TechnoGranola
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The following video is shared here often as why not to use an expired seat. It's supposed to be an example of a harness ripping through the shell of an expired Britax seat.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCRz7BRAM0"]Car seat expiration - YouTube[/ame]
It was in another thread today and I have questions about it so figured I'd start a new thread. It's been said that this is a 10 year old Britax that the harness straps rip out of on the crash test. And it's implied that the purpose of the test was to test how the seat would perform being expired.
Now, the YouTube link doesn't say anything about the crash test. There is no audio in the video either. So where is the information about what crash test was being performed here, what seat it is, who did the crash test, etc. etc.?
In another thread I mentioned that I didn't think it was a U.S. seat. The TV station logo appears to be from the UK. In that same thread, another poster said she though this seat might be a 4 point harness which was available in Europe in that time frame. And that maybe the harness wasn't breaking in the video, but that the dummy slips like that due to it being a 4 point harness.
The video goes so fast, that it's really hard to tell what's happening without a written or audio description by the people who did the crash test, as to what the purpose was and what the pre-conditions were. I do see something flap near the top of the seat, but is that the harness?
Anyway, please discuss! And if anyone has a link to actual information about this video, I would love to read more about what's going on in this test.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCRz7BRAM0"]Car seat expiration - YouTube[/ame]
It was in another thread today and I have questions about it so figured I'd start a new thread. It's been said that this is a 10 year old Britax that the harness straps rip out of on the crash test. And it's implied that the purpose of the test was to test how the seat would perform being expired.
Now, the YouTube link doesn't say anything about the crash test. There is no audio in the video either. So where is the information about what crash test was being performed here, what seat it is, who did the crash test, etc. etc.?
In another thread I mentioned that I didn't think it was a U.S. seat. The TV station logo appears to be from the UK. In that same thread, another poster said she though this seat might be a 4 point harness which was available in Europe in that time frame. And that maybe the harness wasn't breaking in the video, but that the dummy slips like that due to it being a 4 point harness.
The video goes so fast, that it's really hard to tell what's happening without a written or audio description by the people who did the crash test, as to what the purpose was and what the pre-conditions were. I do see something flap near the top of the seat, but is that the harness?
Anyway, please discuss! And if anyone has a link to actual information about this video, I would love to read more about what's going on in this test.