ISOFIX mounting is a modern mount that is equipped with children’s car seats of advanced manufacturers. Also, this mount is simultaneously the standard of quality accepted as mandatory in the territory of the European Union. The ISO 13216 document of the International Organization of Standards, describes in detail all the requirements of this type of fastening.
ISOFIX are equipped with seats of 0/0+ and 1 age groups, the creator and company for the first time introduced this unique attachment system into everyday life, is the German corporation Romer, together with the Volkswagen auto giant.
The main criteria that guided the manufacturers at the initial stage were:
– Ease of installation and operation
– collision safety
– reliability and stiffness of the structure in general
– Comfort in everyday use
Let’s look in more detail whether the actual coincides with what the manufacturers wanted at the earliest stages.
Reliability and rigidity
The first criterion that was nominated by designers and was completely embodied in the future. ISOFIX children’s car seats have a very durable and rigid connection with car seats. The fastening itself consists of two parts: a pair of brackets and a pair of special strips located directly the back of the seat and on the power frame of the car. Thus, when fixing the Romer car seat in the car, you attach it not on belts and sitting, as it was before, but directly on the car frame, which creates an unprecedented degree of rigidity and reliability.
The reliability of ISOFIX is also explained by the fact that the mounting principle is very simple, and confusing something when installing, in principle, it is impossible. As statistics shows, children’s car seats fixed with the help of basic seat belts, in sixty cases are established with errors, which entails all kinds of problems, and sometimes turns into a tragedy. In cases with ISOFIX, the percentage of incorrect installation is reduced to about 10. This was achieved due to the introduction into the design, namely, on the connecting nodes of the sensors showing the correctness of fixing the chair, the degree of tension of the belts, the angle of inclination and other important points.
The uniqueness and security of this mount is also evidenced by the fact that the level of the whole state, such as the European Union, the government obliged all car manufacturers, equip new units of equipment with everything necessary for the use of children’s car seats with ISOFIX.
Many people ask the question: “Is there ISOFIX mount in my car?”. We will try to answer this question.
ISOFIX mounts are equipped with new European -made cars, almost all modern Asian cars and some American. So, for example, the Chevrolet concern has been equipping the ISOFIX Lacetti line since 2004, in Daewoo cars this type of fastening is provided in some models such as Matiz since June 2005, and of course all Volkswagen cars produced after 2000. Unfortunately, cars produced in Russian factories, this applies not only to AvtoVAZ, is not equipped with this system, the reason for this is incomprehensible. According to the assumptions, the press of the center of the largest domestic automaker, models of 2011, will certainly be equipped with everything necessary for the safe transportation of the child in the car, well, we will wait.
As for the cars produced in the United States, many of them have installed a system, an analogue of ISOFIX called Latch. Latch is a mandatory system, as well as the European system, its fundamental difference from the latter is that it is based on two fastening points, while Europeans use a belt with a carbine. American standards, by analogy with European, share children’s car seats in weight or age groups, depending on what will be earlier. So, there are models for children up to a year or 9 kilograms, and so on, as well as, in some cases, the growth of the child matters.
In the modern world, when the density of road transport in large cities was equal to the density of the population, and the complexity and danger of driving only increases annually, the use of children’s car seats in the event that you have a small child simply necessary. Fortunately, the state took care to make the use of seats mandatory, it would be nice to equip domestic cars with advanced attaching children’s car seats, since a large percentage of compatriots simply cannot afford expensive foreign cars whose manufacturers take care of the child’s safety in the car interior. But, I want to believe that in the near future everything will change.