scarletpastel
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I have a good idea on which carseats are good, but which one's would you NOT buy or NEVER purchase again?
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Any 3 in 1 car seat, like the Cosco Alpha Omega Elite or the Eddie Bauer 3 in 1...Stay away from them! lol RF limits are only to 35 & then it harnesses only to 40lbs & then turns into a pitiful excuse for a booster with hardly any harness height/room period. I bought it with just a little research going in & would never buy anything like this again! And on top of all of that Install isn't the best either.
(Sorry if anyone has a 3 in 1 like this, I used mine for a yr so I did get some use out of it but not as much as I should have been able to for what I paid for it)
But the "3 in 1" nautilus is good, right? Just not the 3 in 1 rf convertible to booster seats? Just making sure I understand correctly.
Any infant seat with a "back adjust" harness.
On a side note it's a pet peeve of mine that Graco and Safety first seems to make these in some of the cutest covers... what gives?
Honestly, just like we all have our favorites, we all have our least-favorites. What I think "sucks" may be very different than what someone else thinks "sucks". I will say that I think the 40# Dorel 3-in-1 seats are probably the most likely to be misused, since they really only fit kids from about 15#-35# (don't fit little babies RFing, outgrown by height way too soon FFing, and don't work as boosters) but are advertised for 5#-100#, and for that reason, they're on my poop list.
Yeah the GN is good...when most people refer to a 3 in 1, it's the RF'ing, FF'ing then poor excuse for a booster
I will say, I don't like that the GN is called a 3 in 1. I'm on another site and have had to explain to multiple people (that are not car seat crazy) that this seat is not good for their 7 month old, it's not a RF'ing seat, just a FF'ing seat. Everyone there said they didn't even realize that. It needs another name IMO.
Thanks! I agree about the name. I also find their minimum limits appalling. They are encouraging ff at 1 year and 20 pounds and are they kidding saying you can use it as a booster at only 3 years and 30 pounds?! That means my little 3 year old could use this as a booster?! I don't think so! A lot of people out there don't realize this is not a good idea and Graco (who does know better!) is giving people who do not know better and are not prone towards research really bad ideas. I told the rep I talked on the phone at Graco but he didn't have anything to say and I doubt he passed on my comments (the whole reason I woud say anything, to encourage change). (sorry for the rant)
Graco isn't encouraging it; they're being realistic about the fact that most people don't rear-face beyond 1 year and 20 lbs. Graco actually does a lot to promote extended rear-facing. (They were the first company to come out with a 40-lb RF seat, and the SafeSeat/SR32/SR35 is the longest-lasting infant seat and will get most kids well beyond 1 and 20).
The Britax Frontier has a 2 year minimum age on it, but that doesn't mean that people don't ignore it. If people actually read boxes and labels, there would probably be a lot less misuse.
I'd rather see a 1-year-old FF in a Nautilus (or Frontier) than FF in something that will be outgrown in another year.
I'm so sorry. I did not mean any offense. Really it was the booster minimum I was really upset about because a lot of people really do not know that is not a good idea at that age/size. Again, so sorry.
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