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panzona
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Hello everybody,
I am new here and looking for help/advice.
I live in Germany and have an almost 2 years-old son.
I need to change his car seat and of course (would I be here otherwise? ;-) ) want a RF one.
After many many researches (also browsing this board) I realized that there’s only one possible choice for me here in Germany, which is the BeSafe Combi X1, because all the other RF seats sold here (Britax and Recaro) are surely 0-18kg seats, but in the manual they state you should turn the child FF with 13 kg…
NO shop here would have the HTS in stock – they say it’s too expensive, Germans don’t want RF, and so on and so forth… but even more, I say, if it’s expensive I want to “touch” it and see it before I buy it! Anyway.
I contacted the (only!) HTS BeSafe dealer who was kind enough to give me an appointment to show me the seat and try it on my car (luckily she was staff training in a shop “only” 45 km away from where I live, otherwise their office would have been 500 km away…)
Here is my question (finally, you’d say!)
The seat looks really nice and comfy (though a little elaborate – not complicated – to install), but I have a problem with its angle after installed: the 3rd “tilted position” gives my a son a very comfortable sitting position, but it’s supposed to be the sleeping position! So no more ‘back leaning’ possible… The other 2 tilts are unusable, because the seat ‘leans’ too much towards the car’s rear seat’s back. This is due to the shape of the car’s rear seat, which have the sitting part (is it called the cushion?) leaning (to the passengers’ lap). I drive an “old” Opel Zafira (year 2001) but I’ve found the same problem with all the cars I’ve had, my husband’s, my parent’s and so on (even with my current seat): my husband (he’s in the car industry) says that rear seats HAVE to be like this for comfort reasons and for safety reasons (what with the passenger not being too easily “projected” out of the seat). Some cars might have a smaller ‘angle’, but no seat can be a 90° L shaped seat (am I somewhat clear???)
I wonder: anyone with the same problem? How could you solve it?
Is it safe if I place something under the child’s seat to make the seat’s cushion horizontal (I was thinking of one of those firm “triangle” pillows that are used to straighten the back while sitting on chairs)? Maybe fixing it to the car’s seat with lots of velcro?
I am torn… (and ask myself, too: if rear seats are more or less all like this, why children’s seats manifacturers don’t build tha base accordingly? so not to have this tilting problem?)
I’ve attached a (terrible!) drawing because I didn’t know if my English (and the issue itself) was clear enough… The angles in the drawing are of course exaggerated, I just wanted to make clear the issue.
I have also started to consider to have a seat shipped from Sweden, so I’d have a RF till 25 kg (55 lb or so), but this concerns me even more: what if it “tilts” even more? I surely can’t return it if I have it shipped…
Please, any advice will be much appreciated.
TIA!
I am new here and looking for help/advice.
I live in Germany and have an almost 2 years-old son.
I need to change his car seat and of course (would I be here otherwise? ;-) ) want a RF one.
After many many researches (also browsing this board) I realized that there’s only one possible choice for me here in Germany, which is the BeSafe Combi X1, because all the other RF seats sold here (Britax and Recaro) are surely 0-18kg seats, but in the manual they state you should turn the child FF with 13 kg…
NO shop here would have the HTS in stock – they say it’s too expensive, Germans don’t want RF, and so on and so forth… but even more, I say, if it’s expensive I want to “touch” it and see it before I buy it! Anyway.
I contacted the (only!) HTS BeSafe dealer who was kind enough to give me an appointment to show me the seat and try it on my car (luckily she was staff training in a shop “only” 45 km away from where I live, otherwise their office would have been 500 km away…)
Here is my question (finally, you’d say!)
The seat looks really nice and comfy (though a little elaborate – not complicated – to install), but I have a problem with its angle after installed: the 3rd “tilted position” gives my a son a very comfortable sitting position, but it’s supposed to be the sleeping position! So no more ‘back leaning’ possible… The other 2 tilts are unusable, because the seat ‘leans’ too much towards the car’s rear seat’s back. This is due to the shape of the car’s rear seat, which have the sitting part (is it called the cushion?) leaning (to the passengers’ lap). I drive an “old” Opel Zafira (year 2001) but I’ve found the same problem with all the cars I’ve had, my husband’s, my parent’s and so on (even with my current seat): my husband (he’s in the car industry) says that rear seats HAVE to be like this for comfort reasons and for safety reasons (what with the passenger not being too easily “projected” out of the seat). Some cars might have a smaller ‘angle’, but no seat can be a 90° L shaped seat (am I somewhat clear???)
I wonder: anyone with the same problem? How could you solve it?
Is it safe if I place something under the child’s seat to make the seat’s cushion horizontal (I was thinking of one of those firm “triangle” pillows that are used to straighten the back while sitting on chairs)? Maybe fixing it to the car’s seat with lots of velcro?
I am torn… (and ask myself, too: if rear seats are more or less all like this, why children’s seats manifacturers don’t build tha base accordingly? so not to have this tilting problem?)
I’ve attached a (terrible!) drawing because I didn’t know if my English (and the issue itself) was clear enough… The angles in the drawing are of course exaggerated, I just wanted to make clear the issue.
I have also started to consider to have a seat shipped from Sweden, so I’d have a RF till 25 kg (55 lb or so), but this concerns me even more: what if it “tilts” even more? I surely can’t return it if I have it shipped…
Please, any advice will be much appreciated.
TIA!
) so I don't see bigger troubles for the future (outgrowing too soon etc.). I have a problem, though, browsing the Swedish site of Britax, I confess, even with my linguistic background, I can't make out that much from the text... 
