pbandjenny
CPS Technician
background: my child is 37 inches, 34 ish lbs, 14 inch torso, 27 months....grew out of his britax boulevard 70 by height rear facing and so I'm flipping him. Yes, I would like to keep him rf (it's killing me not to) but I don't have the option to buy another seat right now. My birthday is in 2 weeks and I *might* get some money from family and then I can see but that is not the point of this post.
I went out to install my seat forward facing and I'm having a very hard time with it. I'm using the lap/shoulder belt b/c of my son's weight. (this whole LATCH weight w/ the seat weight all concerns me).
Anyway...
my first issue is my &%$# seat belt - it has this crazy LOOP on it which is preventing it from going any further through the belt path. (When dh comes home, I might be able to have one of us push the seat down and another one of us pull the belt tighter to get it up and over this part....but seriously, has anyone ever seen this? I even looked in my car manual and there is not a word about it.
My 2nd issue is this..... b/c the base of this seat is so high, it's pulling the seat belt webbing down once buckled in, making it sort of bunch up and I CANNOT get the lock off to clip shut. It's like the webbing is too low. Does that make sense? Again, maybe w/ dh here I can have him push the seat down w/ more force, loosening the webbing enough to bring it up higher......SIGH. Someone....help!
http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx206/mypbandj/photo2.jpg
I went out to install my seat forward facing and I'm having a very hard time with it. I'm using the lap/shoulder belt b/c of my son's weight. (this whole LATCH weight w/ the seat weight all concerns me).
Anyway...
my first issue is my &%$# seat belt - it has this crazy LOOP on it which is preventing it from going any further through the belt path. (When dh comes home, I might be able to have one of us push the seat down and another one of us pull the belt tighter to get it up and over this part....but seriously, has anyone ever seen this? I even looked in my car manual and there is not a word about it.
My 2nd issue is this..... b/c the base of this seat is so high, it's pulling the seat belt webbing down once buckled in, making it sort of bunch up and I CANNOT get the lock off to clip shut. It's like the webbing is too low. Does that make sense? Again, maybe w/ dh here I can have him push the seat down w/ more force, loosening the webbing enough to bring it up higher......SIGH. Someone....help!
http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx206/mypbandj/photo2.jpg