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Cosco 40 RF car seat anyone?

lisac1017lisac1017 member
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Does anyone have the Cosco Apt 40 RF car seat?  I'm trying to find safety reviews on it but am having trouble coming up with anything other than basic specs. 

There is a program (I think it might be national) called safekids.org that will provide and install this car seat for a $25 donation.  (it's $60 or so retail).  I'd like to take advantage of the program but wanted to get some insight on the seat also. 

I did read that it goes up to 40 lbs, so I guess after that we will need to get another seat for over 40 lbs.  I am not great at figuring out how much a kid should weigh by what age.  All I know is he is 25 1/2 lbs at 15 months, but he is now too long for his infant seat so we need to make a decision here fast. 

Thanks for any insight you may have!

here is the seat:  https://coscojuvenile.djgusa.com/en/djgusa/cosco-juvenile/convertible-car-seats-10157--1/apt-40rf-convertible-car-seat---graydon-cc047brv

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  • christinak22christinak22 member

    I think I have this one and it's perfectly fine. I'd definitely go for it, especially for only $25!

    And my 3.5 year old daughter is 36 pounds. The seat may very well last until he is big enough for a booster. 

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  • preggersin2011preggersin2011 member
    I have a cosco seat that i picked up from walmart as our back up seat. it was the biggest PITA to install and it was a huge PITA to use.  safety wise they all have to meat the same minimum standards to legally be sold. I tried using their latch syste
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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member
    It makes a great back up seat, but I wouldn't want it for a full time seat. It has pretty much no padding. Safety wise, they all pass the same testing and are equally safe, just there are more comfy seats out there.
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  • egfegf member
    The Cosco scenera actually has very high ratings at consumer reports.
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    The Cosco scenera actually has very high ratings at consumer reports.

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  • ladybugpjbladybugpjb member

    DS has been in this seat since he outgrew his infant seat. He's been perfectly fine in it, even though it doesn't have a bunch of padding or anything. We did a lot of driving over the holidays, and he was fine. I like that it has the cupholders, but th

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  • lisac1017lisac1017 member
    Thanks everyone for the replies. Sounds like we'll get this for DH's car since he is only in that for short trips and get him something more comfortable for my car. The good thing is they will install it for us and fit it for DS so we don't have to deal w
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