Graco MyRide 65 installation FF

JuneBabe · Jul 31, 2011

Hi all,
I am hoping you can help!

We've been using the MyRide RF for about a year, and now that my son is past 2, we switched it to FF.
Today was the first time I had him in it, and I realized that he is super reclined in it. As in, his sippy cup was tilted too!

The instructions just say to open the wings on the bottom, and then start installing the belts when the car seat touches the car's seat.

Should I just reinstall it, and make it more upright? I found RF installation quite simple with the dial that I could refer to, but in this case, I am not sure what to do, or what I am doing wrong?
TIA!

hrice · Jul 31, 2011

Has your child outgrown the seat RF? At 2 he is still so much safer RF.

wendytthomas · Jul 31, 2011

The feet down are required forward facing.

Why not leave him rear facing? It's still FAR safer than forward facing, meets the AAP's recommendations of rear facing as long as possible, and is easy for you to install properly. Sounds like a win, win, win situation.

Wendy

Shanora · Jul 31, 2011

I push the seat as far back into the seat bite as possible, and as upright as possible, then I get into the seat and using the LATCH, I grab the strap and pull it tight, this is tricky cause you can't feed the strap across the body of the seat to get it really tight, so rocking the seat side to side while tugging on the LATCH strap works really well.

Make sure you have 80% of the base touching the vehicle seat, this might be more difficult with harder leather seats or firmer fabric seats.

lourdes · Jul 31, 2011

I think if you go to YouTube you can find videos of how to install this car seat FF correctly but and the others before me, why FF when RF is so much safer and according to what you just write he still fits RF, my daughter is 3 years old and she was FF since she was 2 but I was doing some research online and realize that RF is so much safer and that she shut be RF as long as posible so she has been RF since yesterday and it has not been easy because she was used to by FF for so long, if I was you I keep him RF now and it won't be hard for him because he is use to it, it will be harder to go back if you realize you have made the wrong decision

Brianna · Aug 1, 2011

I would also suggest turning him back rear facing until he's outgrown it by height or weight.

When it comes time to turn him forward, http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=169182 has good info about the feet you flip out not having to be 100% on the vehicle seat.
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/briheartzu/Car Seats/1117524183_photobucket_49801_.jpg This is my the MR FF in my Cavalier (just for fun, no kids old enough to FF in it yet) and that's the most upright I could get it.

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