hedgefun
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I tried to search for this and it didn't turn up what I was looking for, but apologies if this has been discussed before.
I'd never experienced installing a seat with the "premium" style LATCH connectors until the other day when I had to transport my niece and a friend's child. My friend's seat had the premium connectors. I found it extremely difficult to get a conncetion with the premium connectors. I almost gave up and used the seatbelt! I found them slightly easier to disconnect than the connectors on our Nauti, but not much. So this leaves me wondering - what is the intended premise behind the premium connectors. Is it for ease of connection/disconnection? Is anyone else with me that they are not that much easier, or do people generally prefer them?
FWIW, I think the difficulty in connecting them was the way I have to access the LATCH points in my Forester. You kind of have to go around the fabric to the side and then back over (sorry if this makes no sense). I guess I might find it easier with the traditional LATCH connectors because I can get it around the fabric, over to the side, to the back back, then pull forward onto the LATCH point all with one motion. Maybe it's because with the shape of the traditional connector I can feel where it's going a little better? So in another car it could be easier I suppose.
I'd never experienced installing a seat with the "premium" style LATCH connectors until the other day when I had to transport my niece and a friend's child. My friend's seat had the premium connectors. I found it extremely difficult to get a conncetion with the premium connectors. I almost gave up and used the seatbelt! I found them slightly easier to disconnect than the connectors on our Nauti, but not much. So this leaves me wondering - what is the intended premise behind the premium connectors. Is it for ease of connection/disconnection? Is anyone else with me that they are not that much easier, or do people generally prefer them?
FWIW, I think the difficulty in connecting them was the way I have to access the LATCH points in my Forester. You kind of have to go around the fabric to the side and then back over (sorry if this makes no sense). I guess I might find it easier with the traditional LATCH connectors because I can get it around the fabric, over to the side, to the back back, then pull forward onto the LATCH point all with one motion. Maybe it's because with the shape of the traditional connector I can feel where it's going a little better? So in another car it could be easier I suppose.