Is my RA50 unusable now? UPDATE in #30
So I posted not too long ago about letting my friend borrow my RA50 and how she washed the harness in the washing machine and then her daughters ripped up the eps foam (she offered to order new parts).
www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=224934
Well I finally got the seat back from her yesterday and she also managed to lose the comfort foam and one of the rectangular foam pieces covered by the "do not remove" sticker, AND she got the versa tether caught in her car tire and shredded the end of it!!!!!! Then when I pulled back the cover I noticed that the 3 rows of red stitching on one of the versa tether ends that attaches to the seat had been ripped through. When the tether got caught in her tire it must have pulled the tether so hard that it ripped through the stitching!!! In the manual it says that the seat must be discarded if the red stitching has been ripped through, but is this only if the seat has been in a crash? Is it possible to get a new tether? Or is my seat just trash at this point? I'm soooooo glad that this was the RA50 that I got during that awesome Target clearance for $48 awhile back or else I'd be even more fuming right now. Should I just throw out the seat and have her pay me the $48 + tax that I originally paid? So bummed right now that my perfectly good seat that was worth $150+ was destroyed.
So I posted not too long ago about letting my friend borrow my RA50 and how she washed the harness in the washing machine and then her daughters ripped up the eps foam (she offered to order new parts).
www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=224934
Well I finally got the seat back from her yesterday and she also managed to lose the comfort foam and one of the rectangular foam pieces covered by the "do not remove" sticker, AND she got the versa tether caught in her car tire and shredded the end of it!!!!!! Then when I pulled back the cover I noticed that the 3 rows of red stitching on one of the versa tether ends that attaches to the seat had been ripped through. When the tether got caught in her tire it must have pulled the tether so hard that it ripped through the stitching!!! In the manual it says that the seat must be discarded if the red stitching has been ripped through, but is this only if the seat has been in a crash? Is it possible to get a new tether? Or is my seat just trash at this point? I'm soooooo glad that this was the RA50 that I got during that awesome Target clearance for $48 awhile back or else I'd be even more fuming right now. Should I just throw out the seat and have her pay me the $48 + tax that I originally paid? So bummed right now that my perfectly good seat that was worth $150+ was destroyed.
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