RE: Anchoring child safety seat in rear seat of Scirocco

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

It may be different in Canada, but I've never seen such a bar across the
back seat of a Scirocco here in the US. The back of the seat just goes from
fiberboard on the rear to vinyl on the front. I don't know of where you
might mount that tether...perhaps it could be bolted to the rear shock
towers somehow? Otherwise your only options would be to extend the tether
all the way to the tail lights (possibly not within code?) or to bolt it to
the floor.

Could you perhaps make a complete loop around the seatback with the tether,
then fasten it to itself? Sort of like putting a winch cable from a truck
around a tree. Just an idea...

Let us know how you solve this. I don't have kids, but hopefully my Scirocco
will still be around when I do!

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of drew
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:05 PM
> To: 'Scirocco List'
> Cc: Wm. Josiah Erikson
> Subject: Re: Anchoring child safety seat in rear seat of Scirocco
>
>
>
> In Canada child seats for children over a certain weight & height (I
> forget the numbers but I think the weight is about 20 pounds)
> are required
> by law to be anchored with a tether from the rear of the seat
> to a fixed
> point on the car - newer cars of course come with provisions for this
> anchor point in the rear hat shelf or in the case of
> hatchbacks via the
> bar that extends across the top of the back seat.
>
> I guess I didn't make it clear in my original posting, but it
> is this rear
> tether that I am most concerned with (although the tether IS
> long enough
> to reach, I would rather avoid drilling a hole to mount the
> tether bolt in
> the floor of the trunk).
>
> It is nice to know that I'm not the only person out there
> trying to keep
> the family in the Scirocco... :)
>
> Drew
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>
> > Well, I had good luck just strapping  a carseat in like
> normal... on the
> > passenger's side, behind the passenger's seat. Sometimes I
> had to put the
> > front seat forward a bit to make room for my daughter's
> feet, but it worked
> > fine. I currently drive an '84 GTI and carry my daughter
> around in the back
> > seat on a regular basis - I just make sure the seatbelts
> are darn tight.
> >     -Josiah
> >     '84 GTI
> >     '87 QSW (much better for carrying kids in, but the rear
> calipers currently
> > stick and I don't have the fundage to get new ones)
> >     http://bork.hampshire.edu
> >
>
> '84 Wolfsburg Scirocco - getting closer to the road
> '84 4dr GLI - getting closer to retirement (sniff)
> '84 2dr GLI - waiting for _MY_ retirement
> '83 4dr Jetta GL Diesel - daily smoker
> '99 Jetta TDI - wife's daily driver
>
> ...and too many others to mention
>
> Drew MacPherson, Network Analyst, University of Guelph
>
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