Downfalls? and other Questions

Our friends, who are foster parents, are in the market for a new seat as their faithful scenera will be expiring this year. They only take birth to two year olds (and rarely do the kids get much past 2 before they are moved on to be reunified, adopted, relative placement, etc). They have 2 KF30 for the littles so they are looking for a new convertible. They practice ERF and usually have the kids for at least a month or so, so changing harness height isn't a big deal to them. They drive a Toyota Sienna (05 I believe) with captains chairs. The seats I recommended to them are:
My Ride
Compete Air
Radian
True Fit/True Fit Premier
(I am also willing to sell them my MA so I can start swapping out seats for the noob!)

I know the positives for most of the seats and I will go with them to BRU to play (and they can use my radian to play with). I did read the thread about the downfalls of the complete air, and I know the harness isn't universally liked on the True Fit and I own the radian and am well aware of the downfalls of that seat. What about the My Ride? Are there any other seats that should be on their list? Price isn't really a concern since they will most likely use the seat until expiration (and if they happen to have a gigantor kid, I have plenty of seats to loan...)

Having own/ed every seat on that list except the CA I would have to pick the MR. It fits just about anywhere, it is easy to install, has plenty of harness options, the adjuster doesn't get buried, the straps stay even and only the most exceptionally tall two year old won't fit RF in it. Plus, out of all those seats, it is DD2's favorite. This is the frst time in all my years of buying carseats (13 years now!) that I have had two of the same seat

Yup, I'd go MyRide. The only downfall of the MR is it is quite wide (but puzzles well with a Radian:thumbsup.

What weight does the MR go up to FF? (Cuz it would be so nice to only have to leave one of my seats when they don't have a toddler for C to use when he is there. )

scoutingbear said:

What weight does the MR go up to FF? (Cuz it would be so nice to only have to leave one of my seats when they don't have a toddler for C to use when he is there. )

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65 but the vast majority of kids would get too tall before that. Benjamin is too tall for it and he is 6 and 50 lbs.

here is a picture of him in it.
http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=85113&highlight=ride


I say sell them a marathon or buy a complete air. I am not happy with how the my ride installs rear-facing in my 04 sienna and I can get the radian in but it is very hard.

It goes to 65 lbs FF.
It's a My Ride 65

obamamama said:

It goes to 65 lbs FF.
It's a My Ride 65

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I'm just glad I didn't type MR for my friend's instead of My Ride.