What do I do with crashed seats?

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sholoulou

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #1

Insurance said they do not need to keep the crashed seats. What do I do to insure no one else uses them. Also, I know I can keep the covers is there anything else on the seat that I can keep. The seats are Radian xtsl and Monterey. Thanks again!!

 

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tarabelle

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #2

if they were occupied, just the covers.


Check around to see if you have a recycling program in your area for used car seats.

Cut all harness and latch straps. Write "CRASHED DO NOT USE" on the seats. Try to break them apart and throw them away in separate pieces. I put mine into large black trash bags so no one would be tempted to grab it off the curb.

 

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sholoulou

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #3

Ok great. Thanks!

 

Baylor

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #4

Unless, someone will need one when BRU does its trade in. you could keep them in the garage and then use them for 25% off new seat.

 

Keeanh

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #5

Depends if you have kids that like to make/invent things out of junk . Mine have had all sorts of fun with the harnesses, buckles, & tether straps of old seats. Really, there's nothing wrong with the buckles & webbing in terms of regular non-safety use.

 

luckyclov

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #6

I think it might depend on the particular station and the people on duty at the time, but when I found a "free" expired carseat on the side of the road, I didn't quite know what to do with it. So I drove to my local fire station and pleaded for help. They happily (actually, they were pretty excited ) took it and said they'd find a way to destroy it (I did cut and remove the harness straps and crotch strap/buckle beforehand).

ETA: I've also removed the cover and cut straps/buckle off and placed the shell in a seperate garbage bag to go out with the trash.

 

dneul

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #7

I am in search of car seat harnesses and latch straps for a sewing project I have coming up... They will not be used anywhere near cars. Let me know what you want for them and I can paypal you the money for them.

 

agave

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #8

I took mine to BRU for trade in but I didn't need anything that qualified for the discount so I gave my %25 off coupons to a pregnant lady looking at carseats in the store.

 

Mae

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #9

tarabelle said:

Cut all harness and latch straps. Write "CRASHED DO NOT USE" on the seats. Try to break them apart and throw them away in separate pieces. I put mine into large black trash bags so no one would be tempted to grab it off the curb.

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Yeah, make sure you smash them into a lot of pieces & then gradually dispose of them over a long time period! I just read on Facebook from a fellow technician that somebody *went through her trash bags*, then *knocked on her door* and asked if they could take the coverless & harness-less car seats that had "DANGER - EXPIRED CAR SEAT, DO NOT USE" written all over it.

 

dneul

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #10

I have taken the approach to removing covers, cutting harnesses and webbing off seats, removing screwed on pieces with screw driver, and then smashing the seats against the driveway until they are visually broken, and then with sharpie markers write "expired", "crashed", or whatever else applied.

 

robbertbobbert

New member

• Apr 18, 2011

• #11

Mae said:

Yeah, make sure you smash them into a lot of pieces & then gradually dispose of them over a long time period! I just read on Facebook from a fellow technician that somebody *went through her trash bags*, then *knocked on her door* and asked if they could take the coverless & harness-less car seats that had "DANGER - EXPIRED CAR SEAT, DO NOT USE" written all over it.

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Wtffff? Who even does that? Were they just routinely searching through their trash, or did they know there was a seat in there? And who rummages through someone's trash and then ASKS if they can have something that was clearly intended to never be used again?

 

Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• Apr 18, 2011

• #12

Depending on where you live, there are recycling programs.