Inspired by the thread about Britney Spears' latest carseat misuse, I thought I'd start a thread where we can share some carseat misuse of our own before we knew any better.
I'll start:
I confess to using the Mighty Tite briefly when my oldest DD was born I was going crazy trying to get a tighter installation for her Evenflo infant seat base in the scooped out bucket style seat in my '00 Saturn SC1 2+2 coupe. I soon switched to using a RF Cosco Touriva without the Mighty Tite after DD quickly outgrew the infant seat by height.
I also turned my oldest FF as soon as she was a year old and over 20 lbs. because it was so much easier to use a convertible carseat FF in the SC1. Not exactly misuse, but definitely not the recommended practice of RF until the seat is outgrown RF. I traded the SC1 for a Saturn Vue when DD was 15 months old and turned her RF again in the Vue.
In the accident in which DD#1 was riding in DH's L100 (see crash damage photo in my signature), she was riding FF in her Marathon Even though she was still light enough to RF, we were lazy when we moved her Marathon from my VUE and it was quicker to install it FF in DH's car.
I'll start:
I confess to using the Mighty Tite briefly when my oldest DD was born I was going crazy trying to get a tighter installation for her Evenflo infant seat base in the scooped out bucket style seat in my '00 Saturn SC1 2+2 coupe. I soon switched to using a RF Cosco Touriva without the Mighty Tite after DD quickly outgrew the infant seat by height.
I also turned my oldest FF as soon as she was a year old and over 20 lbs. because it was so much easier to use a convertible carseat FF in the SC1. Not exactly misuse, but definitely not the recommended practice of RF until the seat is outgrown RF. I traded the SC1 for a Saturn Vue when DD was 15 months old and turned her RF again in the Vue.
In the accident in which DD#1 was riding in DH's L100 (see crash damage photo in my signature), she was riding FF in her Marathon Even though she was still light enough to RF, we were lazy when we moved her Marathon from my VUE and it was quicker to install it FF in DH's car.