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Porsche Baby Seat

I am not responsible for any problems you experience as a result of trying to do anything described here. The hack documented here worked fine for me but may not work for you far any number of reasons.

Once again this is less of a hack than documenting the installation of a product. In this case it's a Porsche Convertible Car Seat (PNA-986-025-01). There are two models made, one a regular good up to 20lbs and a convertible good up to 40lbs. Since my baby was about 18lbs when I had it installed I spent the extra few $$$ for the seat that I would get more life from.

First some background. I seriously considered trading my Boxster in for a more appropriate car but I eventually decided just to keep the car and get an appropriate car seat for the car. In this case I decided on the Porsche car seat only because it's the only way to get the airbag deactivation device installed. This is the ONLY safe way to have a baby seat in the front of the car. Porsche would not sell me the deactivation device separately, I had to buy a seat with the device. The installation of the device was free.

IMPORTANT: Call around as one dealer I spoke to wanted to charge me 1 hour of labor to install it but other dealers said that the installation is included. Shop around!

Overall I'm happy with the product. The car is is actually just a Britax Roundabout car seat with the addition of a buckle that plugs into the airbag deactivation device, different color fabric and of course a tiny PORSCHE logo. This car seat sell for about $230 in stores, not cheap compared to other brands, but Porsche still has a decent mark-up on their seat.
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