landofenchantment
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My child is 6 yo, 47" tall, 42 pounds. Seated in middle row, right side, of a 2008 Honda Pilot, using a Britax Frontier. Harness is in highest position, but in a few months he will be too tall for it, so we are preparing to switch to booster. We tried out the Frontier in booster mode just to see how it would go, but found that DS cannot buckle himself. First problem, he has to reach back over his right shoulder and around the contoured head restraint to grab the shoulder belt, but he can't reach that far--he'd have to be a contortionist. Then, he is not able to feed the shoulder belt through the belt guide (marked in red plastic), and even if he could, then he has to pull it down to his lower left to somehow buckle it. He can't do that because the car's buckle-latch thingy is behind him to the left, is almost out of reach, and he can't see it because of the molded head restraint again. So basically, I or another adult have to buckle him in, and I just can't see going back to that. He's been fastening his own harness for quite some time now. Second problem--performing the above operation results in pulling the shoulder belt out quite far, and then it locks up. We have to let the belt retract completely and then start again. It doesn't seem like it should be this hard. Am I doing something wrong, or should I just get a booster-only seat? I like the side-impact protection of the molded head support, but he can't buckle himself into it. Thanks for any help you can offer.