We have a Sureride that has been our spare/travel seat. I just started using it as a primary seat, and the buckle is annoying me. I press down on the button and the right side pops open, but it have to jiggle and use 2 hands to get the left side open. Is there a learning curve to these buckles? Or should I try to contact Evenflo for a replacement? I know with our first seat (SR30), we had trouble for the first month or so until we learned just where to press down on the button, so I am wondering if this is similar? This is the new buckle after the recall.
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Sureride Buckle Sticking?
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Moving this to the Carseat Chat forum for more visibility. Can you take a photo of your replacement buckle? There is more than one supplier for replacements so it would be some additional information that may help identify it if someone else has a similar issue.
Small photos can be uploaded. Larger ones need to be hosted on a service like photobucket or flickr and then you can use the little postcard symbol to insert the link then the image will appear in your post. Or just a link works too.
Kecia
Admin - CPST Instructor
Both buckles tongues should eject when you press the red release button. First try rinsing the buckle. Remove the crotch strap, hold the buckle upside down and swish it around in a glass of plain warm water - no soap - and press the button a few times when it's under water. Then let it dry thoroughly before you put it back on the seat. That should hopefully solve the issue. But if it doesn't, then call Evenflo. Good luck!
cottonpenny
New member
I have this problem with my Sureride too! It's my spare/travel/grandparent seat and it definitely hasn't endeared the grandparents that these newfangled child restraints are easy to use 
Mine is pretty new, don't have the DOM handy but I purchased it this May. My buckle looks like this one: http://csftl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Triumph-Fiona-Collage.jpg The seat is hardly used and never eaten in, so it's definitely not that anything has been spilled in it.
I also hate the continuous harness and the super twisty straps in this seat. And my 3 yo DS complained constantly while in the seat about the crotch buckle hurting him (he's never once complained about his Boulevard, Roundabout, or Ranier, so I don't think it was behavioral).
I bought it from Costco so I'm about to return it and buy something else for the grandparents - Frontier 90 or Graco 4ever or Chicco Nextfit probably.
Mine is pretty new, don't have the DOM handy but I purchased it this May. My buckle looks like this one: http://csftl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Triumph-Fiona-Collage.jpg The seat is hardly used and never eaten in, so it's definitely not that anything has been spilled in it.
I also hate the continuous harness and the super twisty straps in this seat. And my 3 yo DS complained constantly while in the seat about the crotch buckle hurting him (he's never once complained about his Boulevard, Roundabout, or Ranier, so I don't think it was behavioral).
I bought it from Costco so I'm about to return it and buy something else for the grandparents - Frontier 90 or Graco 4ever or Chicco Nextfit probably.
They've been very nice like that to us before, too.
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