Notaclue
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VERY scary! I have never seen anything like it. She has a 6 month old baby boy, but I am not sure of his size (I think she said 17lbs, but not sure how tall) Anyway, we saw him for the first time over Thanksgiving. My dh mentioned to her that if she had any questions about carseats she should ask me. So she asked me to go check out her bf's seat in his car. I have never seen anything like it. They had it installed in the middle seat of an older Toyota Camry. They used to seatbelt to install since they knew not to use LATCH in that position. I think the seat was a Evenflo Titan Elite, but I am not 100% sure. They had removed the LATCH strap since they weren't using it, and they had one end of it hooked to the storage spot. Then they had it tethered to the driver's side headrest (with the LATCH strap!) The actual top tether was just dangling there. They also had the harness set on the TOP slots.
I am not a tech, but I obviously knew it was all wrong, so I took the seat completely out and started from scratch. I installed it and moved the slots down to the correct slots and let her know that rf the slots needed to be at or below his shoulders. I also let her know she couldn't tether the seat like that and she couldn't tether an Evenflo seat rf anyway. This isn't the seat he rides in most of the time, and I didn't get to see the full time seat, but hopefully since I explained some things to her she can go back and read the manual for the other seat and get it right. I asked her to try to find a tech, but I doubt she will. At least the little guy is safer than he was.
I am not a tech, but I obviously knew it was all wrong, so I took the seat completely out and started from scratch. I installed it and moved the slots down to the correct slots and let her know that rf the slots needed to be at or below his shoulders. I also let her know she couldn't tether the seat like that and she couldn't tether an Evenflo seat rf anyway. This isn't the seat he rides in most of the time, and I didn't get to see the full time seat, but hopefully since I explained some things to her she can go back and read the manual for the other seat and get it right. I asked her to try to find a tech, but I doubt she will. At least the little guy is safer than he was.