Hello everyone! Scatterbunny sent me here to ask some questions. This forum is wonderful!
We have a 2003 Honda Element and this morning we installed my daughter's Marathon, rear facing. I got the Marathon installed with LATCH just fine, but I'm having problems figuring out the tether. My car has a tether anchor in the back ceiling, by the back window. According to the Marathon instruction manual I can use the tether rear-facing, but the manual isn't really clear about what exactly to do. Here's how it's currently set up:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/raitch/mytether.jpg
It just seems wrong to me. It's nice and tight, but I have a hard time getting her in the seat because the straps are in the way, and when I tried putting her in, she started playing with the tether straps.
No, I haven't driven with her in it yet.
Oh... and reading the Element manual I noticed it said I should take off the headrest in her seat. Really? The Marathon manual didn't mention it at all.
Thanks in advance!
We have a 2003 Honda Element and this morning we installed my daughter's Marathon, rear facing. I got the Marathon installed with LATCH just fine, but I'm having problems figuring out the tether. My car has a tether anchor in the back ceiling, by the back window. According to the Marathon instruction manual I can use the tether rear-facing, but the manual isn't really clear about what exactly to do. Here's how it's currently set up:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/raitch/mytether.jpg
It just seems wrong to me. It's nice and tight, but I have a hard time getting her in the seat because the straps are in the way, and when I tried putting her in, she started playing with the tether straps.
No, I haven't driven with her in it yet.
Oh... and reading the Element manual I noticed it said I should take off the headrest in her seat. Really? The Marathon manual didn't mention it at all.
Thanks in advance!