How do you keep a toddler from opening seat belt latches? I have a grandson (2.5yrs) that opens seat belt and car seats at will. Very disconcerting when you are driving alone and he climbs up front with you! Any ideas beside stapling him to the seat? How do you keep a toddler from opening seat belt latches? I have a grandson (2.5yrs) that opens seat belt and car seats at will. Very disconcerting when you are driving alone and he climbs up front... » Read More How do you keep a toddler from opening seat belt latches? I have a grandson (2.5yrs) that opens seat belt and car seats at will. Very disconcerting when you are driving alone and he climbs up front with you! Any ideas beside stapling him to the seat? « Show Less
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It's been at least a year since you posted this question, so I hope you've solved the problem by now. My parents had the same fight with me and my brother when we were young and solved it by slamming on the breaks when they saw our seat belts were off (obviously, they made sure the road conditions were safe for this!). I tumbled to the front of our van and my brother hit a cabinet. Then we got yelled at and (probably) spanked. We were unharmed, but very terrified by the experience and NEVER took our seatbelt off again. It's not a solution I can recommend, but it worked on me.
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If you still have the old seat, it maybe a good idea to continue its use until he is 3 and you can communicate better with him... By three they understand not everything is for play. If you don't have the old seat, try using a regular man's belt as added security,
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Stephanie that is false. You have to check your car manual for if it allows latching in the middle seat. If not seat belt install only. LATCH is all depending on if the actual car make/model allow it. Also new laws do not allow latching of a combined weight of car seat and child over 65 pounds.
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Agreed with previous reponses--I would feel very secure using this seat in an older vehicle. The back/top tether is only "required" when using the seat with children over 65 lbs. Even with the latch option, I prefer using the seatbelt as it is easy to install/uninstall.
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I will be honest with you. When I bought these two jeeps for my grandsons, ages3 and then4 I was not concerned with the seat belts or radio. There is a fake radio and there're are not any seat belts. My grandsons have been riding them for about 4 months now and there are not any problems without the seat belts.
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the vehicle has to have LATCH. You have to have the side hooks and the hook on the back of your seat to make this carseat work. The type of seatbelt you have does not matter, the seat only connects to the LATCH hooks-there is no other way to install.
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no latching system. It's booster so the seat belt attaches the seat to car.
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I think it depends on the size of the car seat and also the size of your older child. I find that we have plenty of room with ours (although our 2 year old is small), and my 2 year old loves being able to chat to the baby, although she has to lean forward a fair bit to do it. We have a fairly large car seat and we haven't found this to be a problem.
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You can use the car seat with a seat belt. In this respect it can be used as a high back booster. The back does not detach to make it into a backless booster. Be sure to read the owner's manual for specific information about securing your child into this seat using just a seat belt.
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The weight is a minimum of 40 lbs. What I would personally be more concerned about is the tot being fidgety and getting OUT of the belt. I started mine when my daughter was 3.5, and we had to constantly be on top of her about sitting back, keeping her feet down, not stretching the seatbelt out. I would personally wait, and make sure that the child is old enough to sit still with out being told every ten minutes, otherwise you would be having to sit directly next to him/her. The size is great for us, we have it smooshed in between a baby seat and a booster in the back seat of a PRIUS, but it might be unstable for such a little one with nothing on one or both sides. The weight is a minimum of 40 lbs. What I would personally be more concerned about is the tot being fidgety and getting OUT of the belt. I started mine when my daughter was 3.5, and we had to constantly be on top of her about sitting back, keeping her feet down, not stretching the seatbelt out. I would personally wait, and make sure that the child is old enough to sit still with out being told every ten minutes, otherwise you would be having to sit directly next to him/her. The size is great for us, we have it smooshed in between a baby seat and a booster in the back seat of a... » Read More The weight is a minimum of 40 lbs. What I would personally be more concerned about is the tot being fidgety and getting OUT of the belt. I started mine when my daughter was 3.5, and we had to constantly be on top of her about sitting back, keeping her feet down, not stretching the seatbelt out. I would personally wait, and make sure that the child is old enough to sit still with out being told every ten minutes, otherwise you would be having to sit directly next to him/her. The size is great for us, we have it smooshed in between a baby seat and a booster in the back seat of a PRIUS, but it might be unstable for such a little one with nothing on one or both sides. « Show Less
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You are supposed to have a seatbelt lock (I'm not sure of the technical name but it kind of looks like an H with hooks on the insides) for vehicles without the latch system. When we bought the original car seat it had one but when we bought this to have an extra base, it did not come with it. Luckily a friend had one and they didn't need it lock.
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You can use the seatbelt. Most cars LATCH systems are only supported until 40 pounds. Love this carseat!
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This model has two latches to connect the booster seat to the vehicle anchors (if you car has them, my wife's infiniti doesn't have vehicle anchor, but my chevy silverado does). The latches just keep the booster seat from falling off of the vehicle seat. They don't have tighteners to keep it up against the vehicle seat. The booster seat uses the vehicles seat belts to hold the child in. This is our third Recaro booster seat. Our original ones don't have the latches to hold the booster seat, just stays in place when belting in the child.
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There is a latch in the front that you pull and push back on the top. At some point you will also need to know how to adjust the straps and there are great directions on the side of the car seat. Hope this helped. I had to go back to the store to have them show me how to decline it.
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A 2 year old still needs to be in a harness. Just in case you are interested, we use the Graco Nautilus for our 2 and 5 year old kids. For the 2 year old you use it with the harness, and the 5 yr old uses it as a high back booster with seatbelt. Actually we didn't remove the harness system until our oldest turned 5 because he still fit correctly (according to the manual guidelines) and comfortably and could buckle the harness system by himself.
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Yes, you don't use the LATCH at all, you just run the seat belt (both shoulder and lap sections) through the locking mechanism under the car seat seat.
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It does not need latch. It has slots for seat-belts. I have it both ways in my van. One car-seat is latched in, the other is seat-belt. But, I feel more confident with the latched one though.
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I think it woukd be awfully diffucult for a child to undo. We've had ours for several months & the latch is slightly more worn in (thus easier to undo) but there's no way my 2 yr old could pull it apart unless i didnt snap it in all the way.