Expiration Date History

momtoirs · Mar 2, 2011

I've been asked when expiration dates started being used (what year). I don't know, but am betting that someone here does!

If I remember correctly, they started being used when people were realizing that rear-facing seats in the front with passenger air bags was dangerous, but the person asking is looking for a more specific time period.

Thanks!
Tina

momtoirs · Mar 3, 2011

Anyone?

christineka · Mar 3, 2011

My first car seat was an evenflo on my way from 1999. It didn't have a stamped expiration date. I did read the manual, but that doesn't mean much. I didn't know when it expired except that I had read seats expired 5-7 years after they were made. My second seat was a century ste dom 2000 with a stamped expiration date of December 2007.

joolsplus3 · Mar 4, 2011

I guess the carseat.org page needs to be updated, lol...http://www.carseat.org/Technical/tech_update.htm#expdate
"In the last few years, CR manufacturers have been putting "expiration dates" on their products."

Anyway, I for sure knew about it when I bought my first seat in 1997. I think passenger side airbags became fairly common in the mid 90's, so that's when the tragedies and expirations would have started to trickle in. I don't think there was any specific date when it happened for every brand, though, so I hope 'mid 90's' is accurate enough

Defrost · Mar 4, 2011

I've read or been told (I forget which) that they started putting expiration dates on carseats when LATCH was implemented, so that the older seats without top-tethers could get phased out. It wasn't that people didn't have concerns about older seats before that, just that the lack of top tethers was an easy and obvious way to "market" the concept.

momtoirs · Mar 5, 2011

Thanks everyone. I had checked the encyclopedia and assumed that it was more than a few years ago by now.

Tina

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