Child convertible car seats
Child convertible car seats
Child convertible car seats
Graco ComfortSport at Target in Sept of 2010 as an emergency replacement
for our previous carseat after an accident. (We actually got the
Creighton model.) I have 3 major concerns about the safety of this seat:
1)
The shoulder straps do not tighten evenly. After looking at the back of
the seat I realized this is due to the design of the set yoke; most
seats have two individual hooks for the shoulder belts, tightened by a
single pull strap. The ComfortSport overlaps the two shoulder straps
under a single hook and one strap will always be a little looser than
the other. This also crates the potential for the overlapping strap to
slip out of the hook, as it is barely held in place by the hook.
Child convertible car seats
2) The chest plate is easy to unbuckle, even for young children. I
looked up advice on how to solve this issue on Graco's website-
apparently many parents were having the same issues and Graco's response
was that parents should just explain to their children why they need to
keep the belt on. After pulling over 10+ times on a two-hour trip
because my 2 year old didn't understand my explaining on why this belt
was intended to keep him safe, I settled on buying self-adhesive Ace
wrap to wrap around the buckle so he couldn't mess with it.
Child convertible car seats
3) The tightening plate on our model broke after only 11 months of use. I
was tightening the strap, as usuall, and the single screw the holds the
plate in place pulled out and flew somewhere in the car. If this had
happened during an accident, the shoulder straps would have been
loosened about 2 inches and greatly reduced the protection of the seat.
Child convertible car seats
I had contaceted Graco regauding my concerns about the seat, and asking
for a refund. They sent me a letter stating that if I had problems with
their product, I should ship it to them at MY expense and they would
replace the seat with another one of the same model- no refund. Needless
to say I just went out and bought a different, better rated seat for my
son.
Child convertible car seats
