Cosco Arriva with "plastic" Buckle?!?

[cantech]

I went to check out our new Walmart this morning and of course had to check the car seats.

I was looking at the Cosco Arriva infant seat and noticed a new (to me) style of buckle release on the harness system. It's more of a lever action than a push button, you pushed at the top part of the release and the bottom part lifted up. What really amazed me was the buckle tongues...they're made of plastic not metal!!! And Nope I haven't confused them with the chest clip it was the harness buckle. It gets better though...not only are they plastic, they're of the "puzzle" variety.

Is this new or just new to me? IIRC the DOM was Dec. 06

Anyone have any hands on experience with them? If so, how are they working out?


BTW we need a smilie scratching their head

Belinda

Curious to see what you may have to say...

Belinda

 

[Jeanum]

Interesting. The Baby Trend Latch Loc infant seat I used for DD2 had plastic buckle tongues and a puzzle buckle. The plastic buckle tongues surprised me at first because I hadn't seen plastic ones before on other seats. The puzzle buckle was kind of a pain until I got used to it, but I liked the seat otherwise.

 

[mominabigtruck]

IMO the arriva is a piece of crap and I have no idea why they're still making them. I know what you're talking about, I think they're the same type of buckles cosco uses on their preemie seats so I don't know if they had an excessive of them or what. Our walmart doesn't sell them anymore but they're the seat they hand out at the hospital if you don't have one.

 

[Dillipop]

i had a designer 22 with them for a few months. DOM 07/05

 

[southpawboston]

I
BTW we need a smilie scratching their head

like this?

there's a few emoticons i'd like to see added.

 

[cantech]

Southpaw,

That's exactly what I meant

Belinda

 

[southpawboston]

you could try PMing the admin to see if he can add a few to the current assortment... but i can also see wanting to limit the number of emoticons... it can get messy! (i've got a bunch in my own webspace that i just link to if i can't find one that fits the occassion)

 

[joolsplus3]

There was the Latch Loc and one or two other seats that have had this buckle...the Combi Centre, too. I think IMMI makes them? They're weird, but I'm sure they are tested to the hilt (I wonder if they stuck the one year old dummy in one of those infant seats FF? People DO use those seats that way, so I'd like to excuse the plastic buckle as 'only on RF seats where the harness doesn't do much anyway' but that innocent baby with the stupid parent ff'ing them in their infant seat oughta be protected, too, so I HOPE they are tested FF!)

 

[Splash]

Even if the buckles held up, the harness would rip through the shell. Plus there is no way to secure it FF. So... I don't really see the need to make them work FF, when the whole shebang would fail spectacularly if someone tried to use it that way.

 

[joolsplus3]

THIS is why we need our own test bench facility...to appease our aching curiosity about the outcome of every possible imaginable misuse (I mean, are you SURE that, say, a bungee cord going through the lapbelt hooks on an infant seat FF and attached to the LATCH anchors really wouldn't exceed head and knee excursion limits for FF seats? Toss some two by fours under it, because that 2 year old would probably want to sit up more, you know)

 

[Splash]

Well if the forward facing rear facing back seat front seat super glued seatbelt kid lived....

 

[lynsgirl]

THIS is why we need our own test bench facility...to appease our aching curiosity about the outcome of every possible imaginable misuse (I mean, are you SURE that, say, a bungee cord going through the lapbelt hooks on an infant seat FF and attached to the LATCH anchors really wouldn't exceed head and knee excursion limits for FF seats? Toss some two by fours under it, because that 2 year old would probably want to sit up more, you know)

Oh heck, it could be like some crazy thrilling amusement park ride, no?
And we really all should just start a fund for this test bench facility lol.

Amy
CPST and Mom to 4 great kids, all in seats