I have a Graco car seat for my little one on the way. I also have a 2001 Honda Civic EX with the harrness clips under the seat for car seats, We installed the car seat the way the directions said to, but the back of it, (the part the faces the front of the car) lifts up A LOT. Multiple people have tols me it‘s fine, that‘s how car seats work. I plan to stop by the State Police to have it checked too.but I am still SO NERVOUS!!Anyone else have this issue?
It's called a fluid and filter change. Remove the trans pan from bottom. Remove old filter, usually held by one bolt and the filter neck's o-ring. Put new 0-ring on notch on filter neck, dab a little fluid on it and push up into hole and replace bolt snug but not real tight. Clean and replace pan gasket and bolt it back on. Start engine and refill with 4 qt.s trans fluid (Dexron or type II fluid). Shift trans back and forth park to low range several times, put in park and check fluid. Should be OK to drive. If bottom of pan is cruddy and contains metal filings, something bad is wrong and needs further service or replaced.
That is what the seat is supposed to do. It is called cocooning. You just need to make sure you have less than one inch of movement at the belt path (where the seatbelt or LATCH strap goes through the seat.
I've had 3 different seats and have had similar problems with all of them, they shouldn't move, my mother in law had the fire department install the one in her car, and it doesn't budge. I can't personally accomplish this feat myself, but can get it pretty stable. Try putting the carseat in the middle of the back seat instead of off to one side, the lap belt does a better job of holding it down than the shoulder belt, and it's also the safest place in the car for the car seat. Best of luck to you, definatly have someone else put it in if that is a viable option for you.
As you've heard previously from other posters, the movement you're talking about is what its supposed to do. To test that the seat is installed correctly, grab the base at the belt path - where the LATCH (that's what those hookups inthe car are called) strap goes through it, and try and move side to side and front to back. If it doesn't move or moves less than 1, its installed well. Do not try and lift the base off the seat, it messes up the positioning. If it doesn't install well (less than 1 of movement at belt path) with LATCH, try and use the seatbelt to install and see if you get a better install. LATCH is NOT safer than seatbelts, use whichever gives you the best install. And its important to note that you can not use LATCH in the middle position, only on outboard positions. And do get it checked. The can check your installation and if its incorrect, show you how to get it right.
you can buy a maintenenc manual at a parts store like autozone but you can buy a flushing fluid and run it in your tranny and then you would drain all the fluid by a drain plug not all cars have a plug in this case you remove pan the filter is just inside the pan you would change it when you have the pan off and then put pan back on and fill tranny with engine running and in park
