Radian chest clip

BW1426 · Apr 23, 2008

Everyone is saying that SK oked the use of an IMMI clip with the Radian. I talked to Russ a couple weeks ago complaining about the tightening in my seat and asked him if I could switch clips. He told me that he could not tell me it was ok to do that. What is up with SK and their wishy washy responses?!

*Spoiledinmyhouseofblue* · Apr 23, 2008

My son complains about the chest clip all the time on the radian! I have basically just told him to deal wtih it(bad mom, I know). I dunno what is the safe thing to do.

chelle80 · Apr 23, 2008

I hate when they do that.

I switched the clip on my radian because my understanding was the seat was orginally tested with the IMMI clip, and the early pics show it with the IMMI clip.

Starlight · Apr 23, 2008

Russ tends to flip flop.

I (as well as some others) have it in writing from him that it's fine to do.

ProudMomof5 · Apr 24, 2008

I was just wondering this myself. My DD has a hard time unbuckling her chest clip. I was wanting to switch it out. What is an IMMI clip... and why does it matter so much if you use a different chest clip, as long as it fits on the straps? Isn't it there to just keep the shoulder harnesses in place?

chelle80 · Apr 24, 2008

ProudMomof5 said:
What is an IMMI clip...

An IMMI clip is like what comes on the britax seats and some others.

joolsplus3 · Apr 24, 2008

The inventor of the seat said it didn't matter (the transcript of that is in the community member coffee break area

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indigoblossom · May 23, 2008

reviving the topic because what i want to know is how does one go about replacing the chest clip. i just got my radian today and went to switch it out with a britax one and i can't get the darn radian clips off. do you break them off? did they used to be made with wider openings so the harness loop easily slid through? help?

BW1426 · May 23, 2008

indigoblossom said:
reviving the topic because what i want to know is how does one go about replacing the chest clip. i just got my radian today and went to switch it out with a britax one and i can't get the darn radian clips off. do you break them off? did they used to be made with wider openings so the harness loop easily slid through? help?

It took me like a half an hour to slide the darn thing off, but eventually it worked. I was about a minute short of using a hammer to break it off

tjham · May 24, 2008

I just did my second one a few days ago.
It's a pain but the second time was much easier,
since I learned how on the first one.
You have to pull some of the strap through the middle opening of the clip (into a big loop, at least 5 inches) FIRST before you try to pull the end out of the skinny little opening.
Oh, dear, that sounds silly, but it works. And pull it straight up, not tilted. You have to wiggle it back and forth until it finally comes through.

Good Luck!

indigoblossom · May 24, 2008

tjham said:
I just did my second one a few days ago.
It's a pain but the second time was much easier,
since I learned how on the first one.
You have to pull some of the strap through the middle opening of the clip (into a big loop, at least 5 inches) FIRST before you try to pull the end out of the skinny little opening.
Oh, dear, that sounds silly, but it works. And pull it straight up, not tilted. You have to wiggle it back and forth until it finally comes through.

Good Luck!

no i know what you mean...i've tried that but i can't even seem to get that loop out of between the two openings BUT i think i'll use a nail file to help keep it straight as i pull

indigoblossom · May 24, 2008

BW1426 said:
It took me like a half an hour to slide the darn thing off, but eventually it worked. I was about a minute short of using a hammer to break it off

i was almost at that point but i knew if i could just slide out some excess strap between the two slots it would work...then i saw tjham's comment, went back armed with an orange stick to dig out the strap between the openings and voila! they were out in seconds after that

ntepper · May 27, 2008

Will replacing the chest clip on the Radian help to make the harnass straps sit wider apart? The way it is now my daughter is getting red marks on her neck from the straps. Its seems as though if the clip was wider it would hold the straps apart farther . . . would this IMMI clip do that?
I just posted a new post about this but then saw this one so thought I would ask here as well!

CDNTech · May 27, 2008

ntepper said:
Will replacing the chest clip on the Radian help to make the harnass straps sit wider apart? The way it is now my daughter is getting red marks on her neck from the straps. Its seems as though if the clip was wider it would hold the straps apart farther . . . would this IMMI clip do that?
I just posted a new post about this but then saw this one so thought I would ask here as well!

Yep... that's exactly what it does.

ntepper · May 27, 2008

Thank you! So then I just buy a Britax $3 chest clip? I am on the phone with them right now and asked if this was the IMMI chest clip and they said no that IMMI never made chest clips, just buckles. Is he wrong? Will the regular Britax chest clip work for this seat?

joolsplus3 · May 27, 2008

Yeah, just buy it (I hope you did, unless you're still on hold!)... I'm not sure it's IMMI, but we call it that... it's not Britax-specific (they have the same clip on Combi and IMMI seats and a few others...)... it's just that sort of oval shape with two buttons on top and bottom to release it.

joolsplus3 · May 27, 2008

And ps, yeah, it's much further apart than the SK 'lock tite' clip... check out this page (scroll down to the next picture) http://www.carseatsite.com/chestclips.htm#2piece you can see them one right on top of the other.

April · May 27, 2008

I emailed Russ about this last Friday and he just said that I must be putting the chest clip too high.

snowbird25ca · May 27, 2008

For those having problems who haven't put the harness pads on yet, putting them on makes the seat much more comfy for kids. My dd complained the first time I put her in the seat before I had the harness pads on and I was worried. She's never made a single complaint since the harness pads have been on though.

I have an IMMI clip sitting in case I decide I want to use it at some point, but haven't had a need to switch it at this point.

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