European Ratings

finn · Apr 21, 2009

I'm looking at buying a spare seat for ds, a convertible booster, that goes from 9-36kg, some of them are tested to ECE R44-04, some are tested to ECE R44-03, does anyone know if there is much difference between the two ratings?

Should I try to get a ECE R44-04 or is the 03 ok?

Thanks

Adventuredad · Apr 21, 2009

The ECE R44 rev.04 is relatively new and differences are small and have nothing to do with testing. Testing procedures are exactly the same in rev.03 and rev.04, what differs has to do with manufacturers.

In rev.03 seats were tested and there was after that not much oversight of manufacturers. If a seat is tested with the new rev.04 it means that responsible organization is continuously verifying the manufacturing procedure and check so that seats which were once verified are also the same one which are being sold.

In a way it can be argued that this is safer but my feeling is that most car seat manufacturers are very responsible.

finn · Apr 21, 2009

Thank-you

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