Victorious4
Senior Community Member
Britax only had the Monarch on display for a booster (amidst every other seat that they currently make) so I wondered why not the Parkway: their rep. asked her supervisor & it turns out they will be discontinuing the Parkway in approx. 18-24+ months I pushed them to consider making it into the only truly [edit] *combination* seat on the market (next to Recaro Young Sport) & they promised to take my comment home for evaluation
Surprisingly, Leila seemed to have a bit more room in the Radian compared to the Safeguard Childseat -- I asked the rep. about the difference between the 65 vs. 80 (why the higher cost when I heard it's the same seat, just tested differently). The answer is that it's not the same: they added steel reinforcement bars! I forget the terminology now, but this also means that it's safe to use the harness when the top of the shoulders are up to 1.5" above the top slots Sooooo if I needed narrow seat to keep a kid harnessed as long as possible I would choose the Radian in a heartbeat ... but then I'd scream if it didn't fit the vehicle @@
P.S. when I asked the Dorel Juvenile reps why they won't make the Apex safe for vehicles without headrests (since this would be the perfect grant seat to supply on Native American Reservations where the population has such a high obesity rate yet depressingly low income) their response was that the only solution would be to add steel reinforcement bars, but that would cost them too much
Surprisingly, Leila seemed to have a bit more room in the Radian compared to the Safeguard Childseat -- I asked the rep. about the difference between the 65 vs. 80 (why the higher cost when I heard it's the same seat, just tested differently). The answer is that it's not the same: they added steel reinforcement bars! I forget the terminology now, but this also means that it's safe to use the harness when the top of the shoulders are up to 1.5" above the top slots Sooooo if I needed narrow seat to keep a kid harnessed as long as possible I would choose the Radian in a heartbeat ... but then I'd scream if it didn't fit the vehicle @@
P.S. when I asked the Dorel Juvenile reps why they won't make the Apex safe for vehicles without headrests (since this would be the perfect grant seat to supply on Native American Reservations where the population has such a high obesity rate yet depressingly low income) their response was that the only solution would be to add steel reinforcement bars, but that would cost them too much
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