trippsmom
CPST Instructor
I am struggling with the seat situation in dh's truck.
It currently does not have a tether (1997). I can have it retrofitted, but even then tethering is going to be really odd as it is going to have to go pretty high up (above the top of the car seat) and down again to the floor. (I hate the seats in the F-150.) Plus it is one day a week, maybe 2 some weeks and soon enough, July, he'll be taking my vehicle when he has kids on the one certain day every week.
So, if he goes untethered, what seat?
He's got a killer torso and is 34.5-35# on average. The only rf seats that work are the CA, RN, and TF (but TF is outgrown by weight practically). I'd like to keep him rf, but the RN has the most terribly on edge install ever and I'm not comfortable with it. The CA, well, it is made by Dorel. I hate the tf to a degree but would love a 40# limit.
It currently does not have a tether (1997). I can have it retrofitted, but even then tethering is going to be really odd as it is going to have to go pretty high up (above the top of the car seat) and down again to the floor. (I hate the seats in the F-150.) Plus it is one day a week, maybe 2 some weeks and soon enough, July, he'll be taking my vehicle when he has kids on the one certain day every week.
So, if he goes untethered, what seat?
He's got a killer torso and is 34.5-35# on average. The only rf seats that work are the CA, RN, and TF (but TF is outgrown by weight practically). I'd like to keep him rf, but the RN has the most terribly on edge install ever and I'm not comfortable with it. The CA, well, it is made by Dorel. I hate the tf to a degree but would love a 40# limit.
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Now I get to replace it. Not going to replace it with a convertible when I could get him a combo. He'll be 4 in Dec and flipped everywhere anyway (we have 2rns). Plan on buying new cco in summer so each kid has two seats and when dd2 kicks the sr32 she'll get ds's rn and he'll get another combo. It is also a short term thing. 1 day a week (sometimes Sundays) until July-ish... We'll have 2 5+ sseater vehicles sometime soon thereafter as well.
