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Graco Nautilus™ 3-in-1 car seat helps keep your child secure from 20 to 100 lbs. Nautilus™ is a 3-in-1 car seat that grows as your little one continues to grow. The harness booster can be used up to 65 lbs., transitioning into a highback belt positioning booster which can be used from 30 – 100lbs, and finally into a backless belt positioning booster for a comfortable fit from 40 to 100 lbs. The seat is designed to help keep your child in a harness booster longer as well as to fit them up to 57" tall.
Graco Nautilus™ 3-in-1 car seat is extremely safe as this seat is extensively crash tested to meet or exceed U.S safety standards, side-impact testing, and outfitted with reinforced steel for effective energy management. Nautilus™ has been thoughtfully designed with plush comfort features, an integrated cup holder and storage compartments, as well as a one-hand height adjustable headrest to help keep your growing child happy on even the longest rides!
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The The Evenflo® Tribute™is a light weight and spacious convertible car seat, which provides your child with the comfort they deserve along with great convenience features for parents. This seat, along with all other Evenflo car seats, meets or exceeds all applicable United States' Federal safety standards and Evenflo's side impact test standards. Safety features of the Tribute 5™ include a 5-point harness, two piece chest-clip, four shoulder harness positions, a central front adjust for an easy harness adjustment and tether and LATCH connectors to securely fasten your child into the vehicle. The Evenflo Tribute’s 5-point harness securely fastens your child while providing up-front harness adjustment for easy access for parents. This car seat also has 2-position recline and a new body pillow and head pillow, enhancing the comfort of your child.
Some parents find it difficult to adjust and tighten the straps during installation. The straps provide discomfort to some kids as they get easily twisted from daily buckling and unbuckling.
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The Baby Trend Flex-Loc 30 Infant car seat lets you take your baby safely and comfortably, with you for those long or short road trip. This car seat can accommodate infants from 5-30 pounds (2.2 and 13.6kg) and up to 30" (76.2cm) or less, and the seat base is included. It features a beautiful butterfly pattern with soft fabric and elegant gender neutral colors. With a 5-point safety harness, your child will remain safe and secure in this toddler car seat. You can adjust these harnesses easily with just one hand. With EPS energy-absorbing foam, this safety infant car seat provides side-impact head protection to your baby while out on the road.
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The Graco Highback Turbo Booster is a well designed and well constructed booster seat that kids and adults love equally. It comes with many safety and convenient features and can securely transport kids from 30-100 lbs in high-back mode and 40-100 lbs in backless mode. With a fully adjustable headrest and armrests, the Graco High Back Turbo Booster provides a comfortable fit for kids. The EPS foam and the open-loop belt guides provide maximum protection.This booster is well-padded, lightweight and easy to install. It can be easily converted from high-back belt positioning to backless belt positioning booster. Dual hide-away cup holders are within easy reach to keep kids comfortable on even the longest journeys. When not in use, the cup holders can be hidden away giving you more space in your vehicle.
This booster seat does not have a 5-point harness system and LATCH connectors making it unsuitable for kids below 3 years of age.
Overall, the Graco Highback Turbo Booster is a great car seat and is picked by children as often as by parents.
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Lightweight and travel friendly, the BRITAX B-SAFE Infant Car Seat provides your child with comfort and safety. Featuring Side Impact Protection and an energy-absorbing foam liner, the B-SAFE car seat ensures your child is protected from all angles. For parental convenience, the seat also includes premium, push-button lower LATCH connectors, a built-in lock-off, and an ergonomically designed handle to make the seat easy to install, remove, and carry. Side Impact Protection distributes crash forces, shields from vehicle intrusion, and contains the head and body. For further safety, a tangle-free, five-point harness provides a secure fit and distributes crash forces across the strongest parts of the body. Additionally, an energy-absorbing foam liner inside the seat further absorbs and distributes crash forces.
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The Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 30 is a top rated car seat that helps keep your baby safe and secure from 4 – 30 lbs and up to 30'' tall. Its latch-equipped stay-in-car base and the easy-to-read level indicator ensure hassle-free installation. This seat is compact and easily fits in most cars.
The Graco SnugRide Classic is extremely safe as this seat is extensively crash tested to meet or exceed U.S safety standards, side-impact testing, and outfitted with reinforced steel for effective energy management. Other features include a 3- Panel rotating canopy, machine washable seat cushion and the 5-point front-adjust harness system that helps you get baby in and out easily. The removable infant head support cushions baby's head and the EPS energy absorbing foam makes it the most desirable rear-facing infant car seat.
