seatbelt tensioners?! - to stop my wee girl banging her head
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Hi folks. I've just bought my first Porsche (a 996tt cab) and part of the reason the missus didn't blow a gasket was that I convinced her there was plenty of room in the back for our toddler and thus we could easily use the car for weekends away etc. Yesterday we went out for our first decent drive with our daughter in the back and discovered a major issue with the seat belts. As I understand it, 911 seatbelts are always loose and will tension up automatically in the event of certain types of crashes (as indicated in my owner's manual).
That's all very clever I'm sure, but when we were out yesterday I discovered this means my daughter shoots forward under braking and bangs her head against the back of the passenger seat - especially when she's asleep. Well you can imagine the earbashing I got from the missus
and I am well and truly in the doghouse until I find a solution.
Can anything be done to keep the rear belt taught all the time? Can the belt tensioner be adjusted? Can I buy a widget from Hafwits to clip on or something.
All thoughts welcome.
Thanks,
gixxer
That's all very clever I'm sure, but when we were out yesterday I discovered this means my daughter shoots forward under braking and bangs her head against the back of the passenger seat - especially when she's asleep. Well you can imagine the earbashing I got from the missus
and I am well and truly in the doghouse until I find a solution. Can anything be done to keep the rear belt taught all the time? Can the belt tensioner be adjusted? Can I buy a widget from Hafwits to clip on or something.
All thoughts welcome.
Thanks,
gixxer
pgm said:
you can get a £10 gadget from halfrauds for this, just look near the child seat area.
Personally I use it as a gauge - if my kid's heads hit the back of the seats, I'm using the brakes too much.
Cheers
Paul
Personally I use it as a gauge - if my kid's heads hit the back of the seats, I'm using the brakes too much.
Cheers
Paul
Thanks Paul. I'll look into it. Not sure what car you have but as mine is a Cab it means the back seats are more upright (due to the roof mechanism taking up space) and thus I found that she would bang her head at the slightest of breaking and each time I came to a stop - even when I crawled to a stop. Pretty poor therefore.
Cheers,
Gixxer
www.cg-lock.com/
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
Pheedbak said:
www.cg-lock.com/
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
CG-lock only tensions the section of the belt across your lap, not the diagonal across the chest...
polarexpress said:
Pheedbak said:
www.cg-lock.com/
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
CG-lock only tensions the section of the belt across your lap, not the diagonal across the chest...
better than a kick in the head tho ??!?!?!? or maybe a porker seat in the head
Pheedbak said:
polarexpress said:
Pheedbak said:
www.cg-lock.com/
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
these are something the lotus forum boys were using makes the lap belt tensioned afaik.
Phil
CG-lock only tensions the section of the belt across your lap, not the diagonal across the chest...
better than a kick in the head tho ??!?!?!? or maybe a porker seat in the head
Erm, not exactly. I think the problem is the nodding head syndrome when you want the diagonal to lock across the chest preventing the upper body falling forward. The locked lap section has little value in this instance...
gixxer1000 said:
pgm said:
you can get a £10 gadget from halfrauds for this, just look near the child seat area.
Personally I use it as a gauge - if my kid's heads hit the back of the seats, I'm using the brakes too much.
Cheers
Paul
Personally I use it as a gauge - if my kid's heads hit the back of the seats, I'm using the brakes too much.
Cheers
Paul
Thanks Paul. I'll look into it. Not sure what car you have but as mine is a Cab it means the back seats are more upright (due to the roof mechanism taking up space) and thus I found that she would bang her head at the slightest of breaking and each time I came to a stop - even when I crawled to a stop. Pretty poor therefore.
Cheers,
Gixxer
yes, mine is a coupe and my boys are 5 and 2. Its only really a problem when they are sleeping.
polarexpress said:
Erm, not exactly. I think the problem is the nodding head syndrome when you want the diagonal to lock across the chest preventing the upper body falling forward. The locked lap section has little value in this instance...
Spot-on polarexpress. It's the diagonal chest belt I need to have locked, otherwise she'll simply keep bashing her head against the back of the seat. Surely there must be a fix for this.
On my VW & Merc (2001 cars) if you pull the seat belt all the way out & then allow it to feed back in - it'll lock at the shoulder position & only ever tighten from then on (unless the clip is released). This is superb for holding children in place - not sure if your 996 has this but I only found out about these accidentally on my cars.
I have asked this question many times & have spent quite a bit of time trying to find an answer, with no joy..
I have a 996 coupe & a 3 year old lad who did the very same every time he fell asleep in the back, even on gental brakeing.
As I have said before I have found 2 approches to this problem, both work & If you do both they are held totally in place.
Firstly, I can not tell you enough how good this tip I got was but YOU MUST try removing the back section of the rear seats, it gives them more leg room & allows the child seat to recline into a more comfortable position. I know it sounds serious to do this to an expensive car, but it is a 2 allen key 5 minute job & it takes the same to put it back on. YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT A GO.
Secondly, I use a Porsche ZOOM seat with the sleep support, when he is buckeled in I just pull more belt through and loop it round the side of the head support the belt is not going anywhere, I do not use this any more since finding the above method.
You are going to have to get this fixed, as I started avoiding takeing the porsche until I found these solutions
I have a 996 coupe & a 3 year old lad who did the very same every time he fell asleep in the back, even on gental brakeing.
As I have said before I have found 2 approches to this problem, both work & If you do both they are held totally in place.
Firstly, I can not tell you enough how good this tip I got was but YOU MUST try removing the back section of the rear seats, it gives them more leg room & allows the child seat to recline into a more comfortable position. I know it sounds serious to do this to an expensive car, but it is a 2 allen key 5 minute job & it takes the same to put it back on. YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT A GO.
Secondly, I use a Porsche ZOOM seat with the sleep support, when he is buckeled in I just pull more belt through and loop it round the side of the head support the belt is not going anywhere, I do not use this any more since finding the above method.
You are going to have to get this fixed, as I started avoiding takeing the porsche until I found these solutions
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