Qarin
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I feel like maybe I've heard of this before, but I'm not sure.
I pulled the Evenflo Triumph out of my MIL's car today, because DD2 has hit 40lbs and I didn't want to risk MIL using the carseat anyway. She mentioned how it had hardly been used (true! 1-3x/month since it was purchased sometime before DD2 was a year old), and I thought yeah, I could probably find a home for it, let me just check it DOM...
The sticker on the back give a manufacture date of Feb 19, 2004 (which is at least a year before it was purchased, but within what I've kind of come to expect of these things, when purchased by Grandma; I do believe she purchased it new), but then the base was stamped, "Do not use this restraint after December 17, 2007". !
With less than a year before the latest possible expiration, I'm not going to pass it along to anyone (nobody I know and trust not to use it longer needs it, and I'm not giving it to someone I suspect doesn't understand/wouldn't pay attention), but on top of that, with the base being... could it be that the base was made in 2001, but attached to the seat in 2004? It seems like a lot off for it to be a "factory worker didn't remember to increment the year on the stamp" problem.
I'm pretty irritated to think that we were possibly using that restraint well over a year past its expiration.
I pulled the Evenflo Triumph out of my MIL's car today, because DD2 has hit 40lbs and I didn't want to risk MIL using the carseat anyway. She mentioned how it had hardly been used (true! 1-3x/month since it was purchased sometime before DD2 was a year old), and I thought yeah, I could probably find a home for it, let me just check it DOM...
The sticker on the back give a manufacture date of Feb 19, 2004 (which is at least a year before it was purchased, but within what I've kind of come to expect of these things, when purchased by Grandma; I do believe she purchased it new), but then the base was stamped, "Do not use this restraint after December 17, 2007". !
With less than a year before the latest possible expiration, I'm not going to pass it along to anyone (nobody I know and trust not to use it longer needs it, and I'm not giving it to someone I suspect doesn't understand/wouldn't pay attention), but on top of that, with the base being... could it be that the base was made in 2001, but attached to the seat in 2004? It seems like a lot off for it to be a "factory worker didn't remember to increment the year on the stamp" problem.
I'm pretty irritated to think that we were possibly using that restraint well over a year past its expiration.
