Before I got the Frontier I was prepared to have a battle trying to get it installed. Especially since I needed to at first install it in a 1990 Corolla that only had a lapbelt in the center. I thought for sure that it would NOT install at all using the SBP.
But man was I surprised and actually shocked when it installed rock-solid in less than a minute in both the '90 Corolla and '02 Accord using the SBP. In the Corolla it was in the center with a lap belt only and in the Accord it is outboard using a lap/shoulder belt. I haven't even tried to install it using the LBP yet since it went in so easily with SBP and I've never installed any carseat using a LBP (even my Regent has installed fine in every car I've tried it in with SBP only). Am I an oddball or something? I just made sure the buckle stalk pulls up into the Frontier's belt path and then made sure to tighten the belt by pulling the excess through the slit in the cover to get out all the slack in the lap portion of the belt (like you would do if you were tightening it using LATCH). Is this what everyone else does? I can get a tight install without even twisting the buckle stalks down, but I ended up twisting it down about 1 1/2 turns in the Corolla and 2 turns down in the Accord just so it's flush with the seat back. And they're long belt stalks-- like 3" long each.
It just seems odd that I keep reading that people are getting inches of side to side movement using the SBP. It almost seems like my Frontier installed too easy using the SBP, but I swear it's in there with a rock-solid install and absolutely no side to side movement. Weird.
But man was I surprised and actually shocked when it installed rock-solid in less than a minute in both the '90 Corolla and '02 Accord using the SBP. In the Corolla it was in the center with a lap belt only and in the Accord it is outboard using a lap/shoulder belt. I haven't even tried to install it using the LBP yet since it went in so easily with SBP and I've never installed any carseat using a LBP (even my Regent has installed fine in every car I've tried it in with SBP only). Am I an oddball or something? I just made sure the buckle stalk pulls up into the Frontier's belt path and then made sure to tighten the belt by pulling the excess through the slit in the cover to get out all the slack in the lap portion of the belt (like you would do if you were tightening it using LATCH). Is this what everyone else does? I can get a tight install without even twisting the buckle stalks down, but I ended up twisting it down about 1 1/2 turns in the Corolla and 2 turns down in the Accord just so it's flush with the seat back. And they're long belt stalks-- like 3" long each.
It just seems odd that I keep reading that people are getting inches of side to side movement using the SBP. It almost seems like my Frontier installed too easy using the SBP, but I swear it's in there with a rock-solid install and absolutely no side to side movement. Weird.