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Kobain's Mommy · Mar 25, 2012

The truck is my dad's 2003 Ram. It's got the weird middle seat in the back but the MR is more than 80% on the seat. And the tether is through the loop behind the seat and run to the hook on the other side of the truck. I believe that's how I read to do it on here.

jenfrogmom · Mar 25, 2012

We have the same truck and have to do that. I am only worry about one thing in that truck, it doesn't have headrests, so I worry about rebounding into the glass window rear facing, if we were in an accident.

Syllieann · Mar 25, 2012

jenfrogmom said:
We have the same truck and have to do that. I am only worry about one thing in that truck, it doesn't have headrests, so I worry about rebounding into the glass window rear facing, if we were in an accident.

That scares me too in our truck. I'll only use seats w/ rebound control because of it but our seatbacks are much shorter too.

jenfrogmom · Mar 25, 2012

I only use rebound control in that truck, too. The seats are short. : /

Kobain's Mommy · Mar 25, 2012

That's my big concern in our truck. The kids are rarely in this truck, it's my dad and he only has them in emergencies. My dad wanted me to put them in the box and leave them there. I told him they'd be installed in the car. In DH's truck (a 98 Ram) we'll have a CCO and I'll RF tether it. We are getting a FR85 for DS in there. We only take the truck when we need to haul something big, and right now with the CA behind me and the SR32 in the center my seat is pretty much sitting on the dash inches from the air bag. Not my comfort level.

cryswilkins · Mar 25, 2012

Forgive me if I am missing something but isn't your DS young? Like under two? Is he heavy and not able to rear-face?

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse my typos.

Kobain's Mommy · Mar 25, 2012

He won't be in the FR till he's over 2. But he's over 30lbs. I think he's getting close to 35lbs. In my dad's truck I wasn't even going to fight it. I don't even think he'll ride in the till he's over 2. The cars he'll still be RFing since he's in them almost daily.

jenfrogmom · Mar 26, 2012

I wouldn't worry too much about it if it is just a once in a while thing, we hardly ever drive our truck either. Hence the fact that it has like 42,000 miles on it and it's an 03!

LISmama810 · Mar 26, 2012

You said you ran the tether through the loop on the back of that seat, then connected it on the other side of the truck? Is there not a loop in the center? Typically you'd route the tether through that seat's loop, then hook it onto the loop of an adjacent seat. (I might have misunderstood though.)

jenfrogmom · Mar 26, 2012

I run the tether through the loop behind the seat it is on, then over to three middle, then back behind the car seat. Clear as mud?

Kobain's Mommy · Mar 26, 2012

It had a center loop but for the life of me I couldn't get the flipping thing pulled up and have no idea how to flip the seat up to get it loose. It's in the loop directly behind the seat then ran along the back seat to the hook on the passenger's side.

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