Side Rider question

[Rachels]

How do you work the *&$^@#! clips?! I finally ordered one of these, and there are no instructions and I can't get the dang things open. I'm not a technical wizard, but to be utterly stumped by some little metal clips is embarrassing. Rescue me, please!

-Rachel
Mom to Abigail Rose
5/18/02
New baby coming in October!
(Holy smokes, it's a boy!!!)


"When you know better, you do better."
Maya Angelou
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Nursed for three years!

[Joolsplus2]

Strong, aren't they? Little beast broke my fingernail...which is saying a lot, since I bite my nails really short!

Hmmm... I'm trying to remember the trick... they are like suspender clips...or are you too young to have had a pair of rainbow Mork from Ork suspenders in 1982? ROFL! There's that smoother metal top flap that has to come up so the toothy-grippy jaws will open... You just have to work that top flap with something.. butterknife?.. to get it open.

I haven't had mine in awhile, maybe someone that still has theirs has a better handle on the situation and will chime in :D.

Hey, at least you know they won't come off your seat! (didn't damage my cover either, yay!)
Julie CPS Tech and mom to 2 in seats
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[kellyotn]

I pried them open with a butterknife. They are just too darn tight for a regular human fingernail! ;-) Take the butterknife to the car, because invariably you will snap it on to the seat in the wrong place and need to adjust it. ;-) They do loosen up a bit, but are still very very difficult to open w/o a tool of some sort.