Getting Nautilus into backless mode

tjham

New member
OMG! What an ordeal. I remember going thru this to take the harness out to make it a HBB. Now I needed to take the back off. I was alone, so no extra set of hands. I finally used my head (and I mean that literally) to head butt the back, to unhook it from the bottom!

I will be going thru it again with the one in his dad's car in a few days. But now I will know what I am doing and will have help so I won't look as foolish as I'm sure I did a few minutes! :p

It was mentioned on another thread that the bottom of the Nautilus has a longer expiration date than the backand I remember hearing that also. But the manual said to go by the date on the bottom. I looked at the mfg date of 2-11-2008. Then I found the stamp on the bottom that said Do not use after Dec 2014. That is only 6 1/2 years!

Is it the newer ones that have the longer time for the bottoms?

And then I saw that it said "Do not use Latch in backless booster mode." Sheeesh. I thought you could and was looking forward to it.

But otherwise, I have loved this seat so don't let my ranting scare anyone away!


;)
 
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wendytthomas

Admin - CPST Instructor
Staff member
Your seat allows for backless use until nine years after the DOM. December of the 9th. So December 31, 2017.

The LATCH strap is in the back of the seat. It wouldn't work backless.

Wendy
 

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