my first curbside rescue: RIP Century Prestige

Irishmama · May 12, 2009

So I was driving home and saw this seat in the trash. Couldn't help myself, brought it home to let dh and the kids destroy. Now dh admits car seats can be fun

The DOM on it is January 1995, and the funk it was growing, oh my. Just had to share the pics of it.

Does this make me a car seat nerd?

zactayaus · May 12, 2009

My dd born in 1998 had that seat.

xxluckychicxx · May 12, 2009

What is that attached to the bottom of it?

Irishmama · May 12, 2009

It looked to me like a seat protector for the car's upholstery. It's thin rubbery material and says Century on it.

We had fun destroying it, sawed it in half from top to bottom and cut out where the crotch buckle attaches, cut the OHS part in half, and cut all the straps. Then we let the kids take hammers to it. Poor seat.

*Spoiledinmyhouseofblue* · May 12, 2009

What and you didn't call me to have fun too?

Hey, M's city wide garage sale is this weekend

I am sure tons will be there.

My town's was last weekend and I saw TONS AND TONS of seats, especially by the richer homes in the highlands ;-)

Irishmama · May 12, 2009

Sorry I barely had it out of the van and dh had the saw out, lol. The kids had so much fun hitting it with hammers too.

Maybe we could get magnets made for the side of our van's "Car Seat Rescue" and go around and rescue (and then destroy) all the expired seats, lol. I think we'd need capes for that though.

I'm always hesitant to tell people that they shouldn't be selling expired seats, I hate confrontation. I'm afraid they'll get mad I'm being nosy, ya know?

April · May 13, 2009

OMG, I swear to you, that is the EXACT seat that DH had Rayn in when we got together. (A mere couple of years ago!)

Laurette · May 13, 2009

I want to see the carseat murder pics! lol

Irishmama · May 13, 2009

April said:
OMG, I swear to you, that is the EXACT seat that DH had Rayn in when we got together. (A mere couple of years ago!)

That's scary

Laurette said:
I want to see the carseat murder pics! lol

I didn't get pics during the actual dismantling, I was keeping dd2 out of the path of destruction, lol. But I can get pics of the pieces; tomorrow should be good weather. It dawned on me I should get pics of the rf belt path, it's like a baby bucket seat, with slots on either side and the belt routing over baby's legs on top of the seat. It was interesting!

Irishmama · May 13, 2009

Here's the funk it was growing...eeeewwwwww.

heyruthie · May 13, 2009

reminds me of what i encountered ealier this week in an audiologist's office (I guess they use it if they need to strap a kid into a seat for some reason.) she assured me it was not for motor vehicle use! (but at least it's a 5-pt. harness. It was probably innovative at the time!)

Check out this thing! I don't think I like to imagine what this could do to a child's crotch in an accident!

*Spoiledinmyhouseofblue* · May 13, 2009

HA! Love the magnet idea. LOL! Capes! We can borrow my son's capes.
Oh my it would be so funny!
I did see my neighbor the other day throw out a britax seat. It was so nasty and had stuff growing on it. UGGH!! Luckily, when I walked by I saw there was no straps. The weird thing is it went missing the next day.
I could totally see someone using it as a booster(even though it looked like a very old marathon maybe?)

Irishmama · May 14, 2009

I tried to add the moldy pics but it won't let me add pics without deleting the first three pics. How do I do that?

Jeanum · May 14, 2009

Hmm, I'm not sure what the max. is for attaching pictures but it seems like you must have reached it.

You could try putting the remaining pictures up on an online photo hosting site like photobucket.com and then posting the photo links here. :twocents:

WhatAboutPuppy · May 14, 2009

I bet your RF BP looks similar to this...
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You can almost see it peeking out in the side view, real convient for RF I'm sure. lol
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Irishmama · May 14, 2009

Yep, that's exactly what it looks like. I've never seen that before, but then I'm new to this whole car seat obsession thing.

Hmmm, maybe I'll just have to remove the previous pics, or at least one or two of them and post the after pics.

joolsplus3 · May 14, 2009

heyruthie said:
reminds me of what i encountered ealier this week in an audiologist's office (I guess they use it if they need to strap a kid into a seat for some reason.) she assured me it was not for motor vehicle use! (but at least it's a 5-pt. harness. It was probably innovative at the time!)

Check out this thing! I don't think I like to imagine what this could do to a child's crotch in an accident!
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It's softer than a polyester crotch strap (so, padding for the pulled-to-a-rock-hard-tautness-strap in a crash), though, and made it much easier to buckle

I wish we could have those things back

Consumer Reports LOVED that seat, just LOVED it, even when it was the last one to go to RF 22 pounds, and the seatbelt went over the lap when RF. It was cheap, so it was good, I guess

heyruthie · May 15, 2009

joolsplus3 said:
It's softer than a polyester crotch strap (so, padding for the pulled-to-a-rock-hard-tautness-strap in a crash), though, and made it much easier to buckle I wish we could have those things back

Consumer Reports LOVED that seat, just LOVED it, even when it was the last one to go to RF 22 pounds, and the seatbelt went over the lap when RF. It was cheap, so it was good, I guess

that's hilarious! it just goes to show how much i know about crash dynamics! i agree that the buckle must be WAY easy to access that way!

joolsplus3 · May 15, 2009

heyruthie said:
that's hilarious! it just goes to show how much i know about crash dynamics! i agree that the buckle must be WAY easy to access that way!

I know! I bet tons of parents rush to boosters because they can't stand digging crotch straps out from under big kids' bums... Graco bought Century, so if it's patented at least THEY could use it again :twocents:

Irishmama · May 16, 2009

I posted the end result pics I promised on the car seat murder thread.

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