Has anybody else experienced frustrations with the ratchet system. We have a baby seat (rear facing, young baby not a fixed unit) that involves moving the seat belt around quite a lot to fit each time you put the baby in the car. Once the ratchet system locks, you don't have any flexibility to move it unitl you realease it and start again. This can take 2/3 times every time you put the baby in the car - this is driving my wife mad.

Obviously a good idea large parcles/boxes on leather seats but not practical for those of us with baby seats. Any ideas, apparently it cannot be turned off.

This is not the same as the normal locking mechansism that operates in a emergency situation.[/b]

Most good baby seats have a base that you can permanently lock/belt into the car and then you just snap the seat in an out each time you want to take the baby somewhere, we had two bases - one for each of the cars and just one seat/carrier.

I find the ratcheting mechanism extremely helpful (most all cars have this), in the days before, you had to use these little clips and you would spend hours futzing to get a seat in there tight.

Remember, you can never have a baby seat too tight, this is the most valuable thing you will ever carry. A non secured 8 pound baby in a 65mph crash can be like a ballistic missile in the car, strap him/her in well.

Good Luck 

Howard wrote:

Has anybody else experienced frustrations with the ratchet system. We have a baby seat (rear facing, young baby not a fixed unit) that involves moving the seat belt around quite a lot to fit each time you put the baby in the car. Once the ratchet system locks, you don't have any flexibility to move it unitl you realease it and start again. This can take 2/3 times every time you put the baby in the car - this is driving my wife mad.

Obviously a good idea large parcles/boxes on leather seats but not practical for those of us with baby seats. Any ideas, apparently it cannot be turned off.

This is not the same as the normal locking mechansism that operates in a emergency situation.[/b]

I had the same problem - there is a knack of fitting a seat easily. The golden rule is not to pull more belt than you need to buckle the belt, then you are free to pull out the remaining belt. I fould this difficult and resorted to pulling the whole seatbelt out, buckling the buckle anf then putting the remaining belt around the back of the seat. One tip with this is that once the buckle is fitted twist the child seat to get the seatbelt aroud the back.

I have now just bought an isofix system for my daughter and these are fantastic. GOOD LUCK. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Will try that approach tomorrow! Thanks.

hello

strange this subject should come up but our baby is due in febuary and when we went shopping for seats we found this ratcheting to be a big problem, so we ordered a britax isofix system which should be ok

Neil 2010 RRS TDV8 Overfinch GTS

For everyone in the US--------

ISOFIT/ISOFIX is also known as LATCH
(Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children). 

We used Isofix for our son in our previous Audis - the best thing we ever bought ( baby wise that is ) worth every penny . Clicks into car - thats it fitted - fantastic. They're more secure , less fiddly & in my opinion having seen many other options & systems in use - look more comfortable for the llittle person in them........ now thats got to be a winner  
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MDP wrote:

We used Isofix for our son in our previous Audis - the best thing we ever bought ( baby wise that is ) worth every penny . Clicks into car - thats it fitted - fantastic. They're more secure , less fiddly & in my opinion having seen many other options & systems in use - look more comfortable for the llittle person in them........ now thats got to be a winner

agree 100% 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
2009 Alaska TDV8 - Gone and much missed.



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Runner Up - 2009 �Just Doing What It�s Designed To Do� Award


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