Does the Seatbelts fit these children correctly?

lovinwaves

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• Jun 10, 2007

• #1

Cadillac Commercial showing two children in the back seat sleeping buckled in with seatbelt. Are they technically safe they way they are shown. Are they sitting on built-in boosters?

If it doesn't go straight to the video, then click on the one that says "Sun".

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/footer/downloads.jsp

 

scatterbunny

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• Jun 10, 2007

• #2

Does Cadillac have seatbelt adjusters for the shoulderbelt? It looks like it.

The belts look positioned okay (maybe a bit high on the neck of the older kid?), but it's hard to tell if the knees bend at the edge of the seat. I doubt their feet touch the floor, and I doubt kids that age and size could stay seated that way for the whole trip.

 

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TxMomma

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• Jun 10, 2007

• #3

lovinwaves said:

Cadillac Commercial showing two children in the back seat sleeping buckled in with seatbelt. Are they technically safe they way they are shown. Are they sitting on built-in boosters?

If it doesn't go straight to the video, then click on the one that says "Sun".

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/footer/downloads.jsp

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To me it looks like the little boy is riding in a built in, I don't think the belt fits him good enough. The little girl looks fine to me.

Am I missing something?

 

tjham

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• Jun 10, 2007

• #4

To me, it looks like they are awake but enjoying the sun and the breeze. They had backpacks so I thought they were on the way to school, maybe?

I can see the little red adjuster on the boy's seat belt.

 

TXDani

Senior Community Member

• Jun 10, 2007

• #5

I think they are in back-less boosters. The red adjustor thingie looks like the one that comes with the Turbo.

 

Morganthe

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• Jun 10, 2007

• #6

The boy's in some sort of backless booster, might be a built-in. Then again, he looks like he's sitting on the actual seat and the shoulder belt is lower than usual. It's coming across his collarbone. Might not be perfect, but even as an adult, I've had plenty of seatbelts fit that way

Little girl is in a grey full booster seat, possibly an Evenflo. It has the red shoulder guides.

The "pause" picture is very clear. They're not wearing any backpacks in the vehicle.

 

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TxMomma

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• Jun 11, 2007

• #7

tjham said:

To me, it looks like they are awake but enjoying the sun and the breeze. They had backpacks so I thought they were on the way to school, maybe?

I can see the little red adjuster on the boy's seat belt.

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That's not the video she's talking about, if you scroll down the page to the first (i think) row of videos it's the one labeled "sun".

 

JOII

Active member

• Jun 11, 2007

• #8

I took a screen cap. Both in backless boosters maybe turbos, and they look OK to me. (though I'm no booster pro)

 

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Kellyr2

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• Jun 11, 2007

• #9

Okay, I figured out why it's so confusing. I was just typing up a post on how they were SO obviously NOT in boosters when I figured it out. The boosters they are using are the EXACT same color as the vehicle's interior. So, the tan surface they are sitting on, are the boosters. The armrests are the booster armrests, and the red below them is the red belt guide. I was thinking it was just the female end of the seatbelt until I saw that the seatbelt wrapped around the red part. A car wouldn't have armrests like that, especially not with the fold down center right there.

 

TXDani

Senior Community Member

• Jun 11, 2007

• #10

Kellyr2 said:

The boosters they are using are the EXACT same color as the vehicle's interior. So, the tan surface they are sitting on, are the boosters. The armrests are the booster armrests, and the red below them is the red belt guide.

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:yeahthat:

hahah Yeah thats what I was going to say...thanks to whoever did the screenprint you can really tell what they are.

 

beeman

Active member

• Jun 11, 2007

• #11

The one on the right needs the adjuster that comes with the turbo. The one on the left has got one so it's good.

 

scatterbunny

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• Jun 11, 2007

• #12

Haha, good eyes, people! I totally could not tell that they were in backless boosters, it just looked like vehicle seats to me, with really strange armrests!

 

Loves2sing

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• Jun 11, 2007

• #13

They probably choose those boosters on purpose so that you wouldn't see them.

 

TXDani

Senior Community Member

• Jun 11, 2007

• #14

Yeah they probably did! Who knows maybe they airbrushed the boosters to match the cars interior, because it is pretty much the exact same color.
Isn't it funny how tons of people think carseats are ugly, dorky, and want to hide them and then there are people like us who think they are the coolest things ever made and want to show them off!?!?