Seat belts and insurance question - please help!!!

Hi Folks,

If anyone has some information to help me I would be very grateful. I am looking at buying a 2005 6 berth camper van and I have a question about seat belts. The seat belts include 3 point driver and front passenger seat belts, 2 x 3 point seal belts for the front facing dinette seats and a lap belt on the rear facing seat of the dinette, so 5 seat belts in total. When I check the vehicle registration certificate the part for S.1 says 2 seats. Can I get insurance that will cover my wife,myself and 3 kids in the back? Last thing I want to do is buy the camper van and not be legally covered for all 5 of us. I have read loads and I'm not sure what is correct and what isn't. The top of my head is about to blow off! Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.

Cheers
Dave

sounds like the best option alright, thanks for your input. Will ring around the insurance companies tuesday. thanks again.

thanks Roadrunner, so it doesn't matter that the Vehicle reg cert only says 2 seats, even though it has 5 seat belts, I would still be insured for 5 people seat belted? So its not an issue at all?

My last van was a 4 birth but it had to lap belts in the back L shape lounge and it was insured to carry 4 people ask your insurance company and make sure it's put on your policy

This is another issue with the work of fiction otherwise known as the RF101 (Certificate of Registration).

I have seen quite a few with the wrong number of seats (official travel seats). The figure usually filled in the Cert at S.1. is 2. The vehicles Certificate of Conformity or its original Certificate of Registration if it's a secondhand import will show the correct number of seats as authorised by the manufacturer.

The issuing of the Irish Certificate of Registration with an incorrect number of seats can cause a serious issue in a situation where a vehicle is the subject of police attention and more people are being carried than that shown on the registration certificate, remember it is a legal government document and as such will dictate how an incident may be dealt with by authorities.

I would not like to be in the situation of trying to explain to Monsieur Gendarme why I am transporting more people in my vehicle than is recorded in its 'papers'

I would urge anyone with the wrong number of seats recorded at S.1. to go about having the error corrected.