News Britax G3 seat recall affecting Boulevard, Pavillion, and Advocate

snowbird25ca · Nov 6, 2012

http://www.britaxconvertiblerecall.com/

It's not up on the TC website yet but is on the Britax site. Affects seats manufactured between June 1, 2012 and August 31, 2012.

Note that this recall does not affect the performance of the seat in a collision and they're safe to keep using until the recall kit is received.

The notice has this quote:

If consumers have not yet received their remedy kit and have concerns that their child may bite the HUGS pads, the HUGS pads can be removed and the car seat can be safely used until replacement pads are received. As always, please ensure that proper harness tensioning is achieved. For any questions, contact our Customer Service Department at 1-888-427-4829.

I would suggest that anyone with a ff'ing child comfirm that prior to removing the pads since the manual indicates they are required ff'ing and optional rf'ing.

swtgi1982 · Nov 6, 2012

NHTSA has it already, I got the email from them abut 6am this morning. This kinda bothers me, my older hugs from Jan 2012 on my G2 Marathon have done the same thing, wierd, but my kiddo is RF still so I just took them off.

snowbird25ca · Nov 6, 2012

The safecell hugs are very different from the original hugs. They are thicker and have a white kind of foamy-plastic in the center. (Not sure exactly how to describe it... I've only seen it because I've seen a broken one.)

I can see how they might break easier than the old style. Most things can be broken if a baby chews on them for long enough on a regular enough basis. I think this is just a case that this style was a lot more susceptible to quickly breaking down... Or maybe the safecell HUGS being thicker made them easier for babies to chew on?

Or who knows... maybe the way they are attached for better positioning means that more kids have them up higher than where caregivers were keeping the old HUGS on average and this is a problem we would've seen more often with them too if everyone was keeping them at the right height?