Archive for February, 2006
In search of car seats: crash testing
Written by jlz on February 20, 2006 – 10:14 pm -Another tidbit that we found out during our trip to Babies R Us: European car seats such as Britax are crash tested at 75 MPH, whereas the American counterparts such as Graco are tested at 45 MPH.
It’s no wonder that the European ones are so much more expensive!!!
Posted in Car Seats, Equipment | 2 Comments »In search of car seats: Graco Infant SafeSeat™ (Step 1) 8A00PSN
Written by jlz on February 18, 2006 – 4:21 pm -As anZel gets closer to come out, we are back in the search for car seats again. Today we revisited Babies R Us in Union City. The lady over there was very helpful. She explained quite a few things to us including
- Today all children are, by law, required to sit in some type of car seat or booster seat until they are six years old and 60 lbs. They are planning on changing the law sometime soon to require children to stay in a booster seat until 8 years old and 80 lbs.
- The Graco Mosaic is going to be discontinued. The Mosaic LX we saw before are still in the market.
- All Graco infant seats will snap onto the Peg-Perego Aria that we saw a while back.
We saw a new car seat today, the Graco Infant SafeSeat™ (Step 1) 8A00PSN.
It’s $129.99, weighs about 15 lbs and the baby can stay in there, rear facing, until 30 lbs.
We are now considering buying this car seat and then use it with the SnugRider Infant Carseat Frame that we already have.
