Well that's a new one

LISmama810

Admin - CPS Technician
We have a rental car for a few days while our car is being repaired, so I just spent a while trying to get three across in a Jeep Wrangler (possible but not fun).

Anyway, I started in the middle, and I noticed right away that the middle seatbelt was messed up. I thought it was just a flipped latchplate, so I spent about 10 minutes flipping it and flipping it and making my brain hurt, trying to figure out why it was still WRONG!!!

Then I finally noticed that the belt itself was twisted. WTF?

I followed it all the way to the bottom and felt around, and I noticed that the adjoining buckle had a really strange strap holding it...until I realized the strange strap was the middle seatbelt.

Someone had made kind-of a slipknot with the middle belt to anchor the outboard buckle.

This is after I had loosened it a bit:

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It took me a couple minutes to free it, but I finally got it back to normal:

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PITA.
 
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momtoo3

Well-known member
Lol, that looks like what I found in the 3rd row of my van when ds1 decided to get creative to stop the the buckle from going down the crack/hole when he buckles it in. He thought it was genius to unbuckle the Scenera that was in the middle using the lapbelt, loop it around a few times and then buckle the Scenera back in....to get him some credit, he got the Scenera in nice and tight again. When I told him it wasn't safe for the Scenera rider he said he would just not buckle then because the buckle got pushed down under the seat every time and he was tired of me yelling at him for not being careful (each time it happened I had to go pull 2 strollers out of the back of the van to be able to reach and push it back up, very annoying.) After that I cut a short piece of pool noodle (like an inch high) and made a slit so I could shove the buckle into the hole in the center of the noodle. It didn't affect the buckle at all when buckled but kept it from sliding down under the seat.
 

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