Car seat in extended cab
#16
Ok Cool I think my wife and I are going to one of the R'Us stores on thursday. I hope they will let us test them. I will keep you up to date with what we find out.
#17
The first time I went into Baby's R US... I was SHOCKED at all the ridiculous stuff they sell under the guise of safety! Safety corners for tables, a skirt for your stove, some kind a rolling clicker to put on doors so that you don't open the door up on a kid. You wonder how the hell Society lived before **** like that came into existence. I know you said you're a millennial but don't buy into all that stuff...literally!
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#19
Well we went to babies are us last night. It fits. It is tight but it fits.
By the way. How can you deal with 2wd in Norther IL??? I couldn't get anywhere without 4X4 here in PA in the winter. Just a week or two I was driving through 1 foot deep snow coming home from work.
By the way. How can you deal with 2wd in Norther IL??? I couldn't get anywhere without 4X4 here in PA in the winter. Just a week or two I was driving through 1 foot deep snow coming home from work.
#20
The first time I went into Baby's R US... I was SHOCKED at all the ridiculous stuff they sell under the guise of safety! Safety corners for tables, a skirt for your stove, some kind a rolling clicker to put on doors so that you don't open the door up on a kid. You wonder how the hell Society lived before **** like that came into existence. I know you said you're a millennial but don't buy into all that stuff...literally!
#21
Laws.... While many of them are born of tragedy - for the most part, they are guidelines if you need to look something up. If you ask "What are the safest child seat configurations possible?", there's a law to be found. Will you get pulled over for having a car seat that's not quite legal? I've never heard of it. If, heaven forbid, there is an incident related to the car seat - that's the only time one might be liable in a poor choice of car seats.
I have first-hand knowledge (family member in a situation) that last scenario doesn't typically invite scrutiny from law enforcement. A decent car seat in a reasonable configuration is considered "due diligence", but a visit to the law pamphlet is still in order. You want your family safe, but not in a bubble.
I've had no issue with getting my grandchildren's car seats in the extended cab... and I ride the seat all the way back. I just tilt my backrest forward until I can steer with my teeth. I'm kidding about that last part... I can just touch the wheel with my nose.
I have first-hand knowledge (family member in a situation) that last scenario doesn't typically invite scrutiny from law enforcement. A decent car seat in a reasonable configuration is considered "due diligence", but a visit to the law pamphlet is still in order. You want your family safe, but not in a bubble.
I've had no issue with getting my grandchildren's car seats in the extended cab... and I ride the seat all the way back. I just tilt my backrest forward until I can steer with my teeth. I'm kidding about that last part... I can just touch the wheel with my nose.
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Unfortunately the letter of the law is what any zealous prosecuting attorney will follow. The car seat we have for our grandson requires the use of the tether when mounted in the forward facing position. Even though I can disable the pass air bag, the shape of the front seat prevents the tether from properly holding the seat in position, and the backseat is a non-starter. The built-in hooks and the lapbelt pass through the same location on the carseat, so that's irrelevant. Generally, I don't get stopped while driving ever, but if I were stopped for anything, and the officer had any knowledge of the older extended cab trucks, he'd probably have a good idea just peering thru the window that the seat wasn't properly installed. And so my grandson doesn't ride in my truck at all.
Now I know I can get it in the TR6, but my family will never believe that little thing is safe for anybody.
Now I know I can get it in the TR6, but my family will never believe that little thing is safe for anybody.
#24
Older vehicles are typically grandfathered in, or we could never drive a '57 Chevy without breaking the law. It would be weird if a cop pulled somebody over because they were driving with a child in a car seat in a 1964 Mustang... because it has no tether strap. At least they won't have to worry about an air bag on the passenger side.
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The 57 Chevy and it's OE equipment are grandfathered, but car seats and child safety laws are what they are. It is absolutely illegal to put a child in a completely stock 57 Chevy, as it did not have seat belts, and there's no way to properly install the required car seat. And you can get hammered for it. I was stopped once because a cop thought I had a kid in my 49 Chevy.
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I don't know how "official" this is, but this site says that all forward facing car seats require the tether. And since it implies that the tether anchors can be retrofitted, I would think if you mounted any tether anchor in your truck, you'd be fine. The site says all cars since MY1999 have them, my e99 truck doesn't have tether anchors anywhere. I know the newer trucks do, can anyone verify they existed in any of the versions of our body style trucks? If so then that anchor system could presumably fit into our trucks.