Evenflo SureRide coming to Canada an sooner than planned?

[canadiangie]

I see the BRU site says June. Has anyone heard anything about it surfacing sooner up here?

Looks like a great puzzling seat as its said to be one inch less wide at the base than the MR65. With 19" top slots and allowing for use up to 65lbs, and at $139, I'm thinking this will be a great addition to our seat market.

And I know of a family who could use one right now for a tight 3 across puzzling situation.

Anyone hear any rumours?

 

[snowbird25ca]

It was initially supposed to be instock in December according to a newsletter. I looked it up in our system a few weeks ago and there are open orders, but the date of arrival has been pushed back a number of times.

I wouldn't count on it coming sooner than June unfortunately. If it does it will be a nice surprise, but I'm guessing they waited to put it up online until the date was more definite and with the delays already, I wouldn't expect it before then.

 

[Pixelated]

Have they fixed the harness length issue do you know? I think that was the US seat that had all those great specs but the actual length of the harness would never fit a child at the top slots.

 

[Brianna]

Have they fixed the harness length issue do you know? I think that was the US seat that had all those great specs but the actual length of the harness would never fit a child at the top slots.

It appears so- pics here http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=242145 and here http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=241536
There may be a few children that it still doesn't fit, but at this point it's looking promising.

 

[Pixelated]

Awesome, I cant't wait to see it then!

 

[Dani_mummy]

I was looking at the manual online. It looks like in the US they can use all bottom 3 slots and the bottom slot of the top group for RF but here we can only use the bottom 3 group.
Little sad about that but this is what we are getting as our second/grandparent seat for my youngest.

 

[snowbird25ca]

I'm wondering if the US seat is also dual certified in this case?

I guess the slot limits will limit height differently in Canada than the US, but the harness slippage can't be too big a deal when a child is close to nearing the next set of slots or else they wouldn't allow the next ones up to be used in the US either. (Kids will be even with that set of slots before the straps get moved up, so they obviously feel that it's ok for kids to be that tall in the seat - they just don't want the seat used to quite the same height in Canada for whatever reason - either that or they don't want to re-test to change the approval for Canada.. that's another possibility.)

 

[Dani_mummy]

If the seat is dual certified, does that mean we could buy it in the US?

 

[creideamh]

I've checked the Evenflo seats here in the US (SecureKid, SureRide, Maestro, Chase Select/SK 100) for the Canadian stickers and they are not on our seats. The labels do say "For Canadian users: register this child restraint, blah blah" underneath where it talks about being certified for the US and on planes, but I believe they only put the maple leaf stickers on the Canadian-sold ones. (Makes sense...costs less to only add them for you.)

 

[snowbird25ca]

I've checked the Evenflo seats here in the US (SecureKid, SureRide, Maestro, Chase Select/SK 100) for the Canadian stickers and they are not on our seats. The labels do say "For Canadian users: register this child restraint, blah blah" underneath where it talks about being certified for the US and on planes, but I believe they only put the maple leaf stickers on the Canadian-sold ones. (Makes sense...costs less to only add them for you.)

Interesting. I wonder if we're going to see bolsters added to our seat and it will end up being physically different than yours - we just are sharing manual and labels so it will be another seat that when bought in Canada is approved for the US, but not vice versa?