Well, thousands of kids no longer breaking the law in proper use clause states...

Dorel has changed their minimum FF height from 34" to 29" on the newest convertibles I put on the floor at BRU today. Seems they were a major leader in the safety pack by making the FF rules so strict before, and now that people are getting the RF to age 2 message, they'd really be in pace with that recommendation. But oh well, it's a tough market for consumer dollars, I'm sure they lost a lot of business among label-reading mamas who wanted to go straight from the infant seat to FF, and found the lenient Graco rules to be easier to swallow (still 20lbs on Graco, at least Evenflo and Dorel are 22).

I never was able to convince anyone that their kid wasn't 34" and therefore was illegal in a Dorel FF at 1. They'd just lie to me (yeah, dude, that kid is NOT that tall, I don't care what you say...) or get a confused look and say 'but it's one and 20...?' and buy the seat and use it wrong, anyway.

Also, it gets rid of the weird disjointedness of the same seats in Canada having a 32" inch RF limit, remember that a couple years back? Crazy times.

Ok, thanks for letting me ramble in my weird way (oh, their LATCH is in the FF slots, just like I complain about most Evenflos doing. :doh::soapbox::banginghead:

Aw man, really? I really liked that about them. I mean, not that a single person I know with any Dorel seat actually waited until 34" and 22lb (heck, most didn't even wait until 1 and 20: "but he's so big!"), but I did like it. And even if they didn't listen it was one more point to work at the ERF angle.

I had one that waited.

Nooooo!!!! The one thing I really liked about Dorel.

I've never seen a Canadian dorel seat with the 34" for ff requirement. Its 29", but of course I haven't looked at all their seats.

Mary_Ann said:

I've never seen a Canadian dorel seat with the 34" for ff requirement. Its 29", but of course I haven't looked at all their seats.

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No the RF limit was 32, there was no way their ff limit could be 34. This was a few years ago.

When my pedi told me I could FF at 1 I told her my seat had a 34" minimum to FF. She said she'd never heard of that but it was safer to RF.

jjordan said:

Nooooo!!!! The one thing I really liked about Dorel.

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Me too!!!
I have almost 100% success rated getting kids turned back rear facing because if the 34" rule. Even if it may have just been for the drive away from me....

joolsplus3 said:

No the RF limit was 32, there was no way their ff limit could be 34. This was a few years ago.

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The Scenera still has a 32" rf limit. :/ And some AOEs still have that (it's been in the last year or two they still sold them), the new ones are 36" thank goodness.