Brigala
CPST Instructor
I have two brand spanking new August 2013 unopened car seats. One needs to either go up on Craigslist or be gifted to a friend if I can't get a reasonable price out of it (enough to get her, say, a Guide or a SureRide and have some left over to make it worthwhile).
The first is a Complete Air 70 in Decatur. I got this through the Weeviews drawing.
The second is a Complete Air 65 SE (reclining base like the LX). This was a replacement for my crashed CA.
My daughter is too big to RF in either one, so for the most part the one I keep will be used forward facing, and only as an extra until she gets too big to RF in the Radian. I would very likely use it for travel as well due to being lighter than the Radian. But I also have a step-grandson who will likely use it from time to time, rear-facing, rather than move his car seat into my car every time I am watching him. And other kids, too. I really like the idea of having one no-rethread convertible in my arsenal of seats because random kids are in and out of my life on a fairly frequent basis. So, although I'm open to alternative suggestions, I think I definitely want to keep one seat or the other. The 65 SE installs both RF and FF in most of my vehicles as long as I'm not too picky about the recline angle. I haven't tried the 70.
I really really the SE fabric, which is why I have that seat in the first place. But I'm not sure whether the reclining base is more trouble than it's worth.
In case it matters, the other seats I have in my collection are two Radians (our primary seats for DD in the primary cars), a FR85, a Coccoro (totally outgrown by DD but gets used occasionally for random friends' kids), and a PWSG. So I pretty much have a car seat for every occasion.
Which one would you keep and which one would you sell? And why?
The first is a Complete Air 70 in Decatur. I got this through the Weeviews drawing.
The second is a Complete Air 65 SE (reclining base like the LX). This was a replacement for my crashed CA.
My daughter is too big to RF in either one, so for the most part the one I keep will be used forward facing, and only as an extra until she gets too big to RF in the Radian. I would very likely use it for travel as well due to being lighter than the Radian. But I also have a step-grandson who will likely use it from time to time, rear-facing, rather than move his car seat into my car every time I am watching him. And other kids, too. I really like the idea of having one no-rethread convertible in my arsenal of seats because random kids are in and out of my life on a fairly frequent basis. So, although I'm open to alternative suggestions, I think I definitely want to keep one seat or the other. The 65 SE installs both RF and FF in most of my vehicles as long as I'm not too picky about the recline angle. I haven't tried the 70.
I really really the SE fabric, which is why I have that seat in the first place. But I'm not sure whether the reclining base is more trouble than it's worth.
In case it matters, the other seats I have in my collection are two Radians (our primary seats for DD in the primary cars), a FR85, a Coccoro (totally outgrown by DD but gets used occasionally for random friends' kids), and a PWSG. So I pretty much have a car seat for every occasion.
Which one would you keep and which one would you sell? And why?