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We do not own this car seat but rented one on our last vacation. Poor quality and difficult to secure/buckle in the car.
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The pros: This seat is very light. Much lighter than the car seat I purchased for my first child 5 years ago. I can carry her around for quite some time in it, and the seat adds very little to her weight.The price is right. I don't believe in paying $400 for a car seat that has the same safety rating as one that costs 1/5 of that price. That's why I've purchased multiple Cosco brand seats.
The cons: You can't adjust the shoulder straps while the seat is in the base. And it's even kind of difficult to adjust the straps with a baby in it. That's because the straps are only adjustable from the rear, and require wiggling them out of little toothed metal pieces that hold them in place. I've purchased several other Cosco models, and they were all adjustable from the front by depressing a rectangular button. You'd press on the button to loosen the straps, and pull on the straps from the front to tighten them. It was the same with other brands of car seat I've owned. This feature is great when you want to change the strap tightness from day to day to accommodate the presence or absence of bulky clothing. After half a dozen car seats between my children, I assumed all car seats were this way. But not this one. It can take several minutes to change the strap tightness, with or without the child in the seat, and it's impossible to do so if the seat is connected to the base. No more last minute strap adjustments for us. If I'd known this beforehand, I'm sure I wouldn't have purchased it. It's that much of a pain.
Also, some reviewers have complained that the seat won't latch to the base. We thought so to, until we read the instructions. There are two red rods that stick out the side of the seat, toward the rear. Those rods are meant to be aligned with notches in the base. We thought those rods were supposed to lock in place, which is why we repeatedly set the rods into the notches, and then were dismayed when we could still lift out the seat without disengaging the lock. Then we read the obvious instructions on the side of the seat. It states quite clearly that the rods are not meant to attach the seat to the base. They merely help guide you into locking the seat properly. The seat locks into the base at the front of the seat, not the rear. If you align the rods to the notches, then press the seat into the base at the front, rather than the rear, it will snap in quite easily.
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