Third Row Seat Installed

[AlgUSF]

I love that the whole forum needs government approval to sit in a fucking seat. God forbid anyone ever ride around in the bed of a pickup.

I miss the days of being a young adult and riding around in the bed of a pickup truck in St. Petersburg, FL. I had a 1995 S-10 Single cab and had friends riding around back. I actually caught my friend and his girlfriend having a romantic "experience" in the back once.

I figure that as adults we should be able to decide for ourselves the risks that we're willing to take and have our children take. Folks ride motorcycles at 100+ mph and no helmet, seems much more dangerous than a roll cage seat belted in the back of an enclosed Wrangler, or the bed of a pickup.

EDIT: Best of luck to the OP's friend. The fabrication looks amazing and if I had another kid I'd be interested in it for "off-road use".

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[Scott.B]

I am not a lawyer I just play one on JL Wrangler Forums!

Guy did great work getting that installed. Is that not about the same place a 2 door puts the seat?

 

[Scott.B]

I love that the whole forum needs government approval to sit in a fucking seat. God forbid anyone ever ride around in the bed of a pickup.

Or a motorcycle!

 

[dragoneggs]

I am not a lawyer I just play one on JL Wrangler Forums!

Guy did great work getting that installed. Is that not about the same place a 2 door puts the seat?

Yeah apparently 2dr’s have a smaller crumple zone.

 

[Kyanche]

Or they don't remember back in the day when a family would cram 3 people up front on the bench, 3 in the rear and 2 kids stuffed in the back of a station wagon. Probably wasn't the safest thing, but it really wasn't uncommon to see back in the days before airbags, anti-lock brakes and crumple zones.

Almost everyone I know from those days has a story about a relative or a friend that died in a crash of one of those kinda vehicles.

Flip side to this: While the cars today are far, far, far safer if driven correctly and with care, I think the drivers have become a lot more dangerous.

The times I've seen the subject of smart phone mounts come up, the threads were super popular and had dozens of pages of people talking about attaching their phone to their dashboard. Gotta make sure you can watch youtube while driving, or see the latest tweets, or write something to your friends on facebook! So many videos of people talking and gossiping while driving. I even know of a priest that drives around holding a rosary while video taping himself while driving!

IDK what to say or think about it. I just try to minimize my own risks.

Luckily, I don't have a big family or that many friends, so I don't have to worry about adding a third row to my jeep lmao.

For the most part, carrying that many people in a car is a bad idea. Too much weight, too many potential distractions.

 

[misanthrope]

It's a bit nostalgic to say "Back in my time..." and "I miss the good old days", and a bit myopic to complain about government oversight when, in my life alone, road deaths have dropped 80% per 100 million miles driven, and 75% per 100k in population. Even as the number of miles Americans have driven has tripled to over 3 trillion miles, traffic fatalities have consistently fallen.

And, yes, I am all for personal autonomy and autonomy over one's children, but lawsuits and injuries cost everyone money. Insurance companies recoup losses from every policy holder, so when negligence is compensated for, I pay the price. When your child ends up permanently injured, I pay for that. People's decisions on autonomy almost always impose costs on everyone.

The argument that the gubment shouldn't be involved in car safety at every level is just tiresome and short sighted. We've all done dumb things in cars. The fact that we're here to tell the stories is not proof that those dumb things weren't dangerous, childish and selfish.

 

[Ep Bern]

I think it is very cool. Since Jeep refuses to make a wrangler for larger families. I.e. the overlook concept which will never become a production vehicle since Jeep is to busy letting the European Union run their business. I say have at it. I would also suggest the rear seats face backwards. Access from the rear like the old station wagons. It would be a a lot safer since it’s rear facing and with more leg room and no need to crawl over the second row seats.

 

[Spartan99]

I think it is very cool. Since Jeep refuses to make a wrangler for larger families. I.e. the overlook concept which will never become a production vehicle since Jeep is to busy letting the European Union run their business. I say have at it. I would also suggest the rear seats face backwards. Access from the rear like the old station wagons. It would be a a lot safer since it’s rear facing and with more leg room and no need to crawl over the second row seats.

They make them rear facing as well.

 

[Jammer]

My opinion what's your posting for opinions if I need the third seat I would not get the Jeep. Not if it wasn't come for the fact you like that If I need the third seed I'd get us suburban we had five of them nothing like driving a suburban on the highways cowboy Cadillac so many in Texas where we live My Jeep would be the second v noehicle but for my family we have something that bigger with the third seat. Just not worth it to take a risk on our kids today

 

[Heimkehr]

My opinion what's your posting for opinions if I need the third seat I would not get the Jeep. Not if it wasn't come for the fact you like that If I need the third seed I'd get us suburban we had five of them nothing like driving a suburban on the highways cowboy Cadillac so many in Texas where we live My Jeep would be the second v noehicle but for my family we have something that bigger with the third seat. Just not worth it to take a risk on our kids today

What?

 

[Jammer]

What?

I don't think it would be safe cuz not been tested If I need a third row I would get a suburban That's what

 

[Bo Ran]

A buddy of mine at Autokicks on Longisland did a third row install complete with rollbar, 3 point belts and fold away. It looks so factory I told him he should do more of them. You guys think this could be a thing for him to try to sell or too niche?

It certainly looks nice. The legal mess in case of a wreck is clear risk. However, I recall bolting our 6th kid's car seat through the floor of our 1980's GMC custom van because we simply ran out of seats for little butts. Some families just do what they gotta do to get by. I wouldn't do it with my grandkids. But it's a new year and a new day.

 

[Jammer]

Put it this way You're driving down the road and you have let's say your kid and her friend back there and her friend gets rear-ended in a car accident and it's killed you will be sued so bad

 

[Hennessey17]

To be fair, I should have said. "haha", added a , or a /s/. The loss of subtlety in written language from live conversation is one reason the internet is filled with so much vitriol. Misunderstanding on misunderstanding devolving into hostility.

I will be more obvious next time. Thanks for rolling with it after my clarification.

I include " /s " a lot and you'd be surprised at the amount of people who still took it seriously... the internet is not a new thing... and yet 2/3rds of the country doesn't get the way it works.

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