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The teather when rear facing sjould just have the slack taken out. Not super tight. Please read the manual you just told parents to put their child in danger by installing wrong. The article has been amended. I made a mistake and wrote the wrong thing in the article but have now corrected it after some of the comments here and further research.

I never intended to mislead parents and am grateful for all of the comments, good or bad on any article that Practical Motoring publishes.

Please do a bit more research when writing car restraint articles. A motoring writer does not make you an expert on car restraint safety. A lot of people could potentially follow your bad advice, and there is already a lot of ignorance and bare minimum attitude to safety out there.

You have such a great platform, it would be great to have some well informed and well researched articles regarding best practice for car safety out there! Hi C, thanks for your thoughts. I never said I was an expert in car restraint safety, but I do have small children and have spent plenty of time fitting different types of car seats to different types of cars.

Yes, I suggested you should use both a seatbelt and the isofix latches, and this was wrong. This has now been corrected. My suggestion to pull the top tether tight could also have been misconstrued, so I have corrected the article to state that slack should be removed. You have reviewed it very intelligently. Great work keep it up. Car Advice. Newsletter Signup First Name: Email address:.

Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. Robert Kay. Robert Pepper. Reply to Robert Kay. Sheree Brown. Reply to Robert Pepper. Reply to Sheree Brown. Reply to PracticalMotoring. Reply to K. My mistake. Reply to t. Reply to FingerDiddle. Reply to C. Cindy Huggins. This may sound very complicated, but this is a safety system that was created to make fitting a car seat even easier for mom and dad.

This means that the seat is securely attached to the frame of the vehicle and will not easily wiggle out. Quick, easy and safe! By keeping the seat secured at the base, means that the car seat will not be able to topple forward in a collision.

This will take time to become the standard so check your vehicle first to ensure that you have the connectors. Previous designs of car seats used the vehicles seat belt in order to install the car seat. There are many different types and shapes of cars, different heights of back seats, seat belts, anchorage points and many different types of car seats.

As such it sometimes became a bit trickly to fit a car seat correctly. Isofix was developed to create peace of mind, protecting your child better in a car crash.