Question on baby safety

[Jon Linkov]

Jeryd -

Your wife needs to think about hauling a child, a child seat, and any extra
"stuff" in and out of the back seat of an escape. It's all lifting, and all
lifting UP. Consider that. Plus, as someone else pointed out, the SUV is
only safe when hitting a smaller object. However, even a car-based Ford
Escape has a high center of gravity and is less maneuverable than any sedan
in an emergency or accident-avoidance situation.

As for the car seats, you should be able to find a good position in either
the left, middle, or right side of the rear seat. Just make sure it is
secured. There is a listing on the web (linked off NHTSA or IIHS, I can't
remember) of places nationwide that offer fittings of car seats. I'll see if
I can dig it up at work tomorrow from one of our car seat experts at the
magazine I work for....

But this site lists the people who are approved to correctly install
baby/child seats into vehicles. Usually the police departments in most
localities will do it, or the state police. But many car dealers have an
approved person, who has spent the money and time to go through training, to
install the seats.

Best regards,
Jon Linkov

On 4/13/04 1:52 PM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
<quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:

> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:09:03 -0700
> From: "Jeryd - Audi" <AUDI_ON_FIRE at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Question on baby safety
> 
The belt will not tighten enough, and because of that the wife
> has to get rid of it to get something safer (she wants an Escape for
> herself).
> 
> That's fine with me, but I want to get an Audi Quattro (for myself).  I just
> wanted to make sure on the odd days that I get to drive the kid around that
> a car seat will work fine in the rear seat.  And from what I am reading it
> sounds like it will.
> 
> Thanks for the advice!
> Jeryd