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Okay, I get it, coats can compress in a crash which can lead to loose car seats. My problem is that where I am it is VERY Cold and there are certain times that I am not able to start and run my car for it to warm up before I go somewhere and it can literally take up to 10 minutes of driving before the car is warm. My daughter is almost 18 months, she is very small for her age and she gets cold very fast, there's no way she would make it 10 minutes in a freezing cold car without being cold. Yes I have blankets but the car seat itself is freezing from being in the car and blankets only do so much at first and they do even less if they've been in the freezing cold car. Also, she's only 18 months old, she rarely leaves blankets on long enough for them to be effective, there's no way she's going to leave her coat on backwards. I rarely strap her in with her coat as most times I am able to run the car first but when I'm in a situation where I am not able to run the car I have strapped her in her car seat in her coat. Yes I understand that when I take her coat off, obviously the straps are too loose, however, when her coat is on, it's tight. I strap it as tight as I can possibly get it while scrunching her coat to ensure that there is no way she can maneuver it or it can be squashed if god forbid there were any type of impact to the car. What I don't understand is WHY if you tighten the straps as much as humanly possible to the point where the coat could NOT be compressed anymore, is the car seat not safe? It's not like the straps are loose with what she is wearing. Of course I want her to be safe but I have to be practical here, in a situation where I have no way to start and run the car until it's warm, wouldn't it be better to strap her in her coat so she's not freezing? If all of the air is compressed out of the coat where the straps are places, why is it still unsafe to do?