Jonah Baby
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I own/have owned 3 Britax convertibles in my carseat experience.
In general, I've noticed that they are obnoxiously big and just don't fit in the smaller cars well. When the seat takes up the entire space from vehicle seat to near roof, installation is quite difficult, you see.
Installing the top tether? Pfft. The tether adjuster ALWAYS makes its way behind the shell JUST as you tighten the thing down.
I've never paid for a Britax, so at least I can't complain on that regard.
Crotch buckles. WTF.
I swear the crotch buckles on these things get sticky if you look at them funny. Maybe it has been my seats, but none of them have ever "clicked", they just kinda "smoosh" and lock in...sometimes. I always give a few pulls on them as every 1 out of 3 uses a clip will come back out.
Who decided to make the damn crotch strap so short? I have to LOOSEN the harness to buckle him because I don't have enough space for my hand AND manipulating the teeny little crotch strap to get it buckled.
Headwings.
Aren't these supposed to help prevent head slump? Or, in the least, help surround a child's head in the event of a crash?
So...why does J's head slump to his chest as soon as he falls asleep? If we got in a side-impact accident like that, his neck would totally be snapped against the headwings. It is truly annoying to pull over and flop my kid's head back where it belongs every 5 miles.
Expiration.
I swear, my Wizard just hit its last 3 weeks of life, and EVERYTHING on this seat began to malfunction.
The headwings/harness will no longer raise properly. I checked the track, it's fine. It's like it stripped out or something all of a sudden.
Neither crotch buckle wants to lock. I've soaked this plenty of times with no luck.
One LATCH clip has decided it no longer wants to latch.
One FF lock-off completely snapped off, the other no longer locks for some reason unknown to me.
The seat is junk and I don't understand how it KNEW it was expiring (two weeks ago I used the thing to get A home from the hospital and it was working fine!)
In general, I've noticed that they are obnoxiously big and just don't fit in the smaller cars well. When the seat takes up the entire space from vehicle seat to near roof, installation is quite difficult, you see.
Installing the top tether? Pfft. The tether adjuster ALWAYS makes its way behind the shell JUST as you tighten the thing down.
I've never paid for a Britax, so at least I can't complain on that regard.
Crotch buckles. WTF.
I swear the crotch buckles on these things get sticky if you look at them funny. Maybe it has been my seats, but none of them have ever "clicked", they just kinda "smoosh" and lock in...sometimes. I always give a few pulls on them as every 1 out of 3 uses a clip will come back out.
Who decided to make the damn crotch strap so short? I have to LOOSEN the harness to buckle him because I don't have enough space for my hand AND manipulating the teeny little crotch strap to get it buckled.
Headwings.
Aren't these supposed to help prevent head slump? Or, in the least, help surround a child's head in the event of a crash?
So...why does J's head slump to his chest as soon as he falls asleep? If we got in a side-impact accident like that, his neck would totally be snapped against the headwings. It is truly annoying to pull over and flop my kid's head back where it belongs every 5 miles.
Expiration.
I swear, my Wizard just hit its last 3 weeks of life, and EVERYTHING on this seat began to malfunction.
The headwings/harness will no longer raise properly. I checked the track, it's fine. It's like it stripped out or something all of a sudden.
Neither crotch buckle wants to lock. I've soaked this plenty of times with no luck.
One LATCH clip has decided it no longer wants to latch.
One FF lock-off completely snapped off, the other no longer locks for some reason unknown to me.
The seat is junk and I don't understand how it KNEW it was expiring (two weeks ago I used the thing to get A home from the hospital and it was working fine!)