Marathons fit ff and rf in the back seat
I know, they fit like a dream. But I need a new seat for dd, ideally to fit her from ages 5 to 8. A booster, even with a harness, is not my first choice.
Marathons fit ff and rf in the back seat
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I know, they fit like a dream. But I need a new seat for dd, ideally to fit her from ages 5 to 8. A booster, even with a harness, is not my first choice.
I've successfully installed a Regent in the 2nd and 3rd rows of my Mazda 5, if that's a seat you're looking into.
With the recline bar?
Oh, Namegirl, do you HATE me?? Now I have to go play with it yet again! You got a Regent in the third row WITH the recline bar?? HOW??? I get way, way too much front-to-back movement. Is your Regent super-reclined or something? I don't think I've tried that yet...
LOL. I had access to a friend's Regent one afternoon and was able to install it in the 3rd row. Any child would probably need the 2nd row seat moved up quite a bit to get appropriate leg room.
Let's see if I can remember...it definitely had the recline bar. We put the bar in just by hand--no pounding it in with a hammer or anything. First I pushed against the edge of the seat with my knees to push it back into the seatback. Then, sort of holding it in that position, I climbed on top of it to push it downward into the seat . I hope I'm explaining that right. First pushing it back away from me and then pushing it down. Then it took a lot of "feeding" with the seat belt (while still kneeling on it). It was one of those centimeter-by-centimeter installs where you have to pull on the seat belt in a lot of different places to get it tight.
And it worked! I turned the headrest around and tethered it and it was a pretty great install.
UPDATE!
EZ-On has been working with us the past couple of months, and has created a custom 86Y harness that does not require installing the heavy-duty tether anchors. It works by using the lower seat belt anchors instead of a tether anchor. Instead of having one hook in the back, it splits and has two heavy-duty anchors that attach to seat belt anchors on either side.
I wonder if they may make this solution more generally available? It would encourage me to consider this product more seriously.... I have thought about using the 86Y in the backseat center of our smaller car (older Corolla), which has a lap belt only. The existing tether anchor position could probably be drilled out to accomodate the heavier anchor. However, in this particular vehicle the tether anchor position is all the way at the back of the station wagon cargo area, so a strap attached to the tether anchor runs diagonally down and back right through the cargo area -- very inconvenient. If I could attach to seat belt anchors, that would be more workable. I'll have to see if I can open your photo, to see how this modified setup works....
ETA: where is the photo? I tried opening the link that I saw when I quoted your message, but Photobucket says the page is not found? It's also not showing up in-line in your message... not sure if you changed something since you posted, or if the problem is at my end...
The woman I was working with seemed surprised to find that I could access the seat belt anchors so easily.
hmm... in most cars i've had that have a fold-down rear seat, the seatbelt anchors were quite easy to access! the only i've had in which the anchors were not plainly accessible were sedans that didn't have fold-down rear seats.
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