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I love Graco. I am a mom to 5 kids. I always buy Graco. I bought this seat and assumed that all Graco's were equal. It is a good car seat, but it is missing a few bells and whistles that I had with my last Graco infant seat that I LOVED.
First, there is no way to adjust the straps from the front. You have to adjust from the back side of the carseat. My other Graco had a strap and a button that you could push from the top/front. So if you stick your baby in and she has a sweater on, there's no way to make a quick adjustment of the straps. You have to pull her all the way out, flip the car seat over, and then pull more strap out. It is a pain!! Get the model that has the ability to do that! Well worth the extra money.
Second, the shade has elastic to hook onto the back part of the chair. My very first Graco from 10 years ago had this, and I was excited when my 2nd Graco had improved this feature I thought all of the car seats would have had this improvement done. NOT SO! So here's the deal: if the sun is coming in on the baby from an angle that is not behind her or on top of her (if it is coming more from her feet), you can't pull the shade that way to block it. Because the elastic part isn't hard, when you pull it downward, it just hangs in the baby's face... That's probably fine when you're outside and you can just turn the seat away from the sun, but when you're driving, you're stuck!!! Again, get the next model. I promise, this is one of the more frustrating things about this car seat. I wish I would've realized this.
In conclusion, this carseat is an okay, BASIC car seat. I do love Graco and will always buy Graco. BUT, this car seat is lacking 2 features that are sooo very useful and essential in the day to day functionality of a good infant seat. I WISH I would've known before I bought this. I would've looked further and spent a little more money to get the improved version.
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I thought the other reviewers were being whiny; I had a Graco Snugride 22 for my first kid (a hand me down) and only bought a new one because it expired. I liked that Snugride just fine (it is a 2005 model). I bought this new snugride 22 without much research at all, because I knew I liked the old one. I was wrong about the other reviewers! The fabric is very loud (my old snugride had soft fabric). The canopy cannot be lowered to cover the front of the seat, if the baby's face is in the sun from other than the "default" position, because it only stays "up" when the back is around the back of the seat (my old snugride was adjustable to the front position). And worst of all the straps tighten independently, from the BACK of the seat. That is the left strap tightens separately from the right strap. You have to do them one first, then the other. And you can't do them when you're sitting in the front of the seat; you have to turn the seat around. Then you can't see what's going on in front (baby side of the seat) as you do it. So you have to go back and forth, back and forth, multiple times. And it is practically impossible to make the straps tight enough. We asked for a return label for this car seat the day we received it. A ridiculously difficult to use product; why did they ruin a good seat with these changed, I have no idea. We are instead going to try the Evenflo Serenade, which we just received today and which looks PERFECT in every way. Hope it works out perfectly, because we love the Evenflo Triumph for our older kid.
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