Car seat

ttgcole · June 2011

Backstory:

Some "friends" of ours gave us their car seat, I knew it hadn't been in an accident. All of a sudden my DH got a text from the guy asking if we were done with the seat because his daughter needs it. Um why in the he** would we be done with it when A is only 21 mo. Needless to say we need a carseat. I want a Britax but it's out of our budget. So what would be the next best thing?

TIA

StellaZ · June 2011

That sucks, did they give it to your or "loan" it...anyway, weird.

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**Note: After having a puking incident on Tuesday and having to clean our Britax - it was a PAIN-IN-THE-ASS and took DH 3 hours. I don't know if others are any better, but I also HATE the way you tighten these kind. Going back I would totally have got an Evenflo Triumph.

blueLu25 · June 2011

We just bought our second Evenflo seat and LOVE them both! Great safety rating, easy to install, easy to deal with the straps, etc and the kids love them. DS still asks to go back in his Triumph (DD is in it now).

Seattle_JiLLn · June 2011

We have evenflo triumph advance dl? Dlx? Something like that. I wouldn't call them second best. I think they are rated just as high as the britax. Without the price tag.

IdahoGirl · June 2011

I *just* bought 3 Evenflow Triumphs. I was totally sold on having to have a Britax...until I looked at Consumer Reports and saw taht the Triumph was out ranking the Boulevard in safety ratings.

The Triumph even outranks Evenflow's newest model in safety ratings.

ttgcole · June 2011

Thanks ladies!

I thought after I said next best thing, that I probably worded it wrong. Not at all what I meant.

And yes they gave it to us, not a loaner. It's so weird. We used to be very close, but they have totally pulled away. Don't know why, don't have the energy to care. Besides the fact that DH can't stand the wife...

StellaZ · June 2011

ttgcole:
And yes they gave it to us, not a loaner. It's so weird. We used to be very close, but they have totally pulled away. Don't know why, don't have the energy to care. Besides the fact that DH can't stand the wife...

In that case I'd say "We thought you gave it to us. Austin will need it for another 3 years at least." and leave it at that. If they get snotty, then drop it on their doorstep I guess.

Seattle_JiLLn · June 2011

Are you rear facing or forward? If you've moved to forward you culd also look at the car seats that only do FF and then turn into boosters. We just got an evenflo maestro for Ben. It harnesses like a car seat up to fifty pounds and then is a seat belt booster til 100 I think. But it doesn't do rear facing.

ChubbyCheekiesMom · June 2011

Seattle_JiLLn:
We have evenflo triumph advance dl? Dlx? Something like that. I wouldn't call them second best. I think they are rated just as high as the britax. Without the price tag.

We have this one as well, and I love it! It's big so he is comfy, and easy to adjust the straps (FF, RFing can be a PITA at times). It's also easy to install.

ttgcole · June 2011

StellaZ:
ttgcole:
And yes they gave it to us, not a loaner. It's so weird. We used to be very close, but they have totally pulled away. Don't know why, don't have the energy to care. Besides the fact that DH can't stand the wife...

In that case I'd say "We thought you gave it to us. Austin will need it for another 3 years at least." and leave it at that. If they get snotty, then drop it on their doorstep I guess.

I totally would do this, but his daughter is 19 had an "oops" baby and I know she needs the car seat more than we do. The other kicker is that we are storing their boat on the side of our house...

ttgcole · June 2011

Seattle_JiLLn:
Are you rear facing or forward? If you've moved to forward you culd also look at the car seats that only do FF and then turn into boosters. We just got an evenflo maestro for Ben. It harnesses like a car seat up to fifty pounds and then is a seat belt booster til 100 I think. But it doesn't do rear facing.

We are FF so this is a great tip, thank you!

blueLu25 · June 2011

ttgcole:
Seattle_JiLLn:
Are you rear facing or forward? If you've moved to forward you culd also look at the car seats that only do FF and then turn into boosters. We just got an evenflo maestro for Ben. It harnesses like a car seat up to fifty pounds and then is a seat belt booster til 100 I think. But it doesn't do rear facing.

We are FF so this is a great tip, thank you!

The maestro is the second seat we got and its great!

Seattle_JiLLn · June 2011

ttgcole:
Seattle_JiLLn:
Are you rear facing or forward? If you've moved to forward you culd also look at the car seats that only do FF and then turn into boosters. We just got an evenflo maestro for Ben. It harnesses like a car seat up to fifty pounds and then is a seat belt booster til 100 I think. But it doesn't do rear facing.
We are FF so this is a great tip, thank you!

Here's my other tip - We went to get the Graco Nautilus 3 in 1 at Target when it was on sale. Of course they were out of stock. So I got a rain check. The rain check said you could also get a "similar" item for the same % off. So we instead got the Maestro for 23% off so it was only $60-ish. Such a steal. So you might look and see if Target has any sales since everything they have on sale is always sold out.