Child Seat Problems of Ford Explorer

I put our britax diplomat car seat in my wife's Ford Explorer. I attached the seat belt and the extra long strap that is attached to the top of the car seat that gets hooked to a hook on the seat. The excess strap was hanging out the door and we did not realize it when we drove away with our 2 year old daughter was in the seat. The strap was dragging on the ground and got caught under the tire and violently pulled the car seat towards the door, then the strap broke. We pulled over and found the car seat was basically laying sideways on the back seat. Our daughter was screaming, and we think she may have been smacked into the door when the strap got pulled under the tire and yanked the car seat. This is a serious problem and should be looked into immediately. Maybe have a self retracting strap in the future, so it does not just hang there (related vehicle information: model year=2009, make=explorer, model=Ford).

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Carseat was installed rearfacing, in both outboard positions, with latch, no top tether, in a 2007 Ford Explorer. (2nd row) carseat was installed properly by myself, a cpst, on multiple occasions with little to no movement at the rear facing beltpath. After a period of time, ranging from a few hours to days, the seat will loosen beyond the allowable 1 inch of movement at the beltpath. Many times when child has not been placed in the seat. There is no identifiable reason for the belt to loosen other than the belt slipping through the tightener. The tightener slides extremely easily on the belt in both directions and it takes minimal, if any force to release the silver tab and loosen the latch belt. I have seen this seat loosen about 5 times in my vehicle. I do not let my child ride in it while installed with latch for this reason and I cannot use the seat to its full capacity if the latch belt is defective. I contacted sunshine kids and informed them of the problem and am working with their cost to replicate the problem again. They have offered to replace my current latch belt with another, however this problem is not limited to my latch belt alone. They will be replacing with the same product. For the time being I have declined the new latch belt so that I can wait to see if it is repairable, or recalled. (related vehicle information: model year=2007, make=Ford, model=explorer).

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Sunshine kids radian 80sl convertible car seat. When installed rear-facing with latch, the adjuster mechanism ends up on the edge of the belt path, preventing the belt from staying tight, even without any interference. It can cause a person to think that the seat is tightly installed when it is not. The only solution is to install with the seat belt. (related vehicle information: model year=2006, make=Ford, model=explorer).

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The contact owns a 1997 Ford Explorer and a 2008 graco snug ride child restraint seat, model number 7fema3, manufactured on September 16, 2008. While driving approximately between 10-15 mph; the child was properly secured in an "infant" child restraint seat. The child restraint seat was installed with the seat belt system. Whenever making a turn the restraint seat and base tilted to the rear center seat with the occupant in it. The child seat was taken to a child seat technician for inspection and installation. The failure continued with no resolutions. The failure mileage was unknown and the current mileage was 125,000. The VIN was not available. Bl.

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: the contact stated that the harness clip cracked, and also the harness buckle would not lock into place, which allows the child to get out.

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While placing the child inside the car seat the bottom of seat sheared off. Consumer was able to catch the bottom before hitting the floor. This put the child in danger.

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While placing the child inside of the vehicle. The arm of the car seat broke off.

Bolt that attaches the seat belt for the integrated child seat came apart.

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Built in child seat design allows child's leg to slip out of seat/hang between door and sear, also design of seat belt buckle on child seat causes discomfort/pain for children.

Integrated child safety seat is located against the right rear door, presenting possibility of child's fingers/arms of legs getting shut in door.

I am having trouble finding a car seat that fits the middle of the back seat. My child is 8 months of age and needs to be rear facing. For some reason the larger car seats do seem to fit securly, no matter what we do it's very loose. Is there a listing of approved car seats for our vehicle. Thank you.

When installing the infant seat, having problems with the seat being stationary. It seems that the seat belt anchors, ar wider then the carseat, therefore, a lot of sliding from right to left takes place, unless I use blankets to wedge between the carseat and seatbelt. I also have leather seats. If I pull the seat belt tighter, then the baby is leaning too far forward towards back of seat and ball indicator of carseat is not in its correct postion.