Please note that I'm a longtime trained advocate who was a tech from 1997-2012. Now that I'm back to doing childcare, I don't have the time for the CEUs and checkups/installation tests required to remain a tech, but I keep informed.
If I do not get a new van today, there could be the rare occasion when I need to transport 6 kids in my 7-passenger minivan. One mile each way to a local preschool.
So I may need to put a ff harnessed seat in the front passenger seat if that ever happens. Of course tightly installed and with the vehicle seat pushed back as far as possible (with two rows of rf seats behind it, I may not be able to push it all the way- but the seats behind have the Graco ClickTight and Britax advocate, both of which can be more upright than 45 degrees. My infant is 7 months and has the head control for a more upright angle.)
Of course there is no tether anchor for the front seat. I have the Britax Frontier 90 and a Sunshine Kids Radian 65 (no, it's not expired yet- purchased in 2011). When the Radian was first released it was unusual in that it passed the 28-inch head excursion limit even without the tether, probably because the center of gravity is lower than other seats.
Does anyone know if this continued to be the case, at least through 2011? I'm thinking the Frontier is too heavy overall to even consider it. I know the manual says the tether is required too- but most manuals do nowadays, and so questions about atypical situations usually have to be asked directly of the mfr. Unless that's already been done! I have the NHTSA car seat instruction disc (somewhere around here...) to check too (in the first few years that was issued, I was one of the primary writers and information gatherers- so please again be assured I know best practice well.)
I know I can chase this stuff down by calling the mfr, but will have to argue my way past the first level- or more- of customer service reps. So I'm trying here first!
Thank you!
Lori
If I do not get a new van today, there could be the rare occasion when I need to transport 6 kids in my 7-passenger minivan. One mile each way to a local preschool.
So I may need to put a ff harnessed seat in the front passenger seat if that ever happens. Of course tightly installed and with the vehicle seat pushed back as far as possible (with two rows of rf seats behind it, I may not be able to push it all the way- but the seats behind have the Graco ClickTight and Britax advocate, both of which can be more upright than 45 degrees. My infant is 7 months and has the head control for a more upright angle.)
Of course there is no tether anchor for the front seat. I have the Britax Frontier 90 and a Sunshine Kids Radian 65 (no, it's not expired yet- purchased in 2011). When the Radian was first released it was unusual in that it passed the 28-inch head excursion limit even without the tether, probably because the center of gravity is lower than other seats.
Does anyone know if this continued to be the case, at least through 2011? I'm thinking the Frontier is too heavy overall to even consider it. I know the manual says the tether is required too- but most manuals do nowadays, and so questions about atypical situations usually have to be asked directly of the mfr. Unless that's already been done! I have the NHTSA car seat instruction disc (somewhere around here...) to check too (in the first few years that was issued, I was one of the primary writers and information gatherers- so please again be assured I know best practice well.)
I know I can chase this stuff down by calling the mfr, but will have to argue my way past the first level- or more- of customer service reps. So I'm trying here first!
Thank you!
Lori
