Help?!
We are looking at a 2006 Beetle convertible, and when we went to the (Volkswagen) dealership to see it we could not find tether anchors. The salespeople naturally said they thought they could install them, but all my research suggests that this is unlikely because of the roll bars that come up in the event of a roll over.
I have a 4 year old who is still in a 5-point harness in a Britax frontier and an Alpha Omega convertible seat (he is still under the height and weight limit for both.) The dealership CLAIMS that it is possible to thread the seatbelt in place of the tether, but this just sounds wrong to me and I can't find anything in either manual to support this.
My questions are:
1) I was under the impression that all vehicles sold in Canada after a certain year require a tether anchor. Is there some kind of exemption for convertibles?
2) Is it legal to use a FF car seat that is designed to be tethered without the tether? Just for the record, I would not do this, and we won't buy the vehicle unless they can install the anchor for us, but I would like to be able to tell the dealership that the information they are providing is wrong, if in fact it is.
I am having a hard time finding anything definitive online about whether use of the tether is required if the car seat has it, so help from one of the experts would be great.
Thanks in advance!
We are looking at a 2006 Beetle convertible, and when we went to the (Volkswagen) dealership to see it we could not find tether anchors. The salespeople naturally said they thought they could install them, but all my research suggests that this is unlikely because of the roll bars that come up in the event of a roll over.
I have a 4 year old who is still in a 5-point harness in a Britax frontier and an Alpha Omega convertible seat (he is still under the height and weight limit for both.) The dealership CLAIMS that it is possible to thread the seatbelt in place of the tether, but this just sounds wrong to me and I can't find anything in either manual to support this.
My questions are:
1) I was under the impression that all vehicles sold in Canada after a certain year require a tether anchor. Is there some kind of exemption for convertibles?
2) Is it legal to use a FF car seat that is designed to be tethered without the tether? Just for the record, I would not do this, and we won't buy the vehicle unless they can install the anchor for us, but I would like to be able to tell the dealership that the information they are providing is wrong, if in fact it is.
I am having a hard time finding anything definitive online about whether use of the tether is required if the car seat has it, so help from one of the experts would be great.
Thanks in advance!