Who wants to measure their seats for me?

BeckC

Well-known member
I'm compiling a list of different convertible car seats for a friend. One of the things I'd like to include is bottom and top harness heights and the distance from the back crease of the seat to the top of the shell. I know that kids fit differently in seats depending on how they're installed, but this is just to kind of do some pre-shopping comparison. I'd also like the approximate weight of the seats to compare for airline travel. The seats I'd like the info on are:

Cosco Scenera
Safety 1st Avenue (or Uptown - same shell, right?)
EFTA (with and without infant padding)
True Fit (with and without infant padding)
Radian
MA/BLVD/Dec
Roundabout/Diplomat
Recaro Como
Recaro Signo

TIA!
 
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Patriot201

Car-Seat.org Ambassador
I can do the Scenera and BV for you.

The BV is currently installed in my mother's car, though, so I don't have immediate access to it. Sorry!
 

firemomof3

New member
I only get 18" for top harness height on one of my signos but 19" on the other? Bottom height is 11.75"
 
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Patriot201

Car-Seat.org Ambassador
Cosco Scenera:

Without cover:
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With cover:
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Crotch strap:
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To the top of shell:
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sunnymw

New member
I don't love ya enough to take it out and weigh it, but I WAS able to do the Uptown before I started getting rained on.

I don't know if it's the car or if it's the seat, but this is the uptown installed in an 07 Civic... for a toddler... with a 3-noodle tower.
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Top of shell... is exactly where the fabric ends. I felt :)
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ETA: I want to do the strap heights again w/o cover... the cover doesn't line up exactly w/ the harness slots. But it'll be tonight or tomorrow before that vehicle gets back ;)
 

PixieEMT

New member
The top harness slot for the Boulevard is 16". I've measured it several times and that's what Britax says also. I bought mine from the KDMF , they had it listed as 17.5 max. I'm a little bummed about that.
 

snowbird25ca

Moderator - CPST Instructor
There's also Jenny's Recommended Seats List

The tape measure looks slightly crooked in the slot measurement pic's, I was holding with one hand and taking with the other - I made sure to match up for the visual height on the measuring tape what it actually had measured when using 2 hands to measure. ;) It is worth noting though that kids fit seats differently than what they measure in many cases.

MA:

Top shell height:
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Top slot height:
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(This might have been closer to 17", it was a solid 16.5" at the least, but definitely not over 17")

EFTA:
Top harness height:
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For some reason I didn't take a pic of the shell height of the EFTA, but it measured 1" less than the MA. That should be taken with a grain of salt though because with an actual kid in it, the EFTA offers more shell height when rf'ing than the MA. :shrug-shoulders:
 

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