Safety 1st Complete Air max slot height is 17"

[Maedze]

So do you think it's more likely for a kid to make it to 40# RF in this seat than the MR?

Most average kids will make it to the 40 lbs in the MyRide.

The new Air Protect will definitely provide options for taller kids or thinner kids though :thumbsup:

 

[bobandjess99]

Most average kids will make it to the 40 lbs in the MyRide.

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I'm not sure I agree with this. I haven't yet sat down to think it through completely, but I'd say absolutely no more than 50% of kids would, and honestly, i'm not sure about the 50%. My dd is short and heavy, so exactly the kind of kid the mr seems designed for, and wouldn't have made it past about 35 lbs in this seat..now granted, she has a longer torso, but still...as a 40th percentile for height, 70 th percentile for weight 3.5 year old, she would have outgrown this seat at about 35 lbs.

I'd maybe say most kids with short torsoes will hit 40 in the seat...average kids I'd say maybe 50%, and kids who are overall tall, or average-short but with long torsoes probably no more than 25% of the kids will get to 40. thats just off the top of my head. Then wdeight plays in...we have kids hitting 40 at age 2...yes, most of those, even if they are tall, will hit 40 in the seat...but what about the 4, 5, 6, year olds who are just hitting 40? Many ofthem we be too tall for the seat well before 40.

 

[Madeline410]

My DS is 25-50%ile for weight and height for his age, and he is very very close to outgrowing the MR at 33-34 lbs. I wish the Air Protect was cheaper and available sooner!

 

[joolsplus3]

MA and RN are both 17, but the RN is so much more upright it lasts kids about a year longer than the MA. Britax says the top torso height for the MA is 16, I halfway think that's so people don't buy it for a kid with a torso height taller than that and then gripe that it didn't fit long enough . Wendy has a picture of a mysterious RN that has 18 inches with the cover on....
I think 17 is fine for most kids... that was 6.5 for my kid, maybe not Unityco's or AuntietoAvi's kidlets who were too tall at 3-4, but those are big guys... :twocents:

 

[cookie123]

Really? Hannah and Brett still have room in the Radian to grow and they outgrew the MA's a long time ago. Maybe around the time Matthew was born, I think.

 

[featherhead]

MA and RN are both 17, but the RN is so much more upright it lasts kids about a year longer than the MA. Britax says the top torso height for the MA is 16, I halfway think that's so people don't buy it for a kid with a torso height taller than that and then gripe that it didn't fit long enough . Wendy has a picture of a mysterious RN that has 18 inches with the cover on....
I think 17 is fine for most kids... that was 6.5 for my kid, maybe not Unityco's or AuntietoAvi's kidlets who were too tall at 3-4, but those are big guys... :twocents:

I'm pretty sure mine measures 18 with the cover on.

 

[DahliaRW]

My Radian harness (2007 model) definitely goes higher than my MA (2005 model). Ds1 sometimes climbs into ds2's rfing radian and he's under the top harness slot even with it reclined. In the MA his shoulder are a bit above, even when installed FFing completely upright.

IMO, 17" is acceptable for a seat. In all honesty, if I buy one it won't be for the ffing aspect anyways, mostly for rfing. And once ds2 outgrows it rfing it'll probably go to baby #3 and he'll go back into the radian or into the nautilus that we already own.

 

[flipper68]

I don't worry about the 4+ yr old that is too tall to RF - even if they only weigh 30 lbs, they should be plenty safe FF.

I LOVE the 40lb. limit because it reinforces the "rear facing longer" concept.

It ensures that the majority of kids (including the chunky monkeys and the long & lean kiddos) can remain rf'ing through age 2.