Carseats and Roccos

[scirocco at powerlink.net (John C. Worden)]

Check your local laws though, it isn't legal in some states to have baby seats
or children in the front seat.


At 05:22 PM 1/16/04 -0800, T. Reed wrote:

>I don't have a kid, but my personal choice would be to put the seat in the
>front. I would expect it to be safer up there; the doors have big steel
>beams/tubes in them, rather than the flimsy sheet metal protecting the
>sides of the car back by the rear seat.
>
>I've seen one rabbit rolling at 5 mph poke through the skin of another in
>that rear seat area like it was wet kleenex.
>
>Also the roof is higher in the front and I think it has more reinforcement
>(especially on sunroof cars?)
>
>-Toby
>
>On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Cory Langford wrote:
>
> >
> > In the '86 the Peg. infant seat fit if I put the seat all the way forward
> > and then tilted it forward some more.  You basically can't have a passenger
> > unfortunately, but I did not want to put it in the front seat.
> >
> > Cory
> >
> > At 09:50 AM 01/15/2004 -0800, Brad Sterling wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >     This is for the parents of the group (no real performance mods 
> here).  A
> > >while back, I posted asking about newborns and Roccos.  I decided to
> > >continue to use the Roc as my DD.  Now that my son is here, I've got a
> > >problem.  We've got one of those Graco car seats with the detachable 
> bases.
> > >One base is in the '02 GTI with no problem, the other is in the '86 16v.
> > >The problem is the baby seat won't fit rear facing in the back seat of the
> > >16v without bumping into the front seats.  Has anyone found a car seat 
> that
> > >can be rear facing in the back seat of a Scirocco or are people just using
> > >the front seat (no airbag worries here)?  Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >-Brad
> > >'86 Scirocco 16v
> > >
> > >
> > >
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John C. Worden
Bucksport, Maine

'98 Dakota 4x4-
'86 Scirocco 8V-
'81 Scirocco 2.0 16V -
'78 Scirocco Brazil Brown Metallic,  4 speed.
'89 Polaris Indy Deluxe