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Originally Posted by Obioban

If the lap belt can't be snugged against you, it is not safe-- regardless of who sold it.

... and the Carera GT is hardly known for being a safe car.

Porsche's production cars do a much better job with that:



As do BMW's:







Maybe the sides of the CGT seat are low enough that that placement still allows for a snugged lap belt for most drivers. But, those Recaro sides are high! I'm a big dude, and I couldn't safely use the factory 3 point when I had a Recaro Profi SPG XL installed in my car, running over the top of the seat.



(and passing it through the lap belt pass through hole created to extreme and angle to sit comfortably in the seat:

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I have gone down this same road as well. I spent a bunch of money on new receivers to allow for inner routing of the belts on a 911 track car I had in the past. Then went out of my way to find a seat that allowed the receiver to reside inboard on the e92. In my case the Profi-XL worked with the e92 receiver placed on the inside (like the M3 GTS). I agree that it seems that it is best to have the belt and receiver on the inside of the seat. However as I researched deeper and deeper I found some examples of production cars that placed the receiver on the outside - like the Carrera GT. Now of course I can't find any more examples other than that. At this point I chose to compromise with a seat that fits me properly but doesn't allow for the seatbelt receiver on the inside. I'm OK with that risk as the belt continues to fit firmly on my lap. I wonder if there's another receiver that could be used on the E92 that provides the ability to be routed to the inside. I know there are options that delete the pretensioner charge but I think that would detract from the safety. Did you ever look into that?