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Adorkable said:thanks for the confirmation, i was pretty sure, but as a mom who cleaned up puke 3 times this week, i was nervous at the mere thought!
im seriously thinking of buying the drift and putting the saved 25 bucks towards a retrofit kit, that way i could get the great solid colors and the black base, i still beg of you guys to offer this combo!!!! i really think folks would really be excited about it.
I'm also thinking that i will sew i very custom fitted headrest cover, maybe with each my kids names embroidered in it. this will keep the head rest extra clean since i cant fully wash it and also let me have matching plastic with whatever front color i end up with if i really swap them out. figure nobody can claim that a headrest cover will hurt any safety feature. (well i'm sure someone will claim something but i feel ok no paying attention that kind of person)
i am very excited to get my two foonfs!
do you have any timeline idea for the retrofit kits coming out? do you intent to bring them out fast or happen to know that it is a next summer type thing?
Adorkable said:Are you joking? I'm on camera somewhere aren't I? I did say someone would find a way to have a problem, just didn't think it would be so fast!
First of all it is because I'm spending nearly $1000 dollars (on 2) that I will cover the headrests! My kids puke as I have mentioned clearly, and headrests get grabbed all the time by both parent and kid, the are bound to be dirty. Since they can't be put in the wash, a custom pillow case as it were is the next best answer. A waterproof one (vomit proof) all the better.
Second of all, no one in their right mind is going to tell me that I pillowcase thin cover, properly sewn on the HEADREST of a carseat, no where near the mechanisms of the seat or harness, will hinder the safety of it in any way what so ever. If you are claiming that, you need to think it thru. There is safety and there is brainwashed paranoia, I hope you misunderstood what my plans were or I misunderstood your reply.
Adorkable said:Are you joking? I'm on camera somewhere aren't I? I did say someone would find a way to have a problem, just didn't think it would be so fast!
First of all it is because I'm spending nearly $1000 dollars (on 2) that I will cover the headrests! My kids puke as I have mentioned clearly, and headrests get grabbed all the time by both parent and kid, the are bound to be dirty. Since they can't be put in the wash, a custom pillow case as it were is the next best answer. A waterproof one (vomit proof) all the better.
Second of all, no one in their right mind is going to tell me that I pillowcase thin cover, properly sewn on the HEADREST of a carseat, no where near the mechanisms of the seat or harness, will hinder the safety of it in any way what so ever. If you are claiming that, you need to think it thru. There is safety and there is brainwashed paranoia, I hope you misunderstood what my plans were or I misunderstood your reply.
oh like i said i fully intend to buy the crypton fabric, i just prefer it on a black base so since i was thinking i would retrofit to the color of crypton fabric i want, i should buy the cheapest seat that has the frame color i want since the cover would be taken off right away anyway., that would be the black based drift and then pay for the upgrade retrofit to the pink and blue crypton fabric. yeah i very much agree that the crypton fabric is a hugh selling point to the whole seat. frankly i think it is silly they are making one without it to make a seat that is 25 bucks less, i doubt that anyone willing to pay 450 for a seat would do so, but not pay 475 for a better version of the same seat! as i have read about the foonf all this year, the thing i seem to here over and over again is the wish that the black was crypton.I think if your kids puke all the time it would be more than worth it to spend an extra $25 on the crypton fabric
Adorkable, we are all going to say it is against the rules, because it is. I don't know a tech who is going to say it is ever ok to alter a seat in ANY way. We will say, though, that it is your choice to make an informed parental decision.
Just my two cents. None of us are after anyone. You seem very defensive and there is no reason for it. You knew what was going to be said. That last statement about a camera was completely uncalled for and absolutely ridiculous.
ETA: even some of us make, or have made informed parental decisions. Doesn't mean we aren't going to state the rules.
Since you appear to want a reason and safety isnt enough, heres one.
What if something happens and your seat isnt preforming properly. You want a refund or a replacement. The company is going to say "oh you added something not approved? Good luck were not paying for anything." Is that a good reason?
so your telling me that every single person that has ever put a piddle pad on their seat, or draped a towel over it on hot day or any of the other things are all going to talk to someone and get turned away? or frankly would even bother to mention those things when talking to a company rep? im not talking about a aftermarket cover for the seat here folks, can we have a reality check?
im not meaning to be confrontational at all, and the other thread is a completely different thing and was started exactly so that i could A. Vent (i even labeled it as such)and then B. learn and see if there was something i was not thinking about and i thought the talk was going really well. i knew plain well what i was talking about in the other thread was pushing against something that in some cases is truly dangerous for our kids and not allowed with good reason.
but if anyone here is actually saying that a "pillow case" for the headrest is actually making my kids even .001% less safe, i will stand behind my assertion that they dont understand the real life physic of the situation.
yeah, i agree the lawyers don't like it because they have to draw the line at the cleanest point, no after market anything, heck am shocked they allow your kid to wear clothes! (slightly joking, but only slightly)
but if anyone here is actually saying that a "pillow case" for the headrest is actually making my kids even .001% less safe, i will stand behind my assertion that they dont understand the real life physic of the situation.
Adorkable said:i completely get that issues you folks are talking about, but remember, thankfully i was not looking for or asking for approval in this thread.
(in minor contrast i was asking for some brainstorming in the other thread about total aftermarket seat covers, i very much agree that is a very different level of subject)
and i also really get that lowest common denominator concept that dictates so much of life nowadays, made worse cause everyone thinks that they are not that lowest wrung, when clearly some folks are going to be wrong with that assumption.
I happen to be formally trained in Industrial Design including a fair bit of focus on Product Ergonomics and have about 25 years of pattern making and sewing under my belt, so I feel pretty good about the place I come from in my thinking. Of course they is no way for you all to know that about me.
I guess where I may have gone wrong here the most was to treat this too much like some of the forums where I post on other subjects. Forums that do work on projects together and openly brainstorm on making things or modding things. Modding is in my nature, hence the industrial design schooling.
There are instructions on a box of toothpicks for a reason, sad as that is.
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