seat with extended harness use

Unregistered · Jan 30, 2011

Hi,

My son has behavioural issues and low muscle tone and as such doesn't stay in a booster with a lap sash belt. The five point harness works well for him, with some recline. Luckily he is fairly light weight 15kg at 5.5yrs, and he is 108cms tall. He is currently in a safe and sound maxi rider II AHR(we are in oz), but the harness is in the top slots so need to get organised for the next seat. So although he will fit weight requirements he will get too tall for it.

The only seat I can get here with extended harness use is the Britax traveller plus, but it is about $1100-1600, although we may get funding for part of it still may be unrealitstic.

The other thing I can do is import a seat from the US, as I can get the required exemptions to use seat here.

But I am not sure which seat from the US is good, it needs to have the versa teether strap and some recline, was looking at the Britax Frontier 85, but was wondering what they are like to use, does it recline? and would anyone recommend anything else?

Thanks for your help,
Gem

Jennifer mom to my 7 · Jan 30, 2011

The britax frontier 85 will be the highest height harnessed seat you will find. I think it might have the same height harness as the traveller plus, or even a bit higher. The traveller plus is the same shell as the regent was.

I am not familiar with using the frontier, so someone else would have to chime in on whether it would have enough recline for your son.

flipper68 · Feb 1, 2011

My :twocents: for other options:

Merritt Roosevelt or Churchhill might work http://eztether.com/

I happened on this site the other day. It appears to have a good overview of many of the SN car seats and might give you an idea of other choices http://www.pediatriceshop.com/car-seats.html

An E-Z on vest http://www.ezonpro.com/index.shtml

Finally, Adaptive Mall has a couple different SN seats to consider http://www.adaptivemall.com/safetycarseats1.html