WhatAboutPuppy
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Who am I!?!
Here's my profile... I don't feel whole without all my stickers... sigh... I felt so safe with them, like everyone knew how to use me correctly with them.
Have you SEEN my lowest harness slots, there's no way this is safe!!!
Just think, if your child weighed 30 lbs and we were in a 30 mph crash, that's 900 lbs of pressure, right there!! That'd pull the straps right out! Check to make sure your harness is connected correctly!!
So the 6 year old little girl with almost exactly the same measurements as my DSS1 (look in siggy) was riding in this seat until last weekend!! Dad kept her in this seat because he had only lap belts in the back seat, he was aware that a lap belt was unsafe for her age!
My fiance was awesome, I was so nervous of telling his friend how unsafe his daughter was... so while I was putting DSS2 to bed I heard him talking to his friend, he talked about how much researched I'd done, how concerned I was, how I've signed up to become a certified technician and how I'd been in contact for quite some time about his daughter with a technician (Judi) and that I'd be talking to him soon.
So I brought it up by telling him I'd found a solution to making his lap belts safe for his daughter. I told him about the 86Y harness and how he'd have to install/drill into his car to install the tether. I showed him the website, the pictures. I gave him one of our spare HBB and informed him that the lap belt alone is safer than the front seat with a HBB. I told him about how seats expired, he had no clue! He asked why, cuz the plastic degrades, he said it made perfect sense! He asked for the info on getting the harness; which I'd already hunted down, made a phone call, found out the price, price of shipping, if it was instock, if it'd work for his car and situation. :thumbsup:
He left the car seat with us to destroy. She went home in lap belt only, HBB in the trunk, fiance hasn't talked to him but my guess is he's already got the harness... maybe even already installed.
Here's my profile... I don't feel whole without all my stickers... sigh... I felt so safe with them, like everyone knew how to use me correctly with them.
Have you SEEN my lowest harness slots, there's no way this is safe!!!
Just think, if your child weighed 30 lbs and we were in a 30 mph crash, that's 900 lbs of pressure, right there!! That'd pull the straps right out! Check to make sure your harness is connected correctly!!
So the 6 year old little girl with almost exactly the same measurements as my DSS1 (look in siggy) was riding in this seat until last weekend!! Dad kept her in this seat because he had only lap belts in the back seat, he was aware that a lap belt was unsafe for her age!
My fiance was awesome, I was so nervous of telling his friend how unsafe his daughter was... so while I was putting DSS2 to bed I heard him talking to his friend, he talked about how much researched I'd done, how concerned I was, how I've signed up to become a certified technician and how I'd been in contact for quite some time about his daughter with a technician (Judi) and that I'd be talking to him soon.
So I brought it up by telling him I'd found a solution to making his lap belts safe for his daughter. I told him about the 86Y harness and how he'd have to install/drill into his car to install the tether. I showed him the website, the pictures. I gave him one of our spare HBB and informed him that the lap belt alone is safer than the front seat with a HBB. I told him about how seats expired, he had no clue! He asked why, cuz the plastic degrades, he said it made perfect sense! He asked for the info on getting the harness; which I'd already hunted down, made a phone call, found out the price, price of shipping, if it was instock, if it'd work for his car and situation. :thumbsup:
He left the car seat with us to destroy. She went home in lap belt only, HBB in the trunk, fiance hasn't talked to him but my guess is he's already got the harness... maybe even already installed.