EvenFlo Embrace

kpayne · Mar 12, 2007

My Embrace is moving more than an inch from side to side

and I have tried reinstalling it. THe latch is tight!!! the level is correct ... I have installed it in the center. I Don't know what is wrong! When my son was first born I had the seat installed at the fire station! they installed it outboard... my Ped. told me that it is safer for the seat to be in the center for side impact. What should my next move be?

emandbri · Mar 12, 2007

hum when you had it installed did they try it in the middle? Do you have a hump there? Maybe the installers couldn't get a good fit in the middle which is why they put it on the side. A tight install on the side is better then a lose install in the middle.

joolsplus3 · Mar 12, 2007

kpayne said:
My Embrace is moving more than an inch from side to side and I have tried reinstalling it. THe latch is tight!!! the level is correct ... I have installed it in the center. I Don't know what is wrong! When my son was first born I had the seat installed at the fire station! they installed it outboard... my Ped. told me that it is safer for the seat to be in the center for side impact. What should my next move be?

Are you *allowed* to install it in the middle with LATCH? Only a few cars allow that. What car do you have?

(The LATCH anchors MUST be approved, and they MUST be 11 inches apart, no wider for it to be safely installed with LATCH in the center). The ped SHOULD have told you that a PROPER install is more important than which position it's in (even outboard seating positions are remarkably safe for rearfacing babies, so if it only works outboard, then that's where it should be, don't second guess the techs who helped you install it, they may know more than your ped).

rlsadc · Mar 12, 2007

getting a good install is much more important than installing it in the center anyday...keep in mind that the ENTIRE back seat is the safest place for baby, and while statistically the center is the safest seat out of the three in the rear, the outboard positions are very safe as well. quite honestly, the embrace isnt the easiet base to install, so you can also try taking it to a local CPS and maybe they can help.

kpayne · Mar 12, 2007

I have a 2005 honda civic... I read the cars manual and thought that it had said the middle is ok... I will have to read it again!

yes there is a small hump I believe!

I don't know if it was a true tech... my mom took it there on thanksgiving day. So I don't know if it was a tech or a firefighter? I was still in the hospital waiting to be released!

kpayne · Mar 12, 2007

I just read my manual again! I can only use the latch outboard!!

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