Fun install

Baylor

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #1

Fr85. Mustang back seat. Broke 2 nails and banged my head 2 times.

This was not a install by choice. My battery died and my dad needed to pick me up in the GT.

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agave

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #2

I don't envy you. I've only installed FF Roundabouts in our mustang and banging head isn't an issue since it's a convertible. What year is it and was there any room for another seat?

 

Baylor

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #3

agave said:

I don't envy you. I've only installed FF Roundabouts in our mustang and banging head isn't an issue since it's a convertible. What year is it and was there any room for another seat?

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2009. Two buckets in the back. I was hoping I could get my mom she has an edge. But of course not.

By the way is the latch limit in it 40 or 48? Something crossed my mind as I tried LBP only to find it did not reach.

Used YouTube to do sbp and tethered it.

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Jeanum

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #4

Mustang GT, vroom vroom. All Ford models have a 48 lb. weight limit for using the lower LATCH anchors (and allow top tether usage up to the carseat's maximum capacity when installed with the vehicle seatbelt :thumbsup.

 

Baylor

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #5

Jeanum said:

Mustang GT, vroom vroom. All Ford models have a 48 lb. weight limit for using the lower LATCH anchors (and allow top tether usage up to the carseat's maximum capacity when installed with the vehicle seatbelt :thumbsup.

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Thanks! What a fun day. Did I mention it is cold and rainy ?
Such is life.

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Jeanum

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #6

You're welcome. Cold and rainy here, too, and going to snow later, ugh. Hoping to sit in a Mustang or two among other cars this weekend at the auto show if we don't get snowed in here.

 

Baylor

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #7

Jeanum said:

You're welcome. Cold and rainy here, too, and going to snow later, ugh. Hoping to sit in a Mustang or two among other cars this weekend at the auto show if we don't get snowed in here.

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That sounds like more fun.
I knew the edge has a 48 lb but I was not sure it was all fords.

Just so you know I made a new rule.

If you have a battery die and have to install a fr85 in a mustang and break a nail.

You get to put bacon in your salad.
So let it be written..,.

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Lenae

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #8

If I had to put a fr85 in the backseat of a Mustang, I'd eat ice cream for lunch. Forget the salad.

 

Baylor

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• Jan 12, 2012

• #9

Lenae said:

If I had to put a fr85 in the backseat of a Mustang, I'd eat ice cream for lunch. Forget the salad.

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Lol I'm trying so hard to be good. We went to McDs to get E lunch and I had nothing but a diet coke.

Now I need to get geared up to walk to me sons school to pick him up and it is nasty outside.
So want this day over.

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agave

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• Jan 13, 2012

• #10

Baylor said:

2009. Two buckets in the back.

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It sounds like the back seats may have grown a little.

Bacon and ice cream are good things and should be eaten regularly.

 

Baylor

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• Jan 13, 2012

• #11

agave said:

It sounds like the back seats may have grown a little.

Bacon and ice cream are good things and should be eaten regularly.

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It took all I had to push it back into the seat and it still was off the front a little. I just had no choice. But it was good and solid.

I agree about bacon.

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Baylor

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• Jan 13, 2012

• #12

More fun this morning as it was sleeting when I went out to reinstall his seat in my van.

In pure desperation I threw him on the scale and he was 47 lbs. so I installed with LATCH just to get ds1 to school.

I will reinstall with LBP as soon as the mess outside goes somewhere else.

What a fun few days.

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