I get one more seat

glockchick · Aug 10, 2010

I still need a seat for dh's car.

Should I be a good, frugal girl and get a GN for Kaleigh since she'll be 4 the end of this month, or get her a Radian so I can at least rf her in dh's car and so I can play with the seat.

Dh drives a 2005 GMC Envoy with LATCH and all the fancy stuff so a RN should fit just fine in there.

Jonah Baby · Aug 10, 2010

I think it depends what is realistically more in the budget.
I'd find it always preferrable to RF at that age, but the Nautilus is a perfectly safe and acceptable option. If a Radian won't stretch the budget, why not? It has high harnessing time in a nice, slim package. Either way you have children to pass it down to, correct? Or was she your last? I forgot to look...
If she is the last child, I'd do the Nauti, however.

glockchick · Aug 10, 2010

There's one more after her. The catch is that the RN will only fit in dh's truck.

carseatcoach · Aug 10, 2010

I think it's fine to FF a 4yo (or even a 3y11mo), but it's more important to get a seat that fits in all cars.

Mommy2Marcus · Aug 10, 2010

I would go for the Nautilus. For mostly the reason that it is more practical, fits both cars & is a longer lasting seat. You never know what might happen that you might need to move it to your car. Also I love my Nautilus, so that plays a part in it to!

glockchick · Aug 10, 2010

Yeah, I know that would be the responsible thing to do.

I just really want a RN for reasons unknown I guess. DS will be in dh's car for another 3-4 years so he'll need a seat there that long anyway. And after that we'd probably just use whatever seat(s) were in dh's truck as back up.

Both sets of grandparents have latch so a RN should work in their vehicles too.

See me trying to justify it?

AtTheSouthDam · Aug 10, 2010

ShannaLeah said:
Both sets of grandparents have latch so a RN should work in their vehicles too.

See me trying to justify it?

Just because a car has LATCH does not mean the RN will work. I cannot get a solid install using LATCH in the 3rd row of my van yet I can get an awesome install with the seat belt in my mother's Durango (the vehicle that I actually purchased the original RN for. Getting a tether anchor in it just led to a lot of run around.)

chickabiddy said:
I think it's fine to FF a 4yo (or even a 3y11mo), but it's more important to get a seat that fits in all cars.

If that was the case no one would have a RN. If she has a seat that fits her car and the RN fits her DH's why not?

glockchick · Aug 10, 2010

True. I just searched it. According to this post, it should work. :thumbsup:

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