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The Britax Marathon 70-G3 convertible car seat is a rear and forward facing recline, designed with various high-end revolutionary safety features for child’s comfort and positioning. It comes with a Safecell Technology Base which is designed to compress in crash, significantly lowering the center of gravity and counteracting the forward rotation of the child seat which normally propels the child toward the front seat. A side impact protection system comprised of deep side walls lined with energy-absorbing EPP foam distributes crash forces, shields from vehicle intrusion, and contains the head, neck and body.
The Britax Marathon 70-G3 can transport children from 5-40 pounds in rear facing position and 20-70 pounds in forward facing position. The 5-point harness is tangle free with an EZ-buckle system to retain the harness buckle in a forward position to prevent the child from sitting on the buckle when boarding. The harness holders keep the traps pulled to the sides to make boarding quick and hassle-free.
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The Safety 1st Onside Air Convertible Car Seat is a comfortable seat designed for baby’s safe travel. It comes with 4 point adjustable harness height and 3 buckle locations to help your baby fit comfortably. This seat is designed to carry a rear facing baby from 5-40 lbs and forward facing baby 22-40 lbs. The Safety 1st car seat has Air Protect Technology specially designed for added protection around the head. The advanced side impact protection shields the head and immediately reduces any side impact forces through precise release of air.
The Safety 1st Onside Air Convertible has an easy belt or latch installation process.
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The Graco My Ride 65 LX Convertible Car Seat is top of the line in safety, comfort and style. This latch-equipped car seat offers rear-facing seating for children from 5 to 40 pounds. It also comes equipped with a built in easy-to-read level indicator for hassle free rear-facing installation. You can secure your forward-facing child in a 5-point harness from 20 to 65 pounds.The My Ride 65 provides great fit and comfort for your growing child by including a removable body support. The infant insert removes easily, when your child no longer needs it and it also has a removable toddler headrest to ensure your child's comfort. The five-point harness with upfront adjustment makes securing your child in seat and removing them quick and simple. My Ride 65 features a machine-washable cover and seat cushion. Metal and plastic parts can be washed with mild soap and water, while the buckle and harness strap clean up quickly with a damp cloth. For further convenience, two integrated cup holders offer your child easy access to drinks or snacks.
Graco 65 convertible car seat is rigorously crash tested to meet or exceed US safety standards to help reassure parents. In addition to meeting or exceeding all the standards, this carseat has been side-impact tested for occupant retention by the harness system. It also features EPS energy-absorbing foam for effective impact energy management. Reviewers like that their young ones have more leg room and are quite comfortable since it has a soft padding and even when you remove the padding, when the baby outgrows the rear facing mode it is still quite soft. Some users have commented on the harness height adjustments in the rear facing mode are a little inconvenient and difficult to tighten due to the positioning.
All in all, Graco convertible 65 is terrific for your toddler and works great on long road trips. It is a durable carseat with a nice design and feels very secure when installed properly. The two cup holders for cups and snacks are a very handy feature. This is a convertible car seat that will minimize the number of other seats and boosters you'll need to buy as this practical car seat will adjust per your child's growth.
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Britax Frontier 85 Combination Booster Seat is engineered to grow with you child with its 5 point harness seat capacity. It accommodates children starting at 2 years old and 25 pounds up to 85 pounds when used as a forward-facing harnessed seat, and 40 to 120 pounds when used as a booster seat. It is available in a selection of distinctive patterns, including Rushmore, Red Rock, Onyx, Canyon, Maui Blue, and Pink Sky. It features a plush, premium cover set with underlying comfort foam that makes for a comfortable ride for your little one.
The Frontier 85 provides proper safety and posture-support for children during long car rides. In case of any unexpected intrusions it offers good side impact protection with its true patented versa-tether that introduces a staged-release tether webbing that anchors the top of the child seat at two points to minimize forward movement in a crash. It also includes quick-adjust head restraint and no-rethread harness to easily adjust the harness shoulder height and head restraint without disassembling the harness.One of the improvements over other Britax models, that the many users have liked is the fact that the latch only needs to be tightened from one side rather than two which is a big time saver and easier to do when moving it from one car to another.
It is loaded with comfort and convenient features, such as comfort foam, integrated cup holders and fixed armrests. It is the ideal seat for a child graduating from convertible car seat without compromising safety. Many users like that the booster seat's cover is easy for spot cleaning however some find it difficult to remove from the shell for cleaning up after children who are prone to car sickness. Another feature that users have mentioned is that the head positioning is better compared to other models but still the child can slump forward a bit when they doze off during a long car ride.
