good, cheap, convertable carseats?

ucgrad · August 2010

I need to buy a new carseat for my parents car. They live in Indiana, and we only go there a couple times a year, so I don't want to spend a huge amount of money. I know there are good ones besides the super expensive ones we have at home. What do you have in your parents/in-laws cars?

nutmegger · August 2010

I think we're going to get a Costco Scenera for ILs' car. You can get them for about $50 with a discount code at Albee Baby.

anonsouthernbell · August 2010

I really like the Graco My Ride 65. I bought a cheaper pattern w. a BRU coupon for (including tax) $110. I know that sometimes people buy them off of Walmart too for even less.

KRMac · August 2010

I've seen this seat recommended on this board before (filed it away for the future!) and it is a decent deal right now! We plan to get one for DCP when DS outgrows the infant seat.

https://www.babycheapskate.com/2010/08/06/31-off-cosco-scenera-convertible-car-seat/

KathrynMD · August 2010

nutmegger:
I think we're going to get a Costco Scenera for ILs' car. You can get them for about $50 with a discount code at Albee Baby.

this is what my mom has too

We have Evenflos' for our cars - they were about 120/each

autumn bliss · August 2010

We plan to get the Cosco Scenera for DH's car...we have the Britax Marathon for mine since DD will be in my car the majority of the time.

jcsntms06 · August 2010

.KRM.:
I've seen this seat recommended on this board before (filed it away for the future!) and it is a decent deal right now! We plan to get one for DCP when DS outgrows the infant seat.
https://www.babycheapskate.com/2010/08/06/31-off-cosco-scenera-convertible-car-seat/

We have this car seat currently in DH small accord. I may be picking up another one for my aunt's car.

daisyterp · August 2010

do you fly to indiana?

Is there a reason you wouldn't just bring your seat along with you?

You can check a convertible car seat as luggage and it doesn't count as a checked bag. Also I know a lot of people swear by the little wheelie things that you use in the airport to convert the bigger carseats into a strollers, then you can just gate check the seat, or if there ends up being an extra seat on the plane you can put the LO in the carseat on the plane.

Keep in mind that once your LO is 2, you will need to buy a seat anyway. We just flew with DD this past weekend and had her in her convertible seat on the plane and it worked out great- she was super comfortable, etc.

ucgrad · August 2010

Thanks everyone!

daisy- I had a whole reasoning written out here about why I don't want to buy another one to travel with. Then, I realized, even if I send one to my parents now, you're right, next year, we'll have to lug one back and forth, so the one they would be getting now will end up being an extra. Sigh. I don't want to lug around a carseat even though it is a guarantee that we'll have to in the near future. Thanks for bringing this up!

daisyterp · August 2010

I thought it was going to be hellish traveling w/ 2, but it wasn't that bad- we brought the infant carrier for DS and checked it @ the counter, then stuck the convertible seat on top of our stroller (wish we had brought bungee cords to secure it, but we forgot them last minute.) It wasn't any harder to go through security or anything.

I know a lot of ppl love these things for travel - personally I would rather invest in one of these than buy an extra carseat that would rarely be used.

https://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=go-go+kidz&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=5280704336556991775&ei=MwRkTM28EMG88gausvyFCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEQQ8wIwAg#

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