2015 Silverado CC Car Seat Insatll

[boostnls1]

Hey everyone, so i am completely lost. I have been trying to install my new car seat into my 2015 Silverado and am completely confused. I was told the safest spot to put the car seat was in the middle, however there are no anchors in the middle to hold the seat base into place. Am i able to use the 2 outer seats, or is that not a good idea? Who would of thought a damn car seat would give me so much grief. This is also my first child, so I have ZERO idea what I am doing.

Thanks everyone!

[aero10]

Most vehicles don't have LATCH for the center seat, so you have two options. One, use the outer seats. This is what we've always done. Yes, technically, they'd most likely be safer in the middle but I don't know that the difference can be quantified. Also, if you get a second child, one of them (or both) will have to be in an outer seat. Your second option is to use the seat belt to install the car seat instead of the LATCH connections. This is what you'd have to do if you needed three car seats in the back seat.

If the current car seat is rear-facing, this advice is for later, but on a forward facing seat, the upper tether is a little different on these trucks. There are loops at the top of each seat, you actually route the tether through the loop at the seating position the seat is in and then connect it to an adjacent loop. It through me for a loop and I had to read the manual *gasp* in order to figure out how they worked.

[leonidas711]

Same here, i have 2 car seats and have always put them behind driver and passenger.

[99silveradoz71]

We ended up putting ours in the outboard locations in thev truck and the wife's ride. It also makes loading/unloading easier.

[bc-chris]

soooooooooooooooooo... i'm not just supposed to throw the kids in the box???

as others have mentioned, we too have the car seats behind the driver's and passenger's seats, not in the middle

 

boostnls1, if you are unsure of your install you can likely take the car seat to the store you purchased it from and they will show you the proper way to install it (that's what we did with ours).  i believe in some areas you can also go to your local fire department and they can check to make sure the seats are installed correctly

 

[Ozer]

I remember riding in the back of the truck when i was about 12, had a cap on it. Laying on bunch of blankets listening to music and playing... allll the way to Florida from New York.

Talk about not safe  lol

[aseibel]

Its definitely easier to load kids into an outside seat. I never considered using the center location, even though i have head that too. and once you have the second kid, which one gets the "safe" center location?

[muddkatt]

5 minutes ago, aseibel said:

once you have the second kid, which one gets the "safe" center location?

The kid that you like the best!!!!!

[bndawgs]

depending on how big of a car seat you get, you might want to try the middle seat with the seat belt.  otherwise, one of the front seats may have to be up further than you would like

[bndawgs]

Just now, muddkatt said:

The kid that you like the best!!!!!

i was going to say the more well behaved one.  hahaha

[Nick The Great]

WIth our daughter, we did the middle for a while.  I have long arms and it was tough to reach.  And that was with the carrier clipping into the base style of seat.  My wife is much shorter and she had to crawl in to do it.

 

So when we switched to the normal style seat we went passenger side.  And then my wife's new car is bucket seats anyway, so there is not a middle seat.

 

I was also surprised there were no anchors in the middle of my '17, since my '07 had them.  I also had to read the manual for the upper tether and ran it through to the middle like @aero10 said

[boostnls1]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. This is for our 2 month old, and I did have the local fire department install the seat originally,  and they placed it in the middle. I took it out do to hauling a bunch of stuff and putting it back in had been a nightmare. I will try the other seats and see how I like it. Thanks everyone.