hipmaman
08-01-2008, 12:05 AM
Just in case people are wondering why I'm looking at infant carseats :) Not expecting at all, but just doing my 'public service' duty to try and review carseats for ya :whistle:
So I managed to get to Zellers to check the First Yrs Via infant carseat out. Well, my Zellers does not have it! They didn't even know what seat I was talking about :( Totally unfriendly staff too :mad:
So in the car we went to TRU to check out the Safety 1st SureFit. They had the Maxi-Cosi Mico, Graco SnugRide, Graco SafeSeat 1, Peg Primo Viaggio and Evenflo (I can't remember the name aghrrr :mad:) on the same shelf, so I had a few pictures taken. I figured... great.... lots of seats to compare the SureFit to and baby was in a good mood to model :thumbsup:
NOT....
The harness was too low so I wanted to change slots and take proper pictures. Ummm, the base and the seat were stuck and could not be detached. Oh well, I'll have her try it out w/o harnessing then. Then one harness straps just fell out of the slot. Dunno if it was not properly set in the yoke or if the yoke was one of those with wide gap and straps can fairly easy fall out. But I couldn't check because the base and the seat were stuck, remember! :mad:
So I started to measure the slots height. Got the first lowest set. Wait, Trudy and Julie said the slots in the fabric and the shell were badly misaligned. Ahhh, I see how bad now :eek: I went on taking measurements with my fingers inserted into the fabric slots to ensure of the actual slots in the shell. Got 1, got 2, got 3, got... wait, where was the 4th one, the tallest set? WTH?!?!
At this point, I knew I couldn't really do a good review, so let's settle with sorting out the slots misalignment issue. Well, it didn't go so well. It turned out the plastic shell, the foam and the fabric were so badly aligned that the foam was totally covering the top slots and the fabric shows the top slots higher, but in fact it was much lower (at the very least - 0.5" lower for the actual slots on the shell) and the foam slots were lower than the actual slots. I started to take the cover off (as much off as I could without have the staff evicting me :) :rolleyes: )
Needless to say, I got so discourage and disappointed (I wonder why I would be since I have not had a good experience with Safety 1st carseat before). I left with some pictures to show ya.
Off to load them now.
So I managed to get to Zellers to check the First Yrs Via infant carseat out. Well, my Zellers does not have it! They didn't even know what seat I was talking about :( Totally unfriendly staff too :mad:
So in the car we went to TRU to check out the Safety 1st SureFit. They had the Maxi-Cosi Mico, Graco SnugRide, Graco SafeSeat 1, Peg Primo Viaggio and Evenflo (I can't remember the name aghrrr :mad:) on the same shelf, so I had a few pictures taken. I figured... great.... lots of seats to compare the SureFit to and baby was in a good mood to model :thumbsup:
NOT....
The harness was too low so I wanted to change slots and take proper pictures. Ummm, the base and the seat were stuck and could not be detached. Oh well, I'll have her try it out w/o harnessing then. Then one harness straps just fell out of the slot. Dunno if it was not properly set in the yoke or if the yoke was one of those with wide gap and straps can fairly easy fall out. But I couldn't check because the base and the seat were stuck, remember! :mad:
So I started to measure the slots height. Got the first lowest set. Wait, Trudy and Julie said the slots in the fabric and the shell were badly misaligned. Ahhh, I see how bad now :eek: I went on taking measurements with my fingers inserted into the fabric slots to ensure of the actual slots in the shell. Got 1, got 2, got 3, got... wait, where was the 4th one, the tallest set? WTH?!?!
At this point, I knew I couldn't really do a good review, so let's settle with sorting out the slots misalignment issue. Well, it didn't go so well. It turned out the plastic shell, the foam and the fabric were so badly aligned that the foam was totally covering the top slots and the fabric shows the top slots higher, but in fact it was much lower (at the very least - 0.5" lower for the actual slots on the shell) and the foam slots were lower than the actual slots. I started to take the cover off (as much off as I could without have the staff evicting me :) :rolleyes: )
Needless to say, I got so discourage and disappointed (I wonder why I would be since I have not had a good experience with Safety 1st carseat before). I left with some pictures to show ya.
Off to load them now.