Which seat for road trip

amelia222 · Mar 26, 2014

We are going to Seattle this weekend!! The drive is about 3 hours each way. Which seat should I put DD in? Options are a FrontierXT, Nautilus, Truefit, or G3 Marathon. She says the "lean back seat", aka truefit is the best if she's sleeping. My concern is a seatbelt install on leather with that lockoff.
Do I tell her to just get over it and use the Frontier?

Then there's the Complete Air that my mom hung in her garage by the harness straps. DD loves that seat and I know she sleeps well in it. I haven't used it since then but maybe I'm being overly cautious.....

shashoo · Mar 26, 2014

I have no experience with the true fit but I usually let my dd pick what seat she wants to use. The britax would also allow a good recline for sleeping

. Dd slept awful in the nautilus so I would take that off the list. Are you taking your car? What seat is in there now?

amelia222 · Mar 26, 2014

We're going in SIL's car. Driving to their place at 6am then switching the seat over.

Pixelated · Mar 26, 2014

amelia222 said:
We are going to Seattle this weekend!! The drive is about 3 hours each way. Which seat should I put DD in? Options are a FrontierXT, Nautilus, Truefit, or G3 Marathon. She says the "lean back seat", aka truefit is the best if she's sleeping. My concern is a seatbelt install on leather with that lockoff.
Do I tell her to just get over it and use the Frontier?

Then there's the Complete Air that my mom hung in her garage by the harness straps. DD loves that seat and I know she sleeps well in it. I haven't used it since then but maybe I'm being overly cautious.....

When you have so many seats to choose from I wouldn't pick the probably compromised Complete Air - did you ever ask Dorel what they thought of that?

I don't find the FF seat belt install challenging on the True Fit unless the belt stalks are fixed and forward-leaning, at which point it becomes quite tough. So that would be what would eliminate it. You could always bring it and a back-up in case you go to install it and it's sucky. For me it would be a toss-up between the Frontier and the Marathon - although, she's leggy, right? Would her feet fall asleep with the shorter seat depth of the Marathon?

shashoo · Mar 26, 2014

amelia222 said:
We're going in SIL's car. Driving to their place at 6am then switching the seat over.

Ah, unless you want to try it before hand I vote Britax cause that gives the easiest install in the largest variety of cars and is comfy for sleeping.

SavsMom · Mar 26, 2014

We drove 2k miles with dd in a Frontier. She was super comfy, slept well and had no complaints.

amelia222 · Mar 26, 2014

She really doesn't like the Marathon. The velcro on the harness bothers her, always has. She's in the Nautilus right now in the van, and the marathon and truefit are installed for the daycare babies. So I think I'll try the Truefit first and then I'll have backup seats with me in case it doesn't work. My concern with the truefit install is from putting it FF in my van and having it want to slip forward. Maybe it will be easy and not an issue?

YinzerMama · Mar 27, 2014

My girls sleep great in their frontiers. I will probably bring them back into service for road trips, once the girls are in boosters. Easy to install, too. I'd rule out the nauti and, unless she is very tiny, the MA.

shashoo · Mar 27, 2014

I just noticed it is a frontier xt not a 90. The 85 we have is our favorite. I even lugged it on an airplane earlier this year since we were going to have long car rides at our destination.

Minnesota · Mar 27, 2014

We've done thousands of miles of road trips with the Frontier and although it looks quite upright, it is apparently quite comfy for sleeping. We would leave in the evening, drive through the night, and the kids would sleep through. Looking at how comfy DS1 was sleeping in it made me wish I had one so I could just lean my head to the side and fall asleep!

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