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The ProSPORT is a premium Combination Harness-to- Booster seat designed to offer your most precious passengers the safety you demand and the comfort they need. A stable base and reinforced side wings allow the child to be protected in the five affected areas in a side impact collision – the head, face, neck, torso, and pelvis. When the ProSPORT is used in harness mode, the five point harness system allows the child to be restrained safely for minimum movement in the event of a collision. As the child grows, this two-in-one seat can be converted into a high back booster seat to continue to safely protect the child. The harness of the ProSPORT can be removed and the seat can be adjusted to grow with your child. A universal top tether system and a built-in premium push button LATCH system also allow the seat to stay fixed to the vehicle for minimum movement.
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The Chicco KeyFit 30 Infant Car Seat is the premier infant carrier for safety, comfort, and convenience. With its removable newborn insert, the KeyFit 30 Car Seat will accommodate your baby from four to thirty pounds. The KeyFit 30’s thickly cushioned seat includes a five-point safety harness and is lined with energy-absorbing foam for increased safety and comfort. The KeyFit 30 Base’s spring-assisted level foot, two precision bubble levels, and “Center-Pull” LATCH adjustment guarantee quick and correct installment from either side of your vehicle and give you confidence that your child is safely secured in your vehicle.
This car seat is said to be easy to install. It also has easy to adjust straps to keep babies of all sizes secure and safe. This seat is comfortable because it has a good amount of padding in the seats. And the fabric that is used in the seat is easy to clean off.
An issue that people have experienced with this car seat is that during the summers, the fabric tends to get too warm, causing the baby to sweat. Another problem is that the babies outgrow this seat before they are 30lbs.
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The Maxi-Cosi Pria 70 with Tiny Fit Convertible Car Seat is designed to provide the right fit. It fits little occupants in the TinyFit™ system, starting at only 4 pounds and keeping them cozy up to 22 pounds. Remove the TinyFit system and it fits larger toddlers rear-facing from 18-40 pounds. When they're ready, turn it around to comfortably fit children up to 70 pounds forward-facing. This seat is very easy to install and all the straps are easily adjustable to fit your child comfortably. This car seat fits with a parent's protective nature. It fits with Air Protect advanced side impact protection. It fits with the safety of FlexTech for multi-directional crash energy management.
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The Peg Perego Convertible Premium Infant to Toddler Car Seat is made with the highest quality of materials, providing complete safety and peace of mind to parents of little ones. It offers added safety features like adjustable Side Impact Protection (SIP), a Shock Absorbing Foam Element (SAFE) device and Expanded Poly Styrene (EPS) energy-absorbing foam. The Convertible was designed to provide the utmost in safety and fashion. Parents will find the innovative Fresco Jersey performance fabric to comfortably suit their little ones, as well as present a chic and stylish look that would be a welcome addition to any vehicle.
The Peg Perego Convertible Premium Infant to Toddler Car Seat is very safe and comfortable. The material that the seat itself is made of is quality material that feels extremely durable. The car seat can be installed into cars effortlessly and can also switch between front facing and rear facing without difficulty. The straps of the car seat can be adjusted to comfortably fit babies of various sizes. The fabric used on the seat is also soft and adds to the comfort of the seat. Another benefit of this fabric is that it is easy to clean.
Some people have issues with the seatbelt twisting in the buckle, causing them to have to take some time to fix it once in a while. Some parents also thought that the shoulder pads were slightly stiff.
Overall, Peg Perego Convertible Premium Infant to Toddler Car Seat seems to be a good buy. It is very easy to install and use.
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The Cosco Scenera® Convertible Car Seat gives you two cars seats in one! Starting as a rear-facing car seat for babies from 5-35 pounds, it easily converts over to a forward-facing seat for children from 22-40 pounds. There are four different harness locations to accommodate your growing child and a 5-point harness system with center front harness adjustment which makes it easy for you to give your little one a snug fit. This car seat also features a removable cup holder which is a handy place to rest a drink or small snack during the ride. Cosco Scenera® is a comfortable and lightweight car seat. It is sturdy and is good quality for its low price. This car seat is very easy to install as well as is adjustable to fit babies of all sizes. It can carry children from infants to toddlers.
Some issues that people have with this car seat are that it does not have enough padding and it can feel a bit hard. Another issue is that the seat does not feel safe and sturdy when used as a rear facing seat. It moves around and does not sit properly.
Overall, Cosco Scenera® Convertible Car Seat is a good and affordable car seat. It serves its purpose and is of reasonable quality for its cheap price. This seat looks good and is safe.
