On our KeyFit all the stickers turned super brittle and started crumbling off after less than 3 years.
Our NextFit is 9 months old and the sticker around the bubble leveler is already peeling off and brittle. Many of the other stickers have pucker lines where you can tell they will crack any day now.
Neither were ever picked at and the stickers came off in areas comelpletely inaccessible to little hands. Even the ones on top of the KeyFit base fell off.
Britax uses really nice plastic based stickers that never seem to bubble, crack or peel. All the stickers on our 5 year old Boulevard still look great.
I remember there being some line in FMVSS 213 about labels needing to be permanently affixed to the restraint or something along those lines. I even contacted Chicco at one point requesting new stickers for our KeyFit since they had all fallen off with only half its lifespan used. They told me the FMVSS requirement is only that the labels be affixed when the consumer purchases it and tough luck on anything after that point. They also said they could not send me new stickers.
It's just frustrating that an extremely well maintained seat is loosing its stickers after less than a year of use. I haven't tried contacting Chicco about the NextFit but honestly I want to report it to NHTSA as it seems like a defect considering the labels are a requirement at least at the time of sale.
Our NextFit is 9 months old and the sticker around the bubble leveler is already peeling off and brittle. Many of the other stickers have pucker lines where you can tell they will crack any day now.
Neither were ever picked at and the stickers came off in areas comelpletely inaccessible to little hands. Even the ones on top of the KeyFit base fell off.
Britax uses really nice plastic based stickers that never seem to bubble, crack or peel. All the stickers on our 5 year old Boulevard still look great.
I remember there being some line in FMVSS 213 about labels needing to be permanently affixed to the restraint or something along those lines. I even contacted Chicco at one point requesting new stickers for our KeyFit since they had all fallen off with only half its lifespan used. They told me the FMVSS requirement is only that the labels be affixed when the consumer purchases it and tough luck on anything after that point. They also said they could not send me new stickers.
It's just frustrating that an extremely well maintained seat is loosing its stickers after less than a year of use. I haven't tried contacting Chicco about the NextFit but honestly I want to report it to NHTSA as it seems like a defect considering the labels are a requirement at least at the time of sale.