Re: Anchoring child safety seat in rear seat of Scirocco

["Aaron D. Patton" <apatton1@airmail.net>]

How about a steel chassis brace, such as the Neuspeed or Eurosport Racing
rear shock tower bars?  Just a thought.

Aaron
'79 Scirocco S-gone......:-(>
'93 Corrado SLC
----- Original Message -----
From: Neal Tovsen <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>
To: 'drew' <drew@quixote.cs.uoguelph.ca>; Scirocco-L (E-mail)
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: Anchoring child safety seat in rear seat of Scirocco


> 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
> >
> > drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca           |  visit the
> > Massey-Harris page:
> > http://dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca/~drew   |  http://m-h.cs.uoguelph.ca
> >
> >
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