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I'm struggling! First of all, DD is rear facing in this seat now. She's 13 months and about 25 pounds. We bought it to replace an old Triumph that she was getting too tall for. Which ironically worked out perfectly rear facing...I guess because it was shorter?? I intended to keep her rear facing longer, but in the short while we've had the True Fit we have run into a problem...
Currently it's in the rear middle seat. When DH drives and pushes the seat back to where he needs it (or even leaves it closer than what's comfortable for him) it hits the top of the seat and pushes it partially sideways. It sits on a serious lean. I'm talking 3+ inches to the side! It's got the head rest on because she's too tall to go without it. There's no way this thing would fit even behind the passenger seat scooted up. With the head rest and the size of my (tiny) back seat it's simply too tall. Then it's so tightly strapped to the seat of the vehicle that we have to practically reinstall it to get it straightened back out!
So as reluctant as I am, I think the only way to get a proper install with this seat is to use it forward facing. We could potentially put her back in the triumph, but that will be very temporary. It's an older model, that I was told on here is apparently a very short one - that explains why it lasted us like 3 months!
Ok...so short of any alternative I'm attempting a forward facing install and have run into trouble. I only have anchors for the tether strap behind the two side seats, not the middle. I only have latch hooks in the middle seat! What the heck? That just doesn't make sense? Am I missing something? Why wouldn't there be a tether anchor behind the middle seat? I don't want her in the side seats for multiple reasons...I want her in the middle! What do I do?
Currently it's in the rear middle seat. When DH drives and pushes the seat back to where he needs it (or even leaves it closer than what's comfortable for him) it hits the top of the seat and pushes it partially sideways. It sits on a serious lean. I'm talking 3+ inches to the side! It's got the head rest on because she's too tall to go without it. There's no way this thing would fit even behind the passenger seat scooted up. With the head rest and the size of my (tiny) back seat it's simply too tall. Then it's so tightly strapped to the seat of the vehicle that we have to practically reinstall it to get it straightened back out!
So as reluctant as I am, I think the only way to get a proper install with this seat is to use it forward facing. We could potentially put her back in the triumph, but that will be very temporary. It's an older model, that I was told on here is apparently a very short one - that explains why it lasted us like 3 months!
Ok...so short of any alternative I'm attempting a forward facing install and have run into trouble. I only have anchors for the tether strap behind the two side seats, not the middle. I only have latch hooks in the middle seat! What the heck? That just doesn't make sense? Am I missing something? Why wouldn't there be a tether anchor behind the middle seat? I don't want her in the side seats for multiple reasons...I want her in the middle! What do I do?