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Hi - I drive an old Volvo station wagon that had top of the line safety features 20 years ago... 90% of my driving is short trips on neighborhood streets.
DD (RF at 2) is in the middle of the back seat, currently in a Boulevard 70 CS that expires later this year. A friend just gave me a Marathon 70 G3 that has a few years' life left in it. I'm unsure whether to switch, though, largely because the headwings on the Boulevard SEEM like they offer an extra degree of side-impact protection (tons of people running four-way stops around here). If I don't switch to this Marathon, I have a couple of months to find an option that seems safer to me, whether another Britax with headwings or a Radian RXT like we have in the car that we use for highway trips. I also like to think creatively and am wondering if we could replace the head support foam on the Marathon with the piece from the Boulevard, which seems straightforward since you can replace the foam itself by ordering from Britax if it gets cracked. Part of me knows that sensible people don't hack car seats, but I would like to hear this from people with actual credentials as well (or of course hear if it isn't too crazy. Both covers are in good shape, so we could work it out.) Can you help? Thanks!
DD (RF at 2) is in the middle of the back seat, currently in a Boulevard 70 CS that expires later this year. A friend just gave me a Marathon 70 G3 that has a few years' life left in it. I'm unsure whether to switch, though, largely because the headwings on the Boulevard SEEM like they offer an extra degree of side-impact protection (tons of people running four-way stops around here). If I don't switch to this Marathon, I have a couple of months to find an option that seems safer to me, whether another Britax with headwings or a Radian RXT like we have in the car that we use for highway trips. I also like to think creatively and am wondering if we could replace the head support foam on the Marathon with the piece from the Boulevard, which seems straightforward since you can replace the foam itself by ordering from Britax if it gets cracked. Part of me knows that sensible people don't hack car seats, but I would like to hear this from people with actual credentials as well (or of course hear if it isn't too crazy. Both covers are in good shape, so we could work it out.) Can you help? Thanks!