Tether-able booster seats?

[tawnylee]

Are there any booster seats that you can tether available in Canada? If so which ones?

[CDNTech]

The Graco Platinum Cargo used to allow you to keep the top tether attached when in booster mode...this was several years ago and they no longer allow it last time I checked.

No other booster allows the use of a top tether.

The Clek booster (low back booster only) can be attached to the vehicle using lower anchors, but I think that's the only Canadian one. The Jane Indy Plus does this as well, but I don't believe it's available here.

[snowbird25ca]

The Graco combination seats allow you to continue to use the tether while the seat is used in booster mode. They're not tall enough to get most kids to an age/size where they pass the 5 step test though, so it's not worth it to buy one just to use as a booster unless you want need to use the harness portion as well.

There are no stand alone boosters you can buy at present that come with or allow top tethering.

Personally, unless the top tethering is required by the manufacturer of a booster, I wouldn't be comfortable doing it. It would keep the booster at the back of the vehicle instead of it moving with the child - in a side impact type crash, that could be a negative thing as the child might be at increased risk to leave the confines/protection of the booster during the crash.

I don't really see any advantage to having a booster top tethered other than it not being a projectile if it's not buckled in when empty - is there a specific reason you're looking for one with a top tether? (All boosters should be buckled in to the vehicle when unoccupied anyways.)

[snowbird25ca]

The Graco Platinum Cargo used to allow you to keep the top tether attached when in booster mode...this was several years ago and they no longer allow it last time I checked.

No other booster allows the use of a top tether.

The Clek booster (low back booster only) can be attached to the vehicle using lower anchors, but I think that's the only Canadian one. The Jane Indy Plus does this as well, but I don't believe it's available here.

I just read all the graco combination seat manuals that are on the elfe.net site a couple weeks ago - it looked to me that the manuals were current, but I didn't check the date on them. All of them included in the booster use section that you could attach the top tether. (Yep, I read car seat manuals in my spare time. :whistle: )

[snowbird25ca]

Manual is 2004 - don't know if it's been revised since then?
platinum cargo:
http://www.elfe.net/common/sitemedia/pdf18689FAR_ISPB023CB%20&%20ISPB012CA%20&%20ISPB013CB%20Manual.pdf
2. If you want to use tether
to hold seat in place,
secure it now. See
Section 8.1 Using the
Tether, page 31.

2004 treasured cargo:
http://www.elfe.net/common/sitemedia/8486HMP_ISPB024CB%20&%20ISPB012CA%20Manual.pdf
If you want to use tether to hold seat in
place, secure it now. See Section 8.1
Using the Tether, page 31.
If not using the tether, push it behind
the car seat or in the vehicle seat crease

So do you know if the manuals have been revised since then?

eta: I looked at the US site, and the platinum cargo manual is 2006 version on there and has the same wording.

[tawnylee]

I was just wondering because I know that yes, they are buckled in when they're in a booster, I always just thought that it seemed a little safer if the booster couldn't go as far because it's tethered. Maybe it only makes sense in my brain, lol. Mind you, we're a ways away from using a booster (we have a treasured cargo-2003-and my 2 integrated seats go to 50lbs) so I don't know why I'm worrying about it now!

[BudgieStew]

I was wondering about that. This past week I keep walking past a car with two seats in it one of which is booster(not sure of the make perhaps a Graco or Evenflo)

I am wary about stopping long enough to really look. I have a baby attached to my back and a large different stroller(at least for this area)and I am walking in a town that is not known for walking. It really really hilly. I attract a lot of attention.

The other side I think not but not sure maybe an older harnessed seat.

Both are attached to the top tether but get this you know how by chicken wire. The booster has some sort of thin elastic strap perhaps part of the cover coming out from behind the seat, and then chicken wire is twisted around it and attached somehow to the top tether.
I honestly am not sure what the heck is going on in that car. I pray that the other seat is not a harnessed one being tethered by chicken wire.