Car seat tether anchor option for L400

[chris]

The rear 14 mm bolt holding the second row seat track in place provides an option for a car seat tether anchor. The bolt is hidden by a carpet plug.

There is an L300 thread on this topic where the tether was attached under the seat but the L400 has plastic completely surrounding the base.

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Anchor installed.

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Tether attached to anchor.

Incidentally, the car seat manual for this particular model warns that if the seat belts originate forward of the seatback/seat bottom crease (which they do on an L400 captains' chair), a locking clip must be used. It might be a good idea to take a close look at your manual to find out what is safest for your kids.

[Percy]

Where did you get the tether anchor from? I need to buy one so that I can install my child's seat in the car.

[chris]

Percy, Delicat said Canadian Tire for under $5.

http://www.delica.ca/forum/baby-car-sea ... tml#p35949

If you got your seat new it came with one - maybe check the bag with the instructions?

If the bolt won't slip through the anchor you may have to file a tiny bit off the hole (basically remove the paint).

[Percy]

Got them at Canadian Tire, 8 apiece and installed no problem thanks to your post.

[William]

Good post!

[gnarly]

Hi Nice Tutorial.

Just curious if you are using this achor for a child car seat in the middle captin seat or in the 3rd row bench?

I couldn't deduce that from your photos.

Thanks I've been needing to do this too.

[Percy]

Not that I am trying to speak for Chris but it is the middle Captain's seats. The plugs are along the sliding track.

[manic29]

Hi guys,
great info here.

I really wanted to be able to slide the seats around without having to undo the car seats. I bought a couple of the tether anchors and was going to look for somewhere on the base to attach them.

When I popped off the plastic base cover, lo and behold there was a perfect attachment point there already. Sorry no pic of the seat base with the cover off but here is a closeup:


You can see the metal rod/bracket in there

So all I had to do was take my 1" spade drill bit and make a hole in the plastic as shown, centered side to side and as close to the edge as possible. Wider view:



So I didn't need to use the tether anchors on the captain's chairs. Instead I attached them for future use on the rear bench seats under the seatbelt attachment bolt.

Hope this helps someone out.
Dave

[jessef]

Great mod Dave.