Car seat safety is vital for protecting your child during travel, but knowing how to safely install a car seat and buckle up your child as he or she grows can be difficult. You may also use car seat covers to keep your child seat clean and dry.
Let’s assume you've chosen the best seat for your child's age and size and that, before installing the child safety seat, you saw feature installation tips on our site or counseled with a child passenger safety professional at a car seat check. You've additionally surveyed the safety guideline manual for both your vehicle and the child safety seat, and now have your rear-facing confronting or forward-facing child safety seat with a saddle installed into your vehicle. Make sure you have avoided the most common and possibly risky installation mistakes by following the check list below.
If you experience any of these common mistakes, it’s important to correct them by alluding over to the manuals, features or counseling with an expert at a car seat check. If all else fails, look for additional help.
- Tightness of the installation
A properly installed child safety seat should not be able to move more than 1 inch in any direction. Grasp the seat at or close to the belt and verify if there is less than 1 inch of movement.
- Examine the belt path
Convertible safety seats that move from rear-forward-facing have various openings for directing the seat belt during installation. Check the manual for your child safety seat to verify the seat belt is routed appropriately focused around the direction of the installation.
- Position of the shoulder straps
While the chest clip should always be at armpit level, for rear-facing seats, the shoulder straps must be threaded through slots that are at or underneath your child's shoulders. For forward-facing seats, the shoulder straps ought to be at or over your child's shoulders.
- Pinch test
Test the snugness by trying to pinch additional material at the top of your child's shoulders when the harness is buckled. If you can pinch additional webbing, the harness is too loose. Make sure to tighten and re-check.
- Utilize the top tether
You can enhance the safety of your child safety seat by utilizing its top tether strap spotted at the top of the seat. Check your car seat and manuals for fitting use of the tether for your seat. If the use of the tie is suitable, tightly connect the seat's top tether strap to the right anchor point in the vehicle and tighten.
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