Cheap Graco Nautilus Elite 3-in-1 Car Seat

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Our daughter outgrew her infant seat a couple of months ago, and so we've been looking for a replacement for a while. This stood out, or rather the earlier model did, as it was getting among the highest reviews here and on other sites, both consumer and safety scores were among the highest.

There were a few main critiques, such as overall comfort and the limited time span of the five point harness due to not having another slot for slightly larger kids.

My parents ended up getting us the Nautilus. Then, this one became available. So, I have both and am happy to say that the Nautilus Elite is everything the earlier version was while addressing some of the earlier concerns. The five point harness has that extra slot, letting it be used for larger kids. Everything is cleanable, and there's a bit more padding throughout, including on the straps. The head rest adjusts not only upwards, but also in and out, making for a larger or smaller space for children's head. Everything else is pretty much the same. Slightly different coloring system, but very comfortable all around for my daughter.

In fact, this Elite got a big test the last two weeks. We drove up to Portland and back from the Los Angeles area. A thousand miles each way. That's something. Our daughter not only survived the trip but was positively a great traveler. While she got antsy every so often, at no point was the car seat a problem. Indeed, it was a great boon in every way, a great protection and an all around comfortable seat. We took two days to drive up and two days to drive down. Ten hours the first day, about six the second (no more than two hours at a time without a stop). She did great. Had morning and afternoon naps, woke up refreshed and happy. She had good head support and was apparently very comfortable. No strap marks or other signs that she had been sitting in the seat that long.

Before we put it in, our daughter liked to sit in it as a casual chair! So, it's comfortable from her perspective!

It's very easy to install, both with the Latch system and with older cars that need the seat belts (like ours). Takes less than a couple of minutes. Everything adjusts easy. I'm definitely looking forward to having this for a long while and testing out its suitability for a bigger child. Here in California, we need car seats for a long while, and this one looks to go the distance until our daughter is driving herself around.

Some might have different experiences, but for us, after 2200 miles of driving the last couple of weeks, I couldn't be more pleased or recommend this more highly.

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My almost 2 year old needed a new front facing seat and the price and reviews for this seat are great. I liked the orange color and the rest of the color scheme. Turns out that most of the orange is in the extra seat padding which we took out. So the color is more just brown and white. Overall I like the sturdiness of the seat, my kid loves the cup holder. He looks comfortable in the seat. While not deal breaker, the single latch belt is inferior to the double/individual latch systems that you find in other car seat brands. It is much harder to tighten, but once you've secured it, it's in there, we don't plan to take the seat in and out of the car, so it's not a real problem. The chest clip on the 5 point restraint is not easy to undo, but that could be seen as a good thing: if I can barely get it open, a child will have real difficulty. Again, not a deal breaker but somewhat inconvenient. So far, overall, I am happy with the look and feel of this seat. It has met my expectations.

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Wanted to buy the Elite Nautilus for the feature of having the seatbelt lock attached to the car seat rather than the metal clip that the regular Nautilus has (why on earth do they not make the regular Nautilus w/ the updated seatbelt lock?!). We owned the Nautilus before & loved it (and updated b/c we were involved in a car wreck and the insurance company was paying for us to get new ones...yeah!). If you've ever used that awful metal clip seatbelt lock you know what a huge pain it is and takes forever to install it correctly & safely.

I've owned this car seat (& the other one that they call "Vice" in color) for several months now and we like it. The only difference between it and the regular Nautilus is the seatbelt lock & the head piece can be adjusted on this one (a feature I haven't used yet).

The only downside I've come across is that my son (3YO and average height & weight) complains sometimes that it hurts his peepee. I think it's because at those times that he complains his butt is scooted forward and he just needs to scoot it back. Wish they had a better crotch strap adjust but in the end I would still recommend.

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I got this to fit in the back of my 2011 CRV and it fits well despite seeming really big out of the package. There is so much padding this too and I love that it has an attached cup holder and adjustable headrest. This is the first car seat that my daughter has been able to fall asleep in. In her other ones she would cry all the time in the car. I think they may have been uncomfortable for her. The wings of the headrest can be adjusted so they come in and my daughter lays her head against it to fall asleep. The only thing is that this is really heavy! I was surprised how heavy it was. Overall I am happy with my purchase.

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We bought this after returning a Britax Frontier 90 (because it doesn't have a "backless booster" mode, and the head protection is WAAAY too deep for comfort), and we kept it and like it. It's well designed and pretty easy to use and looks nice, and my tall near-4yo likes it. My only gripe is that I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why I couldn't get the seatbelt attachment to hold it stable until I finally found the one note on one page of the instructions that says you're only supposed to clamp one side of the seatbelt, not both. (My instinct was to clamp both, based on the design and the diagrams.)

I'm very good at reading instructions I'd sat down at the kitchen table and read through them front-to-back before I even attempted to start putting this in. So it's pretty easy to miss this one note and if I hadn't kept going back at it, sure that something was wrong, I'd be driving around with a very loose car seat today. So, I took off one star for that.