Lexus LS and carseat question...

ccjones · Dec 14, 2006

I couldn't decide which forum to post this, so please move it to a more appropriate forum if necessary. One of my girlfriends who lives close to my work picked me up today and we went out to lunch. Her DH recently bought her a 2007 Lexus LS 460 L as an early Christmas gift.

She has her DD's MA installed FF with LATCH in the rear-passenger outboard position. The two rear seats in the LS have a "recliner" function built in to them, so my friend had the footrest part out in front of the MA. I asked her what that was all about, and said she put the footrest part of the seat out so her DD has a place to rest her feet so they aren't dangling. I apologize for not doing a better job explaining the footrest, I guess it's something you just have to see in person or on the Lexus webpage! LOL

Anyway, is there anything inherently unsafe in doing this? I didn't want to say anything to her about it until I checked here first.

joolsplus3 · Dec 14, 2006

Oooh, sounds luxurious, lol. I'm sure it's fine, or the manual would say something about how it's not ok to use it while there's a carseat installed? As long as the seat is installed properly otherwise, I can't imagine it'd be a problem (and is certainly something that's not on the test bench at any car seat facility, so I wonder if they would know at all...?).

I'd check the manual, at any rate.

ccjones · Dec 14, 2006

Thanks Jools, she said that she read the carseat/seatbelt chapter of the manual, as well as the chapter that explains how the rear-seat and footrest mechanisms work and neither chapter mentioned anything about keeping the footrest either up or down with a carseat installed.

ETA: Yes, it's a very luxurious car. I love my girlfriend dearly, but I'll never understand owning a vehicle that costs as much as some people's mortgages!