I am utterly baffled

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tarabelle

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #1

at how this could have happened.

Some may recall me posting here before about my sitter getting in an accident with my seat and me needing to find a replacement. We ended up getting a TrueFit for DD1 to use at her house.

We stopped going to this provider for care and picked up the seat Saturday night. When I brought it in I was annoyed with the tether anchor swinging so I put it on the bed and went to stow it so we could store the seat.

And that's when I noticed the problem

I can't even begin to imagine how she managed to get the clip to STAY open! It will not close anymore, it's permanently stuck like this.

I've already informed her that I'm not eating the cost of another seat wrecked under her care, but really, how do you manage to do this? Aren't these hooks manufactured to withstand thousands of pounds of force???

Anyone have any thoughts or words of wisdom here?

 

Spam

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #2

That's actually a fairly common problem with the truefit Even on seats that haven't been used ffing.

eta: http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=118067&highlight=true+fit+tether+fix
http://car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=100598&highlight=true+fit+broken+top+tether

 

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tarabelle

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #3

Thanks.

I will try that, if it doesn't work, I will call learning curve and see if they'll replace it. :thumbsup:

 

jess71903

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #4

Yep, I'm borrowing trippsmom's TFP right now. I am pretty sure it has never been used FF and it looks like that. The part that takes the force is the curved part. The part that is bent in is just supposed to keep it clipped to the anchor.

 

TechnoGranola

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #5

I've put the link to the instructions from Learning Curve on my Google Docs here https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...aCZqD1qFMqoy-9zgbJy5QmBmXxU_K5Ko4t31I0q&hl=en

My suggestions are to use a larger diameter screwdriver and have some strong do it. They have to really pull up beyond where you think is necessary to bring it back. That worked for ours.

 

Babywearing Meghan

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #6

nope it wasn't the sitter, some of them are just like that, call learning curve and have them send a new one on over! I had to have one replaced for the same reason!

 

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tarabelle

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #7

Thanks guys, I tried to do the screwdriver thing, nope. I'm a weakling I guess.

I will call Learning Curve tomorrow or Wednesday and see what they say.

I couldn't figure out how she could damage it............

 

TechnoGranola

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #8

tarabelle said:

Thanks guys, I tried to do the screwdriver thing, nope. I'm a weakling I guess.

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Do you have tough friend or spouse that could try for you? You have to pull back toward the narrow part and like I said earlier, way easier to use a much larger diameter screwdriver.

tarabelle said:

I couldn't figure out how she could damage it............

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She didn't; they come that way. Both of mine were like that and had never even had the tether detached from the seat.

 

ericarizo

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #9

Good luck. Learning Curve will not send just a tether because of how it is in the seat. I fought with them for a month because of that issue. They informed me to use the seat without it...

 

turtlemama

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• Jan 10, 2011

• #10

I had this happen a lot on my seats. The first time was with a Scenera and then again with the 2 GNs I had and if I remember right, it is the same on my TF. I just bent them at the bottom until it was touching the hook part again. The GNs were totally my fault. I didn't know that the 3rd row of my vehicle does not have LATCH and what I was feeling and thinking was LATCH was just the metal part of the seat where it folds down. I had them clipped on there and that messed up that piece. I am very glad I tried to install the TF back there since the push button LATCH will not hook onto what is not a LATCH anchor or I would not have known I had my kids in there only attached by a tether on one and not at all on the other

 

Mommy0608

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• Jan 11, 2011

• #11

This happened on my True Fit too, and it had never been used FF. The first time, they ended up replacing my seat (I was one of the first ones to find this problem). Then, it happened on the replacement seat. This time, they sent me a repair kit for it. It's a little clip-thingy that you attach to the tether and it pushes it shut. I'm not too worried about it now... I've been using the seat FF with the "fix" installed and I know it's tethered securely.

I didn't read the links provided to previous threads, sorry if this is duplicate info.

 

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tarabelle

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• Jan 12, 2011

• #12

Thanks everyone! I called Learning Curve today, they are sending me out a repair kit

 

babygirlsmom1005

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• Jan 12, 2011

• #13

My original TFP was replaced due to that....I look back (it's RF'ing) and guess what? The one that replaced it is doing it now too >.<

I guess I need to call Learning Curve and get one of those repair kits.