tl01
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Recently, I met a friend from out of town for breakfast. Once we were done... and knowing I'm a car seat nut, she asked if I could look at how her DS's Marathon was installed in her mom's car (as her mom had tried to replicate the tech's install that had been done before a previous trip.) When I saw the install I was horrified! The LATCH was used but was super loose and the FFing belt path was used though the seat was installed RFing. The seat belt was also just loosely latched. On top of that the seat was at about a 60 degree angle! Of course I had to at least improve the install. We both had to be somewhere after the breakfast so I had to work as quickly as possible. When I started to install the seat, I saw that the LATCH straps were completely twisted at the point where you loosen and tighten it (what's the word for that part?) I tried to fix the straps but they were sooooo messed up. My friend was getting ansy to depart and I have never tried to install the seat with the seat belt so I didn't think I'd be able to do it very quickly (have never needed to not use the LATCH for that particular seat). I installed the seat as best I could with the LATCH. It moved less than one inch though it wasn't rock solid like my seat. I showed her how to reinstall the seat but told her she needed to go home and fix the straps b/c it wasn't safe to have them like that. I hated to see her leave before the seat was properly installed but she was late for a very important event. What would you have done in that situation?