LittlePeanut
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A friend has her child in a home DC and something happened and he had to be dropped off with me. My friend is relatively car seat conscious (Her 18 m/o is RF and she plans to keep him RF to 2 y/o). She has Radians and is pretty good at getting them installed properly and knows the rules.
Her DCP is not so, ummm, aware. Sigh. It was pretty bad. When he arrived today. He was RF and things I noticed off hand were:
I'm not certain, but suspect it's expired too. I need help deciphering the code. The manual and several stickers are missing so I can't find a DOM or model number. It's an AO seat and has one of those round/dial stamps imprinted in the plastic of the removable base. It's pointing at the 12 and has (OMG please tell me it's not what I think it is...) a 99 in the middle of the dial. There is a 01 and an "N" about an inch away from the dial. If it helps, it's a 35 lb RF model.
Am I right that this a DEC 1999 DOM? I think my friend would sooner bury her head in the sand and pray that the DCP doesn't travel with him in the vehicle. If so, it doesn't matter if it's a 6 or 8 year expiry because either way, it's horribly expired.
What would you do? I will tell my friend but her DC is only in this woman's care for the next 3 weeks and then he's going to another institutional DC so she's unlikely to want to spend the money on a seat. If I wasn't concerned about what this woman might do to MY seats, I'd find a way to loan her one for the time. But if I did that, I would need to consider it crashed.
HELP!! ASAP as I may need to go out with them to pick up my other child in 2 hours!!
Her DCP is not so, ummm, aware. Sigh. It was pretty bad. When he arrived today. He was RF and things I noticed off hand were:
- straps were significantly ABOVE his shoulders
- straps were twisted so horribly that they appeared to be 1/2" wide
- the straps were much too loose
- the angle was likely more upright than 30*
- it was a seatbelt install and the belt was NOT locked
I'm not certain, but suspect it's expired too. I need help deciphering the code. The manual and several stickers are missing so I can't find a DOM or model number. It's an AO seat and has one of those round/dial stamps imprinted in the plastic of the removable base. It's pointing at the 12 and has (OMG please tell me it's not what I think it is...) a 99 in the middle of the dial. There is a 01 and an "N" about an inch away from the dial. If it helps, it's a 35 lb RF model.
Am I right that this a DEC 1999 DOM? I think my friend would sooner bury her head in the sand and pray that the DCP doesn't travel with him in the vehicle. If so, it doesn't matter if it's a 6 or 8 year expiry because either way, it's horribly expired.
What would you do? I will tell my friend but her DC is only in this woman's care for the next 3 weeks and then he's going to another institutional DC so she's unlikely to want to spend the money on a seat. If I wasn't concerned about what this woman might do to MY seats, I'd find a way to loan her one for the time. But if I did that, I would need to consider it crashed.
HELP!! ASAP as I may need to go out with them to pick up my other child in 2 hours!!