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Has anyone had any luck figuring out a way to tether the front of a rear facing child car seat down? The seat is installed in the center rear position of our S4 Avant (A4/A6/allroad should be similar/identical). The seat manufacturer recommends tethering the front of the seat down to a solid anchoring point in front of the rear seat if possible (to prevent the seat from pitching up and back against the rear seat back in the event of a serious rear end accident), but I cannot seem to find anything solid there to attach the tether to. The seat is a Britax Advantage (almost identical to the Britax Roundabout) if it matters. TIA!

NewYorkS4

got a 4 year old in a booster seat facing forwards, and I have the infant one, where the BASE faces rear, and you attach the car seat to that.

good luck with it!! sorry i couldn't help.

ShutupAndHoldon

We have 2 infant seats neither has front tether, it's never been a problem, you can't be too safe though. I would advise against mounting the seat in the center. It is far too unstable (side to side) because of the hump.

brad21

...I haven't had to deal with a rear facing child seat, but here's a hint if you haven't already done it. Get a device called a Mighty Tight. It allows you to cinch down the seat belt waaaaaaay tighter than you would otherwise be able to. I got mine at Burlington Coat Factory, but I think there's a web site too. Search the archives. Apparently one of our fellow AW'ers is the designer of this ingenious little apparatus!

LosGatosS4

if he's 20+lbs, why not face him forward... it's weight based, not age, right?

jyoteen

How about the rear tow hook?

JRingham

In the pocket where the tether is rapped up, there should also be a small buckle with a loop at the other end. Use this to wrap around the inner rail of one of the front seats, stick the buckle through the loop, and then latch the tether to the buckle and tighten. I did this before I switched the seat to forward facing. Works great.

Richard Solomon

It gets a lot easier when they go forward facing, but I was pretty happy with rear facing seat tethered to the rear.

jyoteen

I'm just joking. :-)

DanA4

seat and used the tether to anchor it to the bottom of the front seat. In our '02, there's a silver metal bar running across the bottom of the seat from side to side that we wrapped the small buckle/loop strap around. That's basically how the guy at BabiesRUs showed us, except he put the seat in the center position with the strap going off at an angle to the base of the front seat. We preferred the side instead of the middle for a more solid fit as well as the luxury of a having a little more usable back seat space.