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Infant car seat and Hyundai Tiburon?
Help! We bought a Graco Sterling LiteRider travel system with the rear-facing infant car seat, based largely on Consumer Reports' top-rated recommendation. We have a 97 Hyundai Tiburon. The car seat manual specifically says that a seat belt installed forward of the crease should not be used with this car seat. The Tiburon has such a seat belt in the rear seats, about 3 inches forward of the crease (and the 2001 car model is still made that way; I checked) I've called Graco and Evenflo, and they tell me they don't make *any* seats for such a seat belt system.
I finally called the NHTSA -- which tells me I won't find a car seat that can safely be installed in a seat w/ the seat belt forward of the crease.
Hyundai reps say the Tiburon comes with rear-deck anchors to use with a tether system and that its car meets all safety standards. My question is: from what I understand, there's only three or four rear-facing seats that can even be used w/ a tether -- I don't know if there were any even made back in 1997. I think I'm getting bad information from Hyundai, and that *no* rear-facing seat will work in this car (just looking at the physics of using a tether with a rear-facing car seat in this car gives me pause: the car seat looks like it'd flip straight up in the air with a tether).
Does anyone have any information about a Tiburon and a car seat??? We can't afford another car!
TIA,
kren
Help! We bought a Graco Sterling LiteRider travel system with the rear-facing infant car seat, based largely on Consumer Reports' top-rated recommendation. We have a 97 Hyundai Tiburon. The car seat manual specifically says that a seat belt installed forward of the crease should not be used with this car seat. The Tiburon has such a seat belt in the rear seats, about 3 inches forward of the crease (and the 2001 car model is still made that way; I checked) I've called Graco and Evenflo, and they tell me they don't make *any* seats for such a seat belt system.
I finally called the NHTSA -- which tells me I won't find a car seat that can safely be installed in a seat w/ the seat belt forward of the crease.
Hyundai reps say the Tiburon comes with rear-deck anchors to use with a tether system and that its car meets all safety standards. My question is: from what I understand, there's only three or four rear-facing seats that can even be used w/ a tether -- I don't know if there were any even made back in 1997. I think I'm getting bad information from Hyundai, and that *no* rear-facing seat will work in this car (just looking at the physics of using a tether with a rear-facing car seat in this car gives me pause: the car seat looks like it'd flip straight up in the air with a tether).
Does anyone have any information about a Tiburon and a car seat??? We can't afford another car!
TIA,
kren