adjustment.
We actually wanna tighten down our lap before we get our shoulders too tight because we
wanna make sure that this is sitting nice and low across our pelvis.
That's actually one of the positives of this harness, is that it does sit low in your pelvis,
number one, for safety reasons, and number two, because it really holds you in your seat
and you won't slide around at all.
So, we'll go ahead.
We have two adjustment points on the pelvis down here.
We'll get those tight and then we'll get the adjustment over our shoulders tight as well.
One thing that's really nice about this harness is that it does reuse those factory seat belt
buckles.
That's great for two reasons, one, because it makes it very easy to install and two,
because you won't have your seat belt chime going on.
You guys get to maintain your factory seat belts, so anytime you need extra storage space
or you wanna have passengers in the rear of your car, it's very easy to uninstall these
and just go back to using your factory seat belts.
The straps here are really nice.
They're about two inches wide and they do have almost a memory film on the inside and
that's great because once you get them conformed to your body, they're very comfortable.
They also wanna sit very flat and that's great for safety reasons.
Now that we've gone over a couple of the features, let's go ahead and finish up our passenger
side.
All right, moving onto the passenger side, we're going to move our seat back and recline
it back as well, and then we'll get our harness in the correct position so we can buckle in
the back here.
Okay.
Once again, we need to make sure our harness is sitting correctly on the seat, so we're
going to move this portion of it behind the headrest so it sits like that.
All right, so just like on the driver's side, we're gonna go ahead and plug in our female
connection, that's gonna go towards the outside of the car.
Our male connection's gonna go in our factory seat belt buckle.
We'll go ahead and just plug this in.
All right, now we'll plug this side into our factory seat belt.
All right.
The last thing we have to do is plug this portion of our harness in, so we'll go ahead
and plug it in.
All right, guys, that's gonna wrap up this review and install.
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