I posted yesterday (thread called "Please check this: RF Radian XTSL in 98 Caravan Ctpn Chair") and wendytthomas very kindly looked at my pictures and said it looked ok. It really was a good installation - almost no movement ... until it got loose!
My captain's chairs in my 1998 Dodge grand caravan have long, rigid buckle stalks (with lightweight locking latchplates). To get the install to not wiggle, I slid the rearfacing foot a couple inches out of the seat bight and used a locking H-clip because the height of the latchplate was all the way up at the radian's beltpath. Here's a picture:
It was nice and upright and a tight install without any movement at the belt path really at all. I didn't actually have my son (2 1/2 yrs, about 33#, 36") ride in it, but it got loose somehow since I installed it yesterday. Loose, like more than an inch of movement. I had a guess that it happened by the foot sliding back into the bight.
SO, I re-installed it and bounced my hand onto the back-rest part of the radian (like where my son's back will rest). Sort of a simulation of something that he does in real life when he's really trying to make me mad (he puts his feet onto the back-rest of the car's seat and pushes his carseat back --- it never loosens the Britax Boulevard he's in, but I always worry it's going to damage it).
When the radian is bounced back a few times, it's enough movement to leverage up the foot so that it slides back into the bight, which makes the radian more reclined and makes the radian's beltpath lower, which makes the installation loose. And actually, with the radian beltpath lower (when the foot is all the way into the bight), I don't think I can make the installation tight no matter what because the latchplate is then slightly higher than the radian's beltpath.
What can I do???? When a rf carseat is pulled out of the bight a little bit to make for a more upright install, what is supposed to keep it from sliding back in?
Any advice would be SOOOO appreciated!!!
My captain's chairs in my 1998 Dodge grand caravan have long, rigid buckle stalks (with lightweight locking latchplates). To get the install to not wiggle, I slid the rearfacing foot a couple inches out of the seat bight and used a locking H-clip because the height of the latchplate was all the way up at the radian's beltpath. Here's a picture:
It was nice and upright and a tight install without any movement at the belt path really at all. I didn't actually have my son (2 1/2 yrs, about 33#, 36") ride in it, but it got loose somehow since I installed it yesterday. Loose, like more than an inch of movement. I had a guess that it happened by the foot sliding back into the bight.
SO, I re-installed it and bounced my hand onto the back-rest part of the radian (like where my son's back will rest). Sort of a simulation of something that he does in real life when he's really trying to make me mad (he puts his feet onto the back-rest of the car's seat and pushes his carseat back --- it never loosens the Britax Boulevard he's in, but I always worry it's going to damage it).
When the radian is bounced back a few times, it's enough movement to leverage up the foot so that it slides back into the bight, which makes the radian more reclined and makes the radian's beltpath lower, which makes the installation loose. And actually, with the radian beltpath lower (when the foot is all the way into the bight), I don't think I can make the installation tight no matter what because the latchplate is then slightly higher than the radian's beltpath.
What can I do???? When a rf carseat is pulled out of the bight a little bit to make for a more upright install, what is supposed to keep it from sliding back in?
Any advice would be SOOOO appreciated!!!