News IIHS launches ratings of vehicle LATCH hardware

Admin · Jun 17, 2015

Only 3 vehicles of more than 100 evaluated have child restraint installation hardware that earns a good rating for ease of use.

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meljc · Jun 18, 2015

I notice that they ding ratings based on ceiling-mounted top tethers. That seems silly to me. Thoughts?

lgenne · Jun 18, 2015

Their criteria for "easy to find" tether anchors seem odd, too. All the tether anchors are "hard to find" on the 2015 Odyssey. Because they're on the lower 15% of the seat back. I'd call all 6 of them easy to find.

The lower anchors on the +1 "difficult to maneuver around," presumably because there are covers over them that have to be removed. Once the covers are off, they're possibly the easiest anchors to maneuver around ever.

For some reason, the lower anchors on the driver side captain's chair are "difficult to maneuver around" but the ones on the passenger side are easy to maneuver around. I can't tell that they're different at all. (On my 2013, anyway. I don't think they've changed it.)