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Muz,
I have an electronic copy of the installation instructions, and I will e-mail them from home tonight. They are precise about which holes need to be drilled, and where. There are at least two seat designs and the instructions are for the later one (no armrests), but I think the holes placment remained the same when they changed designs, in case you have the one with armrests.
I am sure that no holes are pre-drilled in the wagon floor.
I am cannot remember about the inner-fender arches, but I think they also are undrilled. But removing the cloth inner-fender arch covers from those wells requires only that a few screws be removed, as the covers are held in place mostly by pre-cut slits slipped over metal tabs in the body.
In both the floor and the arches, Volvo intends that you install on the exterior side of the holes the reinforcements they provide with the seat.
I believe that the reinforcements for the seatbelt ends have threads for the securing bolts.
The reinforcement for the floor (which effectively anchors the latches in the middle of the seatbelts) is a heavy-duty piece of angle iron with several nuts welded in. Installing it properly requires that several holes be drilled in the floor, each about a half-inch in diameter. As the gas tank is just below the floor, of course, this needs to be done with considerable care. And removing the cargo shelf is necessary to get the access to the floor that you will need.
Removing the shelf is less difficult than you might think -- a total of nine screws secure the fixed part of the shelf, seven in front (behind the rear seat, visible when you raise the front hinged part of the shelf) and two in the rear (visible when you raise the rear hinged part of the shelf). And you can mount the seat frame to it before you reinstall it, which should make that part of the job easier.
If you don't put in the reinforcements, the seat belts would come loose in a serious crash, and as the seat is designed only for children below a certain weight (even WITH the reinforcements), that is cause for concern.
If it were easy, it wouldn't be any fun.
Good luck,
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jds
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