"Easy Car Seats", have you seen this product?

CTPDMom · Mar 31, 2011

It's a booster, not a car seat...

http://easycarseat.com/

Someone on another board just posted they think this would be GREAT for flying!

MommyBoha · Mar 31, 2011

great for flying to my death... LOL

ctbcleveland · Mar 31, 2011

Someone should alert clek that they are using their photos in the marketing. If I were Clek, I'd be pissed because people might assume the companies are related.

CTPDMom · Mar 31, 2011

ctbcleveland said:
Someone should alert clek that they are using their photos in the marketing. If I were Clek, I'd be pissed because people might assume the companies are related.

Can you link me what pics you're referring to?

ctbcleveland · Mar 31, 2011

CTPDMom said:
Can you link me what pics you're referring to?

http://easycarseat.com/

For me - it appears right on the home page. It is a stick figure sitting on a CLEK booster (Paul Frank pattern) and another booster next to it.

ctbcleveland · Mar 31, 2011

And another link in-case my search engine has something to do with how I got there. This should be a direct image link through google images.

http://easycarseat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/English_Frontpage.png

TechnoGranola · Mar 31, 2011

It says right on the page that it's designed to work with 3 point belts and approved for use in a vehicle. So, I hope people realize it can't be used on an airplane.

That being said, the web site *implies* airplane use by stating how great it is for travel and even showing an airplane in their video. They mean to take with you to destinations, but to consumers, it appears it can be used on an airplane. Also, they don't appear to explicitly state that it is not approved for airplane use. In their FAQ they have a page that shows each countries rules for whether or not car seats can be used on the plane. Why bother with that if this isn't approved for airplane use? Just tell people that. Making them read the rules is just going to confuse them.

CTPDMom · Mar 31, 2011

ctbcleveland said:
For me - it appears right on the home page. It is a stick figure sitting on a CLEK booster (Paul Frank pattern) and another booster next to it.

Yes, yes, now I see it! I was looking at what the children were sitting in in the photos and didn't see any Clek's there.

TechnoGranola said:
It says right on the page that it's designed to work with 3 point belts, so anyone who thinks they can use it on the plane, has not read the web site.

I think there are many people who have no clue that you can't use a booster on a plane, or why.

TechnoGranola · Mar 31, 2011

CTPDMom said:
I think there are many people who have no clue that you can't use a booster on a plane, or why.

I was editing while you replied.

Hopefully the airlines know that rule at least so could stop anyone from using it that brings it along. I know when I flew a year and half ago, the airline staff told a couple folks that their boosters couldn't be used; that they needed a harness. They offered to gate check the seat for them (since we were already at boarding point) since they couldn't use it on the flight.

joolsplus3 · Mar 31, 2011

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=165229

Kat_Momof3 · Mar 31, 2011

the idea is good (bubblebum pulls it off), but the way they followed through is NOT... because the belt fit will not be good (much like the Laroche Boosters) in the shoulder area.

anyway... here's crash test videos posted by them... I can't imagine how this thing passed... it's scary if you watch the lap portion - http://www.youtube.com/user/easycarseat#p/u/4/Sg6-BeERyEw
http://www.youtube.com/user/easycarseat#p/u/13/n_3ZZEMAj68

NicoleCPST · Mar 31, 2011

HOLY submarine!!!

Victorious4 · Mar 31, 2011

Yes yes! I take all my safety advice from TV & radio presenters!

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Qarin · Mar 31, 2011

Have to say, the very last thing I'm concerned about, safety-wise, with this booster seat is someone using it with the lap-belt on an airplane.

msg221 · Mar 31, 2011

I saw a Safe Kids tech posted on the CPSPList asking if anyone else knows anything. She posted this link:

http://easycarseat.com/ready-in-1-minute-3/

Holy crap I about died when I saw that first kid get into that convertible seat that he looks like he outgrew about five years ago!!! They are trying to market this inflatable booster seat as being safe and having passed all of the testing while demonstrating about the worst car seat misuse ever between an outgrown seat and the big puffy jacket (not that he would have been able to fit in that harness anyway)? Oh, and check the totally unbuckled kid toward the end of the video!

I can't imagine anyone wanting to put their kid in this!

mommy-medic · Mar 31, 2011

Maybe it's cause I'm on my phone, but at the bottom of their website it says you can click the icon to see their fmvss 213 certificate but all it does is open the graphic/icon.

Calleiah · Mar 31, 2011

Jeeze, I cant believe it passed anything after seeing the crash video.

mommy2alittlesunshine · Mar 31, 2011

All I could think of watching the video was "in case of a water landing your seat becomes a floatation device". My dh is a commercial airline pilot so we travel a lot

I can't imagine ever using that thing...I will take a lite rider for travel with my almost 7 year old any day.

Evolily · Mar 31, 2011

if that video is passing we don't need to be talking about this car seat, but rather WTH the NTHSA is measuring when it tests boosters.

jjordan · Apr 4, 2011

Some of you probably already saw this, but today Alisa Baer shared a blog link where she wrote about this. Here is the blog; looks like she thinks the seat is bad news (and no, it didnt pass the FMVSS213 crash tests!).

"Easy Car Seats", have you seen this product?

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