snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
So I've been thinking lately, about the 3in1 seats and how we tend to not recommend them because of them being outgrown early and making a poor booster.
I tried my dd in one at BRU the other day, and she still had about 1 to 1.5" of room in it in the store. Of course I don't know what she'd have with it installed, but I was surprised to see that. I've seen someone else mention that the top usable harness height is around 16 or 16.5" now too, and that seems about right if I think about how she fits in the MA...
So I've been thinking some about this... at 16 to 16.5", kids are likely to fit it close to the same length of time as the blvd (provided they were under the weight limit,) since the blvd/MA seem to be outgrown before a kid's torso actually reaches the length of the top harness height just due to how kids sit in the seats...
Granted the seat still makes a lousy booster, and still has that potentially fatal flaw of top position of the headrest being for booster use only - coupled with it being a pain to install quite frequently...
But can we truly say that it's outgrown quickly now that they've seemingly raised the harness height? The headrest has EPS foam in it now too, so that also changes the picture a little I think...
Just wondering if anyone else has had similar thoughts...
I tried my dd in one at BRU the other day, and she still had about 1 to 1.5" of room in it in the store. Of course I don't know what she'd have with it installed, but I was surprised to see that. I've seen someone else mention that the top usable harness height is around 16 or 16.5" now too, and that seems about right if I think about how she fits in the MA...
So I've been thinking some about this... at 16 to 16.5", kids are likely to fit it close to the same length of time as the blvd (provided they were under the weight limit,) since the blvd/MA seem to be outgrown before a kid's torso actually reaches the length of the top harness height just due to how kids sit in the seats...
Granted the seat still makes a lousy booster, and still has that potentially fatal flaw of top position of the headrest being for booster use only - coupled with it being a pain to install quite frequently...
But can we truly say that it's outgrown quickly now that they've seemingly raised the harness height? The headrest has EPS foam in it now too, so that also changes the picture a little I think...
Just wondering if anyone else has had similar thoughts...