Nedra
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Do your seats pair only with the vehicles in which they are installed?
We have a 98 Honda Accord and a 2010 Impreza. My in-laws (who do childcare for us a couple days a week) have a 2010 Forester. We have convertible car seats in the Impreza and the Forester, and right now we're using her infant seat (she still fits) on the rare occasion that we ever need to take her in the Honda.
I am planning to get a "spare" seat for the Honda. Based on some threads on here, I'd pretty much planned to get the Evenflo Titan 65 (Sureride).
Today, I was at BRU and saw that they had the Sureride in stock (they'd pulled it from the shelves for the last several weeks so I hadn't seen it there). My BRU lets us try out seats in the car, so I took it out to the Impreza, which was the car I happened to have with me, and tried it out.
I was shocked and how big it was in the Impreza. I installed it on the passenger side and my knees were pressed against the dashboard. I liked the seat, but I was just shocked at how huge it was. It definitely would never be able to install RF in our Impreza and I'm not even sure it could go comfortably in the Forester (we have a Britax Roundabout in that car right now and my in-laws have the passenger seat back as far as it will go without touching).
This was disappointing to me, since I'd hoped that if my daughter outgrew the RA by height before we were ready to flip her FF, that I could shuffle things around and put the Sureride in the in-laws' Forester to keep her RF longer with them.
I went back into the store and grabbed an EasyFit (Guide 65) to try out. I installed it at the "most upright" RF angle and it was very comfortable for me to sit in front of it.
Clearly, if I wanted to be able to shuffle car seats between cars at all, I'd need to pass on the Sureride/Titan 65. But I hear the Guide 65 won't last as long RF and has some kind of tilted headrest issue. Would you buy a carseat that you'd only be able to use in one of your cars? Or would you prefer to have car seats that can be shuffled up?
Also, would the Guide 65 last longer than the Roundabout? Or would they be about even anyway?
Thanks!
We have a 98 Honda Accord and a 2010 Impreza. My in-laws (who do childcare for us a couple days a week) have a 2010 Forester. We have convertible car seats in the Impreza and the Forester, and right now we're using her infant seat (she still fits) on the rare occasion that we ever need to take her in the Honda.
I am planning to get a "spare" seat for the Honda. Based on some threads on here, I'd pretty much planned to get the Evenflo Titan 65 (Sureride).
Today, I was at BRU and saw that they had the Sureride in stock (they'd pulled it from the shelves for the last several weeks so I hadn't seen it there). My BRU lets us try out seats in the car, so I took it out to the Impreza, which was the car I happened to have with me, and tried it out.
I was shocked and how big it was in the Impreza. I installed it on the passenger side and my knees were pressed against the dashboard. I liked the seat, but I was just shocked at how huge it was. It definitely would never be able to install RF in our Impreza and I'm not even sure it could go comfortably in the Forester (we have a Britax Roundabout in that car right now and my in-laws have the passenger seat back as far as it will go without touching).
This was disappointing to me, since I'd hoped that if my daughter outgrew the RA by height before we were ready to flip her FF, that I could shuffle things around and put the Sureride in the in-laws' Forester to keep her RF longer with them.
I went back into the store and grabbed an EasyFit (Guide 65) to try out. I installed it at the "most upright" RF angle and it was very comfortable for me to sit in front of it.
Clearly, if I wanted to be able to shuffle car seats between cars at all, I'd need to pass on the Sureride/Titan 65. But I hear the Guide 65 won't last as long RF and has some kind of tilted headrest issue. Would you buy a carseat that you'd only be able to use in one of your cars? Or would you prefer to have car seats that can be shuffled up?
Also, would the Guide 65 last longer than the Roundabout? Or would they be about even anyway?
Thanks!