mlohry
New member
So a fellow member and I swapped seats this weekend to try something different and I got a Radian XTSL. I am a self proclaimed, never going to like Radian because of all the bad publicity they gave themselves over the whole Superlatch issues. That whole thing put me off to the company in general. But I was still curious about the seat since my 3.8 year old all of a sudden seemed very squished RF in her S4me. The 1st day I used the XTSL, I was not impressed, i didn't trust it latched in our 05 Ody so used the seat belt, which was tough to get thru that little narrow tunnel, it was hard to tighten the harness with that ratcheting thing and I didn't like that there were no sides around DDs body, felt exposed as we've always had seats with some meat around them.
So today DD climbed into the seat on her own when I wasn't paying attention and sat down in it, something she has never even attempted because her seats all sit up on bases with high sides. Her legs have lots of space so buckling her in is easy. The ratcheting thing today helped me feel secure that I had gotten the harness tight enough and loosening the harness is a piece of cake in our van, I also like the beefy chest clip. Now I kind of love the seat...how'd that happen???
I guess one question I have is should I be afraid to use the latch on our 05 Ody? I know that our Ody had known issues of loosening. Should I take the risk or just keep using the seat belt? DD sits in a captains chair.
So today DD climbed into the seat on her own when I wasn't paying attention and sat down in it, something she has never even attempted because her seats all sit up on bases with high sides. Her legs have lots of space so buckling her in is easy. The ratcheting thing today helped me feel secure that I had gotten the harness tight enough and loosening the harness is a piece of cake in our van, I also like the beefy chest clip. Now I kind of love the seat...how'd that happen???
I guess one question I have is should I be afraid to use the latch on our 05 Ody? I know that our Ody had known issues of loosening. Should I take the risk or just keep using the seat belt? DD sits in a captains chair.