Seat belts and baby seats

[mhibbins]

Does anyone take a child set in their S? I tried to fit our toodler (rear facing seat) in my s3 today and found the belt too short by miles. Has anyone tried fitting a forward facing seat - is the belt long enough for those? If not has anyone fitted a longer passenger belt to cope?

Thanks,

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Mark

[tvradict]

Don't take my word on this, but if i remember rightly from the last time my dad had a sprog running around. I think he bought some kind of strap that goes round the back of the rear facing seat and connect to the seat belt! Seat belt plugged in first, place baby seat and attach straps! No idea how secure it is! Thinking about it now doesn't sound too safe, but it may help! Think he got it Halfords! Hope that is some assisstance.

Cheers
Stuart.

P.S. He didn't put the seat in an S, but the principle is the same!

Edited by tvradict on Friday 21st December 21:06

[mhibbins]

That sounds ok actually. Normally the diagonal of the belt goes over the top of the seat and the lap goes around the back. The diagonal does fit over the top and if the extension belt goes around the back it should be fine. I'll check it out at halfords.

Thanks for the tip.

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Mark

[dern]

Resurrecting a pretty old thread I started but this may be useful to someone. My daughter is now 14 months old and went for her first ride in the s3 today. The answer to the question is that rear facing seats do not fit in as the belts are too short but our forward facing seat does fit in... however, the length of the female bit of the belt may foul on some seats so test them before buying.

Difficult to say what she thought of the experience but judging by the amount of pointing and chattering going on and the absence of any crying I'd say on balance she thought it was fun. She got a bit grumpy on the run up the road to home though as the less than compliant car has me wincing a bit on the bumps and Niamh didn't seem too impressed either. I don't think I'd want to do much more than 60 though as I'd be a bit concerned as to the affect the noise would have on her.

Regards,

Mark