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You can have it at the feet or at the hood. If we put the handle at the feet, it doesn't just rest against the rear seat back. We have to push it pretty firmly. Right now, with the handle at the hood, the handle touches the back of the passenger seat, but I think if I adjust the recline on the front seat and make it more upright, the handle won't touch. I just finished scouring my car's manual in both the airbag section and the child safety section, and I couldn't find anything about the handle touching the front seat. Grrrrr.
You can have it at the feet or at the hood. If we put the handle at the feet, it doesn't just rest against the rear seat back. We have to push it pretty firmly. Right now, with the handle at the hood, the handle touches the back of the passenger seat, but I think if I adjust the recline on the front seat and make it more upright, the handle won't touch. I just finished scouring my car's manual in both the airbag section and the child safety section, and I couldn't find anything about the handle touching the front seat. Grrrrr.
If I'm not mistaken, the original change came after some testing. The foot position is considered to assist with rebound management. If the handle is directly above baby on the seats that the statement was issued for, it could cause injury. At the top of the shell, it was less likely to cause injury.
But, new regulations would take care of rebound management, correct Trudy?
You don't have to lock it in to position against the vehicle seatback. All the manual says is that it should be resting against the vehicle seatback - in some vehicles this means that the handle is between positions - but the position that it locks towards is still slightly tilted forward - it's not the straight up one.
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