The TT Roadster is strictly a 2-seater.
I don’t see why she can’t just slip the dealer a couple bucks and have the airbag disconnected.
Sorry, I missed this before. In rollover accidents one of the most common injuries are contusions and even deep lacerations to the neck and torso caused by the slash line of a standard three point seatbelt. Three point belts are designed to protect in frontal motion but provide no protection for lateral motion, where the neck can be forced into the edge of the belt. This is why racers use five and six point harnesses, as do child carseats. Whether a passenger sustaining an injury from a seatbelt by a side impact or rollover would have been better off not wearing the belt is debatable (flailing about loose in a rolling vehicle doesn’t sound to healthy to me) but several and fatal injuries can occur due to direct interaction with a slash belt. Side impact airbags are really the only practical way to protect passengers in a offset or side impact situation.
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OK in looking further at the Audi website I see you are correct. Before I just looked at the safety page which gave the standard kids in the back seat warning. :smack: I just went back and looked and the interior drawing shows that you are correct, it is a 2 seater.
I would like to amend my previous remarks.
Since the TT is a 2 seat car, it will be equipped with an airbag off switch.
Assuming that the parents have turned the airbag off, I would have no objections to them transporting a child in this car. It would be no different that transporting the kid either in the back seat or in a non- air bag equipped car.
I would not rely on the advanced airbag system to take care of this, I would use the switch.
BTW you don’t just slip the dealer a couple of bucks, it would be a serious violation of Federal regulations for the dealer to do the disconnection. Any and all airbag disconnections have to be approved by NHTSA and then and only then may a bag be legally disconnected.
How can this be? I’ve seen the seat my niece used when she was very small and it’s designed for that eventuality. And aren’t you exaggerating about it being ‘a couple of inches’ away? More like 2 feet or more when you push the seat right back.
I well remember stories about front-facing children being suffocated by airbags, but are there any actual stories of children being killed as you describe, but in seats designed for cars with airbags?
This is cute. Presumably she covers the rest of the baby in UV protective clothing as well considering that damage from UV isn’t limited to skin on the head? Babies’ skin is even more sensitive to UV than adult skin, so I’d be sure she’s keeping all of baby well protected from the sun.
Yeah, it’s not like you get sun any other way than through a convertible top. Like through the windows or anything. Or, you know, from being outside.
I know, right? I already had my motorcycle before the baby came and I couldn’t afford to get a new car. So I strap the carseat to the back of the motorcycle.
You wouldn’t believe how many people pass judgement on me.
I don’t do it to endanger the baby or for kicks and laughs. The motorcycle was there first, ya know what I’m sayin?
A couple inches sounds a lot more accurate than 2 feet or more. They’re not large cars.
Seriously have you ever looked at a car with a rearward facing child seat in it?
First off look at a seat in a car. The headrest is located rearward from the junction of the seat back and bottom. An adults face will be maybe 10"-1’ in front of the headrest. Depending on how far they have the seat reclined, their face may even be behind he a vertical line drawn from the junction of the seat back and seat bottom. The airbag will come out to meet their face as they are thrown forward.
on the other hand a reward facing child seat is maybe 24-30"’ from end to end. There is no way in hell the back of the child seat can go rearward from the junction of the seat back and seat bottom. The forward end of the seat is also raised so it may either rest on the dash, or just slightly above / behind it. So measure 24-30" forward from the junction of the seat back and seat bottom. That is where the seat will be. I just went and measured my car. With the seat all the back there is 30" between the junction of the front seat back / seat bottom and the dash. A 24" seat would be 6" off the airbag.
I have seen car seat installations where the seat actually touched the dashboard, or in the case of a rear seat installation, the front seat had to be moved forward as the seat would not fit in the back otherwise. Car seats are big.
Of course a lot of this depends on how far back a particular seat in a particular car may move.
I have no idea what you mean by
What eventuality? No child seat is designed for use with an airbag. None.
Brown Eyed Girl I would just like to note that humans lived for tens of thousands of years without UV protective clothing and somehow managed to survive.
You better have safety wheels when you tow that car seat on a bike, just skidding it along could cause small pebbles to jump inside the seat and make his teddy bear all crunchy.
Other than that, you DO know what I am saying. If your particular church of parenting says that kids in 2 seaters are the work of the devil, then knock yourself out. It is not. It can be done safely and people who chose to do so are not automatically bad parents.
The OP doesn’t mention which Audi. There are also convertible versions of the A3 and A4 and these are 4 seaters.
Having ridden with a mother with his child in the back seat (behing the passenger seat) I am unsure of the CW about having the kid ride back there. True, in case of an accident the kid is certainly safer. But, that’s if an accident occurs. The Mother was constantly turning her head and reaching back to do something or other with the baby. I think that this woudl lead to a higher chance that an accident would occur in the first place.
Doesn’t the fact that the seat is a rear facing one negate the airbag problem? I thought the air bag problem was they hit the child in the face.
With a 3 year-old and two cars I’ve had to purchase 4 car seats of various makes and models in the past 3 years. On following the installation instructions on every single one they never recommended or suggested not to install it in the front seat, they flat out said !!DO NOT!! install in a front seat under any circumstances.
If a parent chooses to disregard this are they a bad parent? You tell me.
I believe the problem is the impact of the air bag against the back of the car seat, which can cause the baby’s head to snap forward violently. Their heads are not restrained.
Further to what Myrrajh said, both my car and my baby’s carseat sport this warning label illustrating what happens.
For anyone who doesn’t want to bother to follow Elret’s link, I’m guessing it’s the warning label I was going to mention that I see on the sun visor of every car I’m in that’s been made in the last, oh, probably ten years or so: a depiction of a baby’s neck being snapped in their rear-facing carseat as the front passenger airbag deploys.
Well, yeah. That’s why it seems surprising that people seem unaware that you’re not really supposed to put a rear-facing car seat in the front seat.
Why is it surprising that people would put their child in a front seat that doesn’t have a functioning airbag?
She specified 2-seater later on. Also, the A3 cabrio isn’t available in the US.