Anyone See/Use This Booster?

[lucyem]

http://www.leapsandbounds.com/catalo...tegoryId=85252

It says it is: Award winning: winner of the iParenting Media Award, iParenting Hot Winner, NAPPA Gold Award, Fit Pregnancy Magazine Best Product of the Year Award

I need something now that my 3 yr old is getting out of our Britax Wizard. I also want something a bit narrower then the Wizard so we might actually fit a person between the kids in the back seat.

[DevaMajka]

I've not used it, but it harnesses to 60lbs, and has top harness slots that are pretty high according to http://www.carseatdata.org/cnt/resou...t-measurements.
So your dc would probably be able to harness for quite a while in it, and that's a good thing


(you'll probably get more responses in the family safety forum)

[alegna]

It's been a long time since I researched it, but as I recall there were some significant downsides to the go.

It's not listed on the above link... the regular safeguard seat is- different seat.

I think it may not really have very high slots.

Higher slots would be available on the frontier, nautilus and regent...

-Angela

[DevaMajka]

Originally Posted by alegna

It's not listed on the above link... the regular safeguard seat is- different seat.

oops! Good catch

I was going to mention the Nautilus too. It's pretty inexpensive (less than the one in the link), harnesses to 65lbs and has pretty high top harness slots, converts to a highback booster, then to a backless booster.

Seems like a VERY cost effective car seat. That's what I'm getting ds for when we visit in the states.

[WhaleinGaloshes]

car seat.org has a very comprehensive review of the Safegurad Go (and many other seats.)

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=5970

The top slots for the harness are 17"; on the order of the Britax Marathon/Blvd but lower than the Regent and others. So the Go is not as high as some, but high enough to last past many lower-limit seats. Depending on your child, it could very likely fit him in the harness until he is ready for a booster.

The Go is very cool for travel, but probably not as comfortable as standard seat with a shell for everyday; I mean I don't sit in it so I couldn't say for sure but it has less 'seat' to it and it's tougher to nap in from the look of it. I do know someone in my town who uses one as her child's everyday seat and they like it.

As long as it fits well in your car, I think it's a safe seat with a decent capacity for longevity.

[alegna]

Originally Posted by easy_goer

car seat.org has a very comprehensive review of the Safegurad Go (and many other seats.)

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=5970

The top slots for the harness are 17"; on the order of the Britax Marathon/Blvd but lower than the Regent and others. So the Go is not as high as some, but high enough to last past many lower-limit seats. Depending on your child, it could very likely fit him in the harness until he is ready for a booster.

The Go is very cool for travel, but probably not as comfortable as standard seat with a shell for everyday; I mean I don't sit in it so I couldn't say for sure but it has less 'seat' to it and it's tougher to nap in from the look of it. I do know someone in my town who uses one as her child's everyday seat and they like it.

As long as it fits well in your car, I think it's a safe seat with a decent capacity for longevity.

The OP says the child is "getting out of" - if that means outgrowing the wizard, then they'll be too tall for this as the wizard is going to have about the same strap heights as the marathon/blvd seats.

-Angela

[WhaleinGaloshes]

I read it, but don't know the meaning behind "getting out of." Definitely kids are different. If OP has a three year old that's outgrown the Wizard (or Marathon/Blvd.) the Go isn't going to give him much more harness.

That would be a 3yo with a very long torso, but stranger things have happened.

[Novella]

We have a Safeguard Go and it has been in regular use since we bought it about 18 months ago.

Good:

• It is easy to install. Carseatsafety.org mentions that it can be difficult to install well with the seat belt. While LATCH is easiest, we don't have a problem using a seatbelt with it.
• Harnesses are good, non-twisty, and easy to adjust. We have not used it as a belt-positioning booster - only with the integrated harness.

Bad:

• The "side wings" are really cheaply/poorly designed. Our tall 5-year-old has her shoulders just below the top of the seat back of our van (once seated on the Safeguard Go booster). Her ear-top height requires that we use the van's headrest. The "side wings" are threaded through the harnesses. So this design makes it impossible to raise the "side wings" to the proper level if she gets even a smidgen taller than she now is. Even worse, these wings don't stay where you put them. They are constantly sliding down and pushing her shoulders forward.
• The flimsy plastic support for these "side wings" broke off the other day. Great! Our daughter was turned around in the van (we were parked). She was not being wild. She just leaned sideways against it a bit trying to reach something in the back and snapped the one side right off! ARGH!!

We bought this seat because we needed a very narrow seat in order to fit three-across in our van. I'm not sure if I would recommend this seat to others or not. There is disappointingly little on the market if you want a harnessed seat for an older child and don't have room for the monster-wide Britax model.

[alegna]

Originally Posted by Novella

There is disappointingly little on the market if you want a harnessed seat for an older child and don't have room for the monster-wide Britax model.

Luckily, just this year both the frontier and the nautilus have come out- providing more options of that type.

-Angela

[hjohnson]

If it is a narrow seat you are looking for, I would just look at the Radian 80. It harnesses up to 80lbs and it is a narrow seat.

We have the Nautilus and love it but it is not a narrow seat.

[alegna]

Originally Posted by hjohnson

If it is a narrow seat you are looking for, I would just look at the Radian 80. It harnesses up to 80lbs and it is a narrow seat.

We have the Nautilus and love it but it is not a narrow seat.

the radian 80 has the same strap heights as the radian 65, so it's really only worth it for a particularly heavy child. The average child won't need it. The 65 will work for the same length of time.

-Angela