April
Well-known member
Okay, so I basically just need someone to confirm that I'm telling this friend the right thing to do. A friend of mine was over tonight and parked behind me, so I had to take her van to the store. Its a 1990 Plymouth Voyager, lap belts only in all rear seating positions. Her 5 year old DS was not with her, but his booster was in the middle row driver's side outboard seat......A Cosco Explorer I shield booster. 
I came back and quickly ran down to the computer and looked it up in the pictorial archive, and sure enough it is exact same as the one in the picture, discontinued in 1996.
I talked with her and told her that a) his seat is expired, b) a shield booster is far from the safest, and c) she needs to get him in a proper seat asap. She is a single mom on welfare who just got her first job and is 6 months clean off drugs. She's really trying to get her life together and obviously funds and very very limited. She was very receptive and I told her that ideally he should be harnessed, but she just can't afford to buy him a hwh seat anytime soon.
She mentioned that she has his old seat, sounds like a 3 in 1. I told her that I would check with you guys first, but that I think her best option at this point is to put him in the 3 in 1 in the front passenger seat. I'm 99% sure that there's no airbag, but maybe someone can confirm. The front passenger seat is stationary, so she can't move it back, but its quite far back from the dash as it is. I sat in the seat (without the 3 in 1 obviously) and with my arms fully extended in front of me I was about 3 or 4 inches away from being able to touch the dash. I checked the seatbelt and it is an ELR retractor.
She said that once I double checked that that was the right thing to do, she'd put him up there in the 3 in 1. She said that the lap belt fits him pretty good in booster mode in the seat. She's going to save up and get a highback Turbobooster as soon as she can.
Any input on this situation is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I came back and quickly ran down to the computer and looked it up in the pictorial archive, and sure enough it is exact same as the one in the picture, discontinued in 1996.I talked with her and told her that a) his seat is expired, b) a shield booster is far from the safest, and c) she needs to get him in a proper seat asap. She is a single mom on welfare who just got her first job and is 6 months clean off drugs. She's really trying to get her life together and obviously funds and very very limited. She was very receptive and I told her that ideally he should be harnessed, but she just can't afford to buy him a hwh seat anytime soon.
She mentioned that she has his old seat, sounds like a 3 in 1. I told her that I would check with you guys first, but that I think her best option at this point is to put him in the 3 in 1 in the front passenger seat. I'm 99% sure that there's no airbag, but maybe someone can confirm. The front passenger seat is stationary, so she can't move it back, but its quite far back from the dash as it is. I sat in the seat (without the 3 in 1 obviously) and with my arms fully extended in front of me I was about 3 or 4 inches away from being able to touch the dash. I checked the seatbelt and it is an ELR retractor.
She said that once I double checked that that was the right thing to do, she'd put him up there in the 3 in 1. She said that the lap belt fits him pretty good in booster mode in the seat. She's going to save up and get a highback Turbobooster as soon as she can.
Any input on this situation is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
