Question for parents... - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

ghost86 · 04-08-2014, 03:51 AM

How many of you let your little ones ride in the front seat of your FR-S/BRZ? Might take a 3 or 4 day road trip in a couple weeks with my four year old. She loves cruising in the FR-S and I thought she'd enjoy riding up front for a change...in a harnessed, high-back car seat of course, with the seat all the way back. It seems like from what I've read, that half of people say absolutely not until the child is 13 years old, and then the other half that think the first group are overreactors and it's not a big deal. What do you guys think?

Calum · 04-08-2014, 05:00 AM

Just remove the head rest from the passenger seat to give her a better view. The air bag would decapitate her if it went off. Why risk it? Besides, it's illegal.

Sent from my samstone

ghost86 · 04-08-2014, 06:42 AM

Thanks for the input, never thought about taking off the headrest. However, it's not illegal as long as they are in the proper booster/car seat for their size.

mike the snake · 04-08-2014, 07:17 AM

I think you can turn the passenger seat airbag off if you want.

Burrcold · 04-08-2014, 07:47 AM

It may not be illegal, but it is totally stupid.

AznBRZer · 04-08-2014, 11:17 AM

^This.

Better safe than sorry.

sklimo · 04-08-2014, 11:37 AM

I put my kid in the trunk

Model Citizen · 04-08-2014, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sklimo

I put my kid in the trunk

thats mighty kind of you to move him down off the roof rack for the winter months.

sklimo · 04-08-2014, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Model Citizen

thats mighty kind of you to move him down off the roof rack for the winter months.

The old lady is on roof rack

Model Citizen · 04-08-2014, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sklimo

The old lady is on roof rack

Problem solved

Sportsguy83 · 04-08-2014, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Model Citizen

Problem solved

LMMFAOOO

sklimo · 04-08-2014, 12:12 PM

There are no words

SirBrass · 04-08-2014, 04:58 PM

What's the big deal about not letting kids ride up front? The airbag won't decapitate them if they're far enough back and properly belted in (either booster seat or seat belt adjuster or what have you). For pete's sake, WE rode up front properly belted in well before teenage years and how many of us were killed by the safety systems? Yeah, exactly: statistically insignificant.

If they're big enough for a booster seat instead of a baby seat, then they're probably big enough to sit up front with the proper precautions taken.

Used to be you could use a key to disable the front passenger airbag in cars. Not sure why those were taken out. Seems pretty stupid to me.

wheelhaus · 04-08-2014, 05:18 PM

I wish we could more easily disable the passenger airbags for situations like this. I understand there's danger putting a child in the front seat, but it seems largely due to the airbags. I don't believe there's any difference in the restraints. Are there any other real reasons why it's so dangerous or is it just one of those things where paranoia precedes logic and it was put into law?

In the BRZ, I wish I could put my daughter's rear facing seat (or at least her forward facing booster seat in the next 6 months or so) up front with the passenger airbags disabled. I don't see how that would be any different or more dangerous than the rear seat.

Maybe it's simply because there's an airbag there with an explosive device inside it, and even with it disabled there's no real guarantee it won't trigger.

04-08-2014, 03:51 AM	#1
ghost86 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Drives: 2013 Ultramarine FR-S 6MT Location: Ohio Posts: 90 Thanks: 10 Thanked 21 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Question for parents... How many of you let your little ones ride in the front seat of your FR-S/BRZ? Might take a 3 or 4 day road trip in a couple weeks with my four year old. She loves cruising in the FR-S and I thought she'd enjoy riding up front for a change...in a harnessed, high-back car seat of course, with the seat all the way back. It seems like from what I've read, that half of people say absolutely not until the child is 13 years old, and then the other half that think the first group are overreactors and it's not a big deal. What do you guys think? __________________ 2013 Ultramarine FR-S (MT)

04-08-2014, 06:42 AM	#3
ghost86 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Drives: 2013 Ultramarine FR-S 6MT Location: Ohio Posts: 90 Thanks: 10 Thanked 21 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Thanks for the input, never thought about taking off the headrest. However, it's not illegal as long as they are in the proper booster/car seat for their size. __________________ 2013 Ultramarine FR-S (MT)

04-08-2014, 07:47 AM	#5
Burrcold Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Drives: Subaru BRZ Limited Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 2,624 Thanks: 763 Thanked 1,586 Times in 776 Posts Mentioned: 10 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	It may not be illegal, but it is totally stupid. __________________

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Calum That Guy Join Date: Dec 2011 Drives: 2013 asphalt FRS MT Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 4,865 Thanks: 5,058 Thanked 2,867 Times in 1,499 Posts Mentioned: 82 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	Just remove the head rest from the passenger seat to give her a better view. The air bag would decapitate her if it went off. Why risk it? Besides, it's illegal. Sent from my samstone

04-08-2014, 07:17 AM	#4
mike the snake Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Drives: 2013 BRZ Location: Norcal Posts: 1,592 Thanks: 1 Thanked 623 Times in 378 Posts Mentioned: 15 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I think you can turn the passenger seat airbag off if you want.

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04-08-2014, 05:18 PM	#14
wheelhaus Join Date: Jul 2012 Drives: 2013 BRZ, 2020 KTM Super Duke 1290R Location: Denver Posts: 1,788 Thanks: 714 Thanked 1,141 Times in 624 Posts Mentioned: 49 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	I wish we could more easily disable the passenger airbags for situations like this. I understand there's danger putting a child in the front seat, but it seems largely due to the airbags. I don't believe there's any difference in the restraints. Are there any other real reasons why it's so dangerous or is it just one of those things where paranoia precedes logic and it was put into law? In the BRZ, I wish I could put my daughter's rear facing seat (or at least her forward facing booster seat in the next 6 months or so) up front with the passenger airbags disabled. I don't see how that would be any different or more dangerous than the rear seat. Maybe it's simply because there's an airbag there with an explosive device inside it, and even with it disabled there's no real guarantee it won't trigger.

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