In 7.5 years of using car seats, this is a new one for me.
This weekend I converted my Britax Frontier from harness to booster for my DS in my wife's car. I performed the same conversion in my Subaru Impreza about a month ago for him as well - with no problem. He's been able to buckle himself in my car without too much trouble.
In my wife's '10 Forester things are different. Same car manufacture, two model years apart, same car seat model, new problems. He can't buckle himself and it's excruciatingly difficult for me or my wife to buckle him.
It seems that in the '10 Forester, the seat belt tongue is angled toward the seat bottom. Also, the buckle is secured to the car very low into the seat - it's not sticking up and doesn't have much freedom of motion. Add these two geometries to the Frontier's side coming very close to the seat buckle itself and it's an extreme challenge to buckle the seat belt.
Has anyone experience this or something similar? Are there any good solutions or better fitting high back boosters?
This weekend I converted my Britax Frontier from harness to booster for my DS in my wife's car. I performed the same conversion in my Subaru Impreza about a month ago for him as well - with no problem. He's been able to buckle himself in my car without too much trouble.
In my wife's '10 Forester things are different. Same car manufacture, two model years apart, same car seat model, new problems. He can't buckle himself and it's excruciatingly difficult for me or my wife to buckle him.
It seems that in the '10 Forester, the seat belt tongue is angled toward the seat bottom. Also, the buckle is secured to the car very low into the seat - it's not sticking up and doesn't have much freedom of motion. Add these two geometries to the Frontier's side coming very close to the seat buckle itself and it's an extreme challenge to buckle the seat belt.
Has anyone experience this or something similar? Are there any good solutions or better fitting high back boosters?
