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Recommend your stable but easy-to-move carseat?

jetgrrrljetgrrrl member
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I bought a Graco My Ride 65 for our youngest (14 months) and oldest (3 years) to both use, but neither DH nor I can get it to be sufficiently stable (using latch) in the rear or forward facing positions. So we are sending it back :-(. I ordered it in part because it has the simple black clips, which we find much easier to use, rather than the more complicated ones that have the button you need to push to open up the very small clip at the end. The ones with the black clips tend to come on cheaper models, which is fine with me! Obviously the models we purchased for our three year old are no longer around so I'm wondering what has worked for others. Thanks!
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Re: Recommend your stable but easy-to-move carseat?

  • jetgrrrljetgrrrl member
    My 3-year-old is pretty small (he might be just of 30 lbs soaking wet) so not sure if he's ready even for a pretty heavy-duty booster, but I'll look into the Nautilus, thanks. But frankly we'd like to take advantage of this period when we can put them both in the same seats. I know the 1-year-old is supposed to be rear-facing but we had turned our 3-year-old around by now (before the recommendations changed) and for running around town I do let my 1-year-old face front sometimes.
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  • NicoleWINicoleWI member
    Britax! I've tried several brands and the Britax seats (for convertible seats) are by far my favorite.
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  • Jen&LenJen&Len

    I found the Britax seats to be the easiest to install, even though it has the release button.  You don't actually have to push the button to install them...you just push against the LATCH and the clasp releases and closes by itself.  You just need to push the button to release the clasp.

    THat being said, 3 out of the 4 car seats we have are Graco's (2 Nautilus' and 1 Graco MyRide 65).  I was able to get all of them secure with LATCH.  I kneel with one knee in the car seat and put my body weight on that one knee and then tighten in order to get the seat firmly against the back and bottom of the seat.  Maybe that will help?

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  • WorcbrideWorcbride member
    Evenflo Symphany--it is a self tightener;  we own 4--love them!
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  • kegkeg member
    I find out Britax Boulevards really easy to install with LATCH.  I will say that I have a set of Cosco Sceneras that are really inexpensive seats and are great for travel, but I don't feel that I can get them tight enough with a LATCH install (I think they have what you are calling the simple black clips).  I just install them with the seatbelt and feel I get a much better install that way.  Just another option. 
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  • etude de la vieetude de la vie member
    Britax!!! Very easy with latch or the belt and it hardly moves an inch! We have the roundabout 55. 
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  • penguingrrlpenguingrrl member

    Just an FYI, but all harnessed seats adhere to the same standards for forward facing use. So using a  nautilus in harnessed mode instead of a FF myride does not present any sort of safety difference. So if the 3 year old is and will remain FF I would not get a convertible seat for him. I would get a combination seat, like the nautilus, which is a FF seat then a booster since that will last a lot longer. The only thing I will warn is that if your 1 year old uses the FF seat sometimes (which I strongly advise against; the recommendations were in place when your 3 year old was 1 as well, my 3 year old just turned around this summer when she hit the height limit on her radian) you cannot get a britax frontier because that has a 2 year minimum to use it.

    As far as tightening, were you putting all of your weight into it as tightening it. I always have to put all my weight into seats while tightening. Also, you can try a seatbelt install before you give up on the seat. LATCH is supposed to make installing a seat easier, but doesn't affect the safety of it. I generally find a seatbelt install easier personally.

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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member

    Can your 3 year old RF in it? Then you wouldn't need to move it.

     I have found Graco seats to be really easy to install. Are you leaning your own body weight into the seat as you tighten? I kneel into it. 

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