Helpful. Thanks! My problem is getting the top tether strap tightened with that configuration. Coming from a Jeep where I could easily access the anchor from the back of the rear seat it was possible to tighten those down to the specs of the car seat much more easily.
Remember with a top tether, you just need to remove the slack. The really cranked down, less than an inch of movement rule is for the LATCH anchors/lower anchors or seatbelt, whichever you are using. The top tether does not need to be cranked down so tightly, just remove the slack!
The most idiotic design… the reason you can’t crank down on the top tether is exactly that it will pull the top over at an angle… but if your truck has a proper latch system, yank on the top tether and get that child seat secured. These routed loop things are a joke and seats always end up moving more than one inch that most manufacturers manuals say to be 1” or less
Even with a top tether anchor behind the seat or on the seatback, you don’t need to crank the top tether down that tightly: just remove the slack! Truck manufacturers have some unique challenges to work around to meet federal safety standards and allow for a top tether to be properly tightened, with the cab wall being so close to the seatback. This is actually one of the easier ways of doing it in a pickup truck!
What if you have 2 car seats on either side of the truck, can they connect to the same middle loop? And what if there were 3 car seats? I can’t understand how that could work
I can’t tell you how kind I was pulling on those tabs trying to get the seat to fold down. 😅 Thanks for the video. Guess I should have read the next page in the F-250 manual.
Great question! They would both attach to the center loop, OR you could put them side by side and the center loop can be both a router for the center seat and an anchor for the side seat. The loop style top tether system in trucks is the only system that allows the two to attach to one loop/anchor!
This is helpful, but what do you do if you have a carseat behind the driver seat & another in the middle? Route middle strap through the loop that's already connected to the seat behind the driver side?
Great question: each loop can be both a router and an anchor at the same time! So each loop can have a tether strap routed through it while also having another seat’s tether strap hooked onto it. If you have two forward facing seats in the outboard seats, they CAN both attach to the center loop, too!
Thank you so much. We’re borrowing my Dad’s pickup and the install is definitely different than our Tacoma (has the metal ring behind the seat). This was way easier than how the manual was written. Thanks again.
Right on, just got a 2020 f150 and was leaning the seat forward looking for a place to latch it. Saw the top tether and knew something was up. Thanks for making this video!
For most seats, you only use the lower anchors or the seatbelt when rearfacing, not the top tether. If you have a rotating car seat that requires the top tether on the base to be used while rearfacing, it would route the same way shown in this video.
Yes, the loop style top tether anchors in a truck allow for each loop to serve as both a router and an anchor at the same time! So you can have a tether strap going through a loop, and have another seat’s tether strap hooked onto that loop as well. The center loop is allowed to have two top tether anchors attached to it, one from each outboard seat!
Just spent 2 hours trying to find out what to do with the drivers side install and tether on my 2018 F150. This video is a life save! Thank you!
Helpful. Thanks! My problem is getting the top tether strap tightened with that configuration. Coming from a Jeep where I could easily access the anchor from the back of the rear seat it was possible to tighten those down to the specs of the car seat much more easily.
Remember with a top tether, you just need to remove the slack. The really cranked down, less than an inch of movement rule is for the LATCH anchors/lower anchors or seatbelt, whichever you are using. The top tether does not need to be cranked down so tightly, just remove the slack!
thank you so much! never cussed at an inanimate object so much in my life
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Too true.
Same dude
Me too
Thanks so much, definitely did help. The owners manual is trash lol. Have a blessed day
Perfect for my Ford Lightning!
Thank you!!!! Me and mine were straight idiots when figuring this out lol.
Less than three minutes and yet it gave all the info needed. Fantastic video, thank you.
Thank you. Very professional
The most idiotic design… the reason you can’t crank down on the top tether is exactly that it will pull the top over at an angle… but if your truck has a proper latch system, yank on the top tether and get that child seat secured. These routed loop things are a joke and seats always end up moving more than one inch that most manufacturers manuals say to be 1” or less
Even with a top tether anchor behind the seat or on the seatback, you don’t need to crank the top tether down that tightly: just remove the slack!
