Will I regret this purchase?

[Caseylaine]

I was in a car accident a while back (no one hurt!) and so our old Radian was written off, and we were able to buy a new one. There is only one store in my city that sells them and so I decided that we should buy two (getting a small discount) one for each of our cars. DS is outgrowing his Cosco Alpha Omega Elite (dont even get me started on this seat, I bought it before I knew any better).

SO we bought two Radian's in the Supercool option... because I've seen the other one (got my SIL to buy it) and I dont really like the way it looks like crushed velvet/velour. They had to be ordered in, and will be here in the next week.

But now I hear that the Supercool snags easy... AND then I found that they are selling the Graco Nautilus which I originally wanted to get to replace the AOE.

One other thing, we just recently found out that we're expecting another baby in Sept (fingers crossed)... so its not like I couldn't eventually move a baby to the Radians and buy Nautilus' later on, if they are still the choice seat for 5pt harness- booster.

SO, long winded here.

Do you think I'll regret the purchase of 2 Supercools? Should I have gotten the other one instead? I'd love the Princess print... but I have a boy.. ;)

Are extra covers available to buy in Canada yet?

[featherhead]

The Supercool comes with the infant padding, right? It might be nice to have that once you pass the Radians down to the baby. I don't know if you used your old Radian for rear-facing at all, but I love mine for rear-facing. So I guess I wouldn't regret getting Radians, and maybe if you don't like the covers you can post them in swap or something.

[Caseylaine]

I did use his Radian RF'ing for about a year and I really liked it. I really love everything about the Radian, and haven't had any trouble with it. I believe it does come with the padding since its the new seat.

I just got all panicky about the snagging cover, and paying quite a chunk for two seats when my original plan was to get one new Radian and one Nautilus..

We will end up using them and DS is small-ish so he'll be in the Radian for a long time yet. And if we do have this new baby then its all good... as long as the covers dont look like a cat mauled them after a month of use.

[shauburg]

DS's Radian is Supercool and about the only thing that you really have to watch out for with snagging is velcro.

When DS was under a year the velcro on the straps roughed up the infant body support pillow quite a bit. But now that DS is using it as a toddler head pillow he doesn't complain that it scratches his face or anything! Other than this issue (which admitedly I should have been more diligent in preventing) we really like the Supercool cover!
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