One more car seat question

MrsSR · July 2010

When looking for places that inspect car seats, our local police station was on the list.

Will they help you install it or just inspect it? I'm guessing if it were wrong, they'd undo it and put it back the proper way.

I'm hoping we get the seat at our shower on Sunday so my brother (a dad of 3 and a police officer) can help us.

CoastieWife08 · July 2010

It all depends on the officer. When we had it inspected before DD was born, we had the seat put in wrong and they were nice enough to redo it.

I've heard other places won't redo it for you for litigation reasons. They'll tell you how to fix it and reinspect it after, but they won't actually fix it for you.

tiggergirl0325 · July 2010

I'd install it first and then they will check it. I'm sure they'd install it for you, but you're going to want to know how to do it right yourself so that you can put it back in the right way later.

tiggergirl0325 · July 2010

oooh I didn't even think of the legal ramifications--yea, I can see how they wouldn't want to be held responsible for the installation.

ryaroberts · July 2010

They won't install it or reinstall it for liability purposes, only check it and have you change it if it's installed improperly and re-check it.

MrsSR · July 2010

Well, hopefully we'll do it right the first time. I watched a video on it and it didn't seem too hard.

Randy'sgirl52409 · July 2010

The officer in our town actually installed it for us as well as showed us how to do it ourselves so we can install another base in DH's car. They were very good about it all. It was really easy to latch in the car too!

RitaT22 · July 2010

We installed ours first and they checked it. Of course, it wasn't installed properly, and the officer was nice enough to fix it for us. Also, we had to sign a waiver of liability in case of an accident. Basically saying they were not responsible if baby did get hurt.

EuroChick · July 2010

When we visit my mother in New York she always takes the car seat for DD to be installed in her car at the local fire department.

eris1995 · July 2010

ryaroberts:
They won't install it or reinstall it for liability purposes, only check it and have you change it if it's installed improperly and re-check it.

That might be your area - but it's not true for everywhere. My local police station will install it. We always bring it to them with the car seat installed so they can check it. They then take the car seat out of the car and look it over and they re-install it.

I think it's a good idea to try it yourself so if you did it wrong you know what and can do it correctly in the future.

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