Mommy0608
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**EDITED TO ADD pic of DD in the Complete Air**
There's been a lot of talk about how the Radian and True Fit compare in shell height for rear-facing use. Here are comparison pics of my 3 year old DD, on the same day, installed in the same vehicle (2009 Grand Caravan), same seating position (2nd row passenger side captains chair).
True Fit:
Radian:
You can see she clearly has much more height room in the True Fit. :thumbsup:
Here is a side view of the Radian. I was able to get an easy, relatively upright rear-facing installation using the lap-shoulder belt (locks at retractor):
In the above pic, it looks like she has a lot of room above her head, but she's not sitting properly so the picture is deceiving. I just wanted to show the installation angle.
ETA: Here she is in the Complete Air. This isn't an accurate representation of how much room she has to grow because the headrest is not in the highest position in this picture. However, the shell itself (NOT including headrest) is about 25". The headrest extends to 27" (which is the same as the True Fit shell height), so imagine the top of the headrest 2" higher than the top of the seat shell. She looked to have the same amount of growing room in the True Fit and Complete Air, but of course the Complete Air allows use to the TOP of the headrest, not 1" below like other convertibles. My PERSONAL choice would be to use it to about 1" from the top, like other seats, so for my DD she'd have the same amount of torso growing room in both the Complete Air and True Fit. Hope that helps!
There's been a lot of talk about how the Radian and True Fit compare in shell height for rear-facing use. Here are comparison pics of my 3 year old DD, on the same day, installed in the same vehicle (2009 Grand Caravan), same seating position (2nd row passenger side captains chair).
True Fit:
Radian:
You can see she clearly has much more height room in the True Fit. :thumbsup:
Here is a side view of the Radian. I was able to get an easy, relatively upright rear-facing installation using the lap-shoulder belt (locks at retractor):
In the above pic, it looks like she has a lot of room above her head, but she's not sitting properly so the picture is deceiving. I just wanted to show the installation angle.
ETA: Here she is in the Complete Air. This isn't an accurate representation of how much room she has to grow because the headrest is not in the highest position in this picture. However, the shell itself (NOT including headrest) is about 25". The headrest extends to 27" (which is the same as the True Fit shell height), so imagine the top of the headrest 2" higher than the top of the seat shell. She looked to have the same amount of growing room in the True Fit and Complete Air, but of course the Complete Air allows use to the TOP of the headrest, not 1" below like other convertibles. My PERSONAL choice would be to use it to about 1" from the top, like other seats, so for my DD she'd have the same amount of torso growing room in both the Complete Air and True Fit. Hope that helps!
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with my True Fit. Andrea (bookmama) was kind enough to let me try out her Radian, and after seeing how much height room difference there was, plus the difficult FF installation, I'm just not feeling the love for that seat. 
