jenfrogmom
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The d ring to go around the driver or passenger's seat belt stalk? I know I would never do it, but the guy at the local Britax retailer is installing seats like this. I fix every one I see that is done this way.
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Yup! As long as it's not interfering with the seatbelt. It's a non moving bolted part of the car forward and down from the carseat, right?
I prefer not to, but I have. Usually with an unused belt, though.
Wendy
I responded to this last time it was asked. Yes as long as the seat belt stalk it's on is not in use.
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Actually, I've been told by a couple people who seemed to know what they were talking about that there's no reason you can't use the seatbelt if you RF tether to the anchor for it. And their explaination made sense.
I totally understand why you can't TETHER (like temporary tethering a FF seat) to a seatbelt and then also use it. But I am not convinced that the forces put on a seatbelt anchor by a strap wrapped around it that a seat is RF tethered to would in any way interfere with the seatbelt protecting the occupant. The forces are working in different directions. In a rear-impact crash, the anchor takes a bit of force, mostly dissipated by the length of the d-ring strap, but the seatbelt only restrains the occupant on "rebound." In a frontal crash, the seatbelt restrains the passenger, then the anchor only takes rebound forces. In a side-impact, that's probably the riskiest because both are going the same way- but I still think that most of the force would be dissipated along the length of the strap as it stretches, and not enough would hit the anchor to endanger the occupant.
Now, I find it horribly inconvenient, so I almost never do it. But I've done it once or twice.
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