grumpybear
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Just curious as I've been reading a lot of techs mention that the parents are supposed to install the carseat themselves during a seat check.
I've had our seats checked 3x between 2 firestations in our area (2 different cities). The first time was for our infant/bucket seat. The last 2 was for our Radian.
The first two times I had them checked they just checked the stability of the installation (rock the seat and look for displacement) and pretty much sent me on my way after finding it acceptable (I did fill out some paperwork though).
The third time I had some questions regarding the slight tilt in carseat and the tech uninstalled it and re-installed it for me and sent me on my way.
I wonder how it is in other areas as our techs here seem to be pretty complacent about carseat checks.
Case in point was that when we had our bucket checked, they were all praises for how good the installation was only for me to find out a year later that we installed it all wrong as I was using center LATCH on a vehicle that did not allow for that.
Then the last time I had our Radian checked the installation was very shoddy (had another thread about this).
What do proper carseat checks look like?
I've had our seats checked 3x between 2 firestations in our area (2 different cities). The first time was for our infant/bucket seat. The last 2 was for our Radian.
The first two times I had them checked they just checked the stability of the installation (rock the seat and look for displacement) and pretty much sent me on my way after finding it acceptable (I did fill out some paperwork though).
The third time I had some questions regarding the slight tilt in carseat and the tech uninstalled it and re-installed it for me and sent me on my way.
I wonder how it is in other areas as our techs here seem to be pretty complacent about carseat checks.
Case in point was that when we had our bucket checked, they were all praises for how good the installation was only for me to find out a year later that we installed it all wrong as I was using center LATCH on a vehicle that did not allow for that.
Then the last time I had our Radian checked the installation was very shoddy (had another thread about this).
What do proper carseat checks look like?