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[Cosmorunner]

I have 2 x of the above car seats (two in each vehicle and both on approved vehicle list).

I have just changed from the five point harness to the regular car seatbelt.

alarmingly I’ve turned round in the car and seen the seatbelt really slack and sagging.

it seems that when the seatbelt is fed through the red plastic loop (made for the seatbelt!) that it is causing seatbelt retraction issues. I don’t understand how to combat this as I’ve installed correctly.

has anyone else had this experience and have any suggestions?

im really not in the market for new car seats as i would need 4 and they’re meant to last until they’re 12 (or 135cm!!!!)

there is no issue with the seatbelt retracting when not through the car seat loop.

I’ve also reached out to Joie and await a response.

Any help would be appreciated.

On all of the seats? That seems unusual. Have you got a picture of how the seatbelt is passed through the loop?

As an aside I noticed DS2's seatbelt was staying slack the other day and when I checked it, he must have spilled a drink or a bit of a sweet or something on the black plastic rectangular slidey bit on the buckle tongue - it was just catching on the nylon of the seatbelt and causing it to not run through smoothly. I'm sure that under accident forces, it would have locked and gone tight but as it was there was way too much slack over his lap so I wasn't happy with it.

(Since I didn't have water on me I am ashamed to say I licked the sticky stuff off and rubbed it and that seemed to do the trick!)

I’ve got a video but it won’t let me post it! I’ve sent it to joie.

theres definitely nothing wrong with how it’s fed through or the seatbelts themselves as they retract perfectly when the car seats aren’t there.

I feel like it’s a design flaw for our vehicles as the child seat sits higher than the actual car seat which means the car seatbelt is having to rest over the top of the child seat causing it to ‘stick’. But I can’t be the only one with Audis and these seats?!

MN only accepts still pictures (jpg or png) rather than videos. Would be interesting to see what Joie say.

Do you mean that the child seat belt guide is basically making the seatbelt run up (from the spooler) and over? I think that is OK - I have just looked for ages for advice and can't find anything prohibiting this, only if the belt runs from the spooler backwards to the child seat, then it's an issue (usually only happens in front seats). But of course, if it's preventing free movement of the belt that could be an issue.

When the child is sitting in it do you still have the same issue? Their shoulder should be roughly level with that guide or slightly lower, so it might be that improves the angle enough to let it flow through.