Safety 1st onBoard 35 Infant Car Seat, ProtonDescription
Safety 1st onBoard 35 Infant Car SeatStart your little one off on the right road with the Safety 1st onBoard 35 Infant Car Seat. Featuring 17% more leg room than most infant car seats and a harness specially designed to fit preemies, the onBoard 35 Infant Car Seat easily accommodates the growing baby in a rear-facing position from 5 to 35 pounds. Our Carry CurveTM handle makes for comfortable transport between the car and wherever you need to go!Safety 1st has been by your side for 25 years provi
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- Is this the safest infant seat on the market? Who knows, but it may well be. Perhaps the
"air-protect" is a gimmick, but it makes seems like a considerable advance in safety. Airbags in cars are particularly effective, and the use of passive airbags for head protection in a carseat sounds great to me.
What isn't a gimmick is that this car seat fits up to 35 lbs - which is more than any other infant seat. Plus, it isn't any heavier than a normal infant seat - the carrier weighs just 8 or 9 lbs.
The materials feel top notch, and look snazzy... Well, it looks about as cool as a carseat can look, which isn't saying much. The seat is very deep, which means true side-impact protection (airbags nonwithstanding) and more leg room for the little ones. The harness is very adjustable, and the single pull tensioner makes securing the child very easy. (The straps can be nice and loose to put the kid in, and with one tug on the tensioner, all the straps tighten right up.)
The base has an adjustable wedge so you can find the correct installation angle (supposedly) without using any towels or pool toys as shims. It works really easily, and can raise the seat to a fairly good angle to make up for deep or soft seats. Also - the infant insert isn't just a bit of padding - it has several parts and can be adjusted in many ways, which is probably why this seat can fit all the way down to a child of 4 lbs! Very well thought out.
Since some of our friends have complained of outgrowing even the (supposed) 30 lb weight-limit seats within 4-5 months, we're hoping to get much longer out of this seat. (It appears that most manufacturers raise the weight limits of their seats arbitrarily... Many children simply don't fit in the seats well before they reach the weight limit.) We were planning to get a Maxi-Cosi Mico, but heard countless stories