jennzee
Active member
A friend in the neighborhood is considering buying a Frontier 85 for her 4 year old. The primary car that it will be in has a top tether anchor in the seating positions she'll have it in, but the second car that it will occasionally be in (grandma's) does not have enough top tethers to go around for the seats that are installed for other grandkids. I *thought* that I read somewhere that it requires a top tether only after the child is over 65 lbs.....but of course, I can't find where I read that, so now I'm doubting that it was in reference to this seat. Is the top tether required at all times when the seat is in harness mode? Since the other seats in grandma's car are placed in convenient seating positions for grandma to get to the kids (she watches those grandkids daily), she doesn't want a seat that will require things to be shuffled around every time her daughter is with grandma. Her daughter will be in booster mode long before she reaches 65 lbs., so if it's not required, she wants to go with that option.
While it's recommend to use the top tether in harnessed mode at any weight to reduce head excursion, the Frontier85 (and its earlier predecessor model, the Frontier/Frontier80) requires using the top tether in harnessed mode at 65 lbs. and up.
