Toyota Sienna latch limit?

knlrachel · May 6, 2014

I am borrowing a 2004 Toyota Sienna from my friend for the next week while mine is in the shop. I have 4 Radians and one HB booster. My one daughter really wanted to ride in the back row, but I could not get a tight install on the passenger side seat (the only one available for her back there). I was able to get a LATCH install that was good. However, she is in a Radian 80SL and weighs 42 pounds. I am wondering if she exceeds the weight limit for LATCH in the van? I can't remember what the changes were....

Thanks!

Dillipop · May 6, 2014

Technically the latch limit in a 2004 Toyota is the limit imposed by the car seat manufacturer, as they defer to the restraint. Which would be either 40 or 48 lbs for a pre-2005 vehicle with the radian. However, all vehicles after 2013 have a 65lb combined weight limit of seat and kid. Even though Toyota didn't make their limit retroactive, I think most people would say to defer to the new limits when making a decision to use latch. Clear as mud, huh?

wavegal · May 6, 2014

Your seat limit is what you would go off of since Toyota for that model year refers to the seat. So like dillipop said 40-48lbs but the 65-CR does not apply.

Using the forward recline mode tends to help with the radian forward facing install in toyotas

christineka · May 6, 2014

Dillipop said:
However, all vehicles after 2013 have a 65lb combined weight limit of seat and kid.

This is incorrect. Only most of the vehicle manufacturers changed their latch limits. The across the board change was for car seats manufactured after the change. Not the vehicles! Toyota has not changed their latch limits. Toyota's latch limit still defers to the car seat, no matter which year the vehicle was made. For the 2004 sienna and the radian, the limit is 48 pounds of child.

knlrachel · May 6, 2014

Thanks! I am going to have one very happy five year old

I did have the seat on recline, but that position has the stiff buckle stalk and I could not get it to angle the right way to hold the seat. Sounds like we are good on the weight. Thanks!

Dillipop · May 6, 2014

christineka said:
This is incorrect. Only most of the vehicle manufacturers changed their latch limits. The across the board change was for car seats manufactured after the change. Not the vehicles! Toyota has not changed their latch limits. Toyota's latch limit still defers to the car seat, no matter which year the vehicle was made. For the 2004 sienna and the radian, the limit is 48 pounds of child.

Oops. So if I bought a 2014 toyota and still had a seat like the radian sl, I could still use it to the limits? Huh. What a cluster this new stuff is!

christineka · May 6, 2014

Dillipop said:
Oops. So if I bought a 2014 toyota and still had a seat like the radian sl, I could still use it to the limits? Huh. What a cluster this new stuff is!

Yeah. It's the seats that changed. And then a bunch of car manufacturers thought they'd be proactive and change their latch limits to match the new seats, except the old seats are good for another 6- almost 10 years. Gotta love how latch has made car seats "simpler".

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