Truck manufacturers have some unique challenges to work around to meet federal safety standards and allow for a top tether to be properly tightened, with the cab wall being so close to the seatback. This is actually one of the easier ways of doing it in a pickup truck!
And this IS a “proper LATCH system,” it’s just not the way many people are used to seeing it!
What if you have 2 car seats on either side of the truck, can they connect to the same middle loop? And what if there were 3 car seats? I can’t understand how that could work
Yes, I actually just posted a video a couple days ago addressing that situation and showing what that looks like! Check out my channel!
This was SO HELPFUL!!! The user manual does not make it clear how to route the top tether in my Ford F-150! Thank you!!!
I can’t tell you how kind I was pulling on those tabs trying to get the seat to fold down. 😅 Thanks for the video. Guess I should have read the next page in the F-250 manual.
Thank you so much lol
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Thank you I've been losing my mind for a few hours now!
Saved my night! Thanks!
Thank you! Just got a 2017 F150 and thought we were doing it wrong but we’re following the manual
THANK YOU. Clear and brief.
Thanks so much we had no idea- somehow a "strap" to hold a babyseat didn't compute- the salesman also had no idea as he was a confirmed batchlor lol
This video is GREAT! Clear and concise. Thank you!
Life saver. Thank you.
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So helpful! Thank you!
What if I have two car seats on either side can I stil clip both to the middle one??? Will that middle one support both tethers on each side?
Great question! They would both attach to the center loop, OR you could put them side by side and the center loop can be both a router for the center seat and an anchor for the side seat. The loop style top tether system in trucks is the only system that allows the two to attach to one loop/anchor!
Awesome! Thank you
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2006 F150 doesn't have this information anywhere, thank you for this video
Thank you!!!
Thank you!
This is helpful, but what do you do if you have a carseat behind the driver seat & another in the middle? Route middle strap through the loop that's already connected to the seat behind the driver side?
Great question: each loop can be both a router and an anchor at the same time! So each loop can have a tether strap routed through it while also having another seat’s tether strap hooked onto it. If you have two forward facing seats in the outboard seats, they CAN both attach to the center loop, too!
@@countrykidscarseatsafety Great, thank you so much!
Thank you!!
Thank you!!!
THANK YOU!!!!! My truck manual had zero info on this!
Thank you so much. We’re borrowing my Dad’s pickup and the install is definitely different than our Tacoma (has the metal ring behind the seat). This was way easier than how the manual was written. Thanks again.
Does this work for 2020 F250?
@@devotes63 If your F-250 has those webbing loops at the top, yes, this is also how that one works!
Right on, just got a 2020 f150 and was leaning the seat forward looking for a place to latch it. Saw the top tether and knew something was up. Thanks for making this video!
Clear and simple but and incredibly helpful. Thank you!!!
Perfect explanation!!! Great tips. Thanks so much!!!
how about for rear facing mode?
For most seats, you only use the lower anchors or the seatbelt when rearfacing, not the top tether. If you have a rotating car seat that requires the top tether on the base to be used while rearfacing, it would route the same way shown in this video.
This was very helpful!! The owners manual has a section on this but it is not well written. Very simple install.
Does this work for a 2011 f250?
If it has the webbing loops, then yes it would work the same way, but verify that in your truck’s manual!
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Thank goodness you uploaded this just what I needed!!
Thank you so much for making this video
Do I need to remove the head rest? Or can I leave it on?
This was really helpful thank you
So huge, just got my truck today. Needed this. 🤟
Helped me! Thank you!
Thank you. I swear I was about to sell my truck. Lol.
Now. How about if you have multiple car seats then? Same middle tether?
Yes, the loop style top tether anchors in a truck allow for each loop to serve as both a router and an anchor at the same time! So you can have a tether strap going through a loop, and have another seat’s tether strap hooked onto that loop as well. The center loop is allowed to have two top tether anchors attached to it, one from each outboard seat!
So helpful thank you!!