Hmmmm…
If you have a child who needs to ride in a carseat, you will love Volvo. You will want to kiss the designer of the seatbelt buckle, because it has a locking clip built in. For the first month and a half, the only car either my wife or I had ever installed a carseat in was our S70, and we never understood the stigma of locking clips. Then we took our car for its 22,500 checkup and we had a Camry for a loaner. We wrestled with the back seatbelt in that Toyota for an honest 20 minutes trying to get the locking clip around the belt, and the belt tight enough to immobilize our carseat’s base. It wasn’t possible. No matter what we tried, the seat flopped back and forth.
In our Volvo S70, there is a little red toggle switch in the seatbelt latchplate. (the “male” end) You click it to “child seat,” you put the belt through the carseat and latch it, you yank on the shoulderbelt. Presto, the seat is totally immobile. The whole operation takes 20 seconds. It is such a good design that I can’t even find adequate words of praise. Every carmaker should include a built-in locking clip in their seatbelts, just as they all use the 3-point harness originally invented by Volvo.
Baby Calin is coming up on 1 year old. My experience with the car seat in the S70 has not been the same as this person is reporting, but I did not know about this “child seat” setting until just now.
From TFM:
When attaching the seat belt to a child restraint:
Make sure the red lock button is moved to the right (see illustration A). A coin, etc.. can be used to move the button.
Attach the seat belt to the child restraint according to the child seat manufacturer’s instructions.
Pull the lap section of the seat belt taut.
The lap section of the seat belt cannot be loosened as long as the red lock button is in the right position.
The lap section of the seat belt can be adjusted when the lock button is in the left position.
{edit} Checked it out when I got home. They were all set to Child Seat already. Found the video for our car seat. I think I am going to replace the pool noodle that we have been using to get the base level with an old towel.