I played with the Avenue for the first time a few days ago when I was at Sears and I was very annoyed by the access flap (to the harness adjuster) on the cover. It's like they're trying to deceive you and make you think they moved the adjuster mechanism up higher.
The placement of the adjuster mechanism was the biggest issue with the Uptown. It's too low and that often makes it very difficult to reach when the seat is installed rf. Not always - it really depends on the contour of the vehicle seat, whether or not you're using noodles, how many noodles, etc. But it's much worse than the Scenera IMO. I almost never have problems with access to a rf Scenera adjuster.
Initially it appears that the Avenue is better in this department but they actually made it worse. Now, because the hole in the cover doesn't line up with the adjuster mechanism (at all), it's actually harder to access rf and now it's hard to access when it's ff too. If you cut a bigger hole in your cover - you could make it easy to reach at least when it's ff but who wants to do that? I just don't understand what they were thinking when they changed the Uptown cover for the Avenue.
The interesting thing with both shells (Uptown and Avenue) is that there is actually an oval-shaped cutout already there which could be a perfect location to mount the adjuster mechanism. I don't know why they don't use that location instead. I've attached a pic from my cell phone.
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Kecia