Question when did they start putting expirations on seats?

vmmatula · Nov 24, 2014

when did they start putting expirations on child restraints?

I want to address this with someone selling "one that pulls over you old school one but still nice" on FB... she said, "it is older; it doesn't have an expiration date on it its before they started doing all that" so before I offer her the $5 she's asking for just so she doesn't sell to someone who'd actually use it, I wanted to be able to have a general idea of how old that really is...

thanks!

littleangelfire · Nov 24, 2014

My guess is that it had one, on a sticker, that has rubbed off. Or it may only have date of manufacture on it and you'd need the manual to know how many years after you have until it expires, often 6 years. If you post a link we can likely tell you what it is

vmmatula · Nov 24, 2014

actually, I wasn't going to say much about the particular seat she posted (its a closed group. no pic)I just wanted to point out to her that if, in fact, it was manufactured before expiration dates were mandatory on seats, it was at least xx yrs old and should without question be thrown away. I will make a similar comment even if I don't find out when dates were first put on seats but I wasjust curious if anyone could tell me when that procedure became commonplace.

thanks though.

Dillipop · Nov 24, 2014

Britax had only ever put manufacture dates on their seats- at least this was true up to a couple years ago. I know graco and evenflo stamp expiration dates on theirs but many other seats just use manufacture dates.

mom of six · Nov 24, 2014

I think it was in the late 1990's. I have been a car seat geek for a long time and I did not learn about expiation dates stamped on car seats until I bought my daughter's first car seat. A SnugRide 20 manufactured in 1999.

joolsplus3 · Nov 24, 2014

One that pulls over you old school... I can certainly imagine what that looks like.
We always said 10 years back in those days. This was a good list that said 10 years, but she's changed it to 6, which makes it an even better resource, I think http://www.cpsafety.com/articles/usedseat.aspx

Cnidaria · Nov 25, 2014

This is a pretty decent link: http://csftl.org/expired-seats/

It has an overhead shield car seat as an example of what not to use, and says to get rid of any seat that doesn't have a date of manufacture sticker or stamp.

I'm surprised to learn that the last overhead shield seats were manufactured in 2009 and aren't actually expired yet! http://www.carseatsite.com/FAQ.htm

vmmatula · Nov 25, 2014

Thanks all...very helpful and gives me info to back up my general thought that if overhead shield(except in that one case) its expired. if no date on the seat, its expired...if all else fails i'll buy it to throw it away for her-yikes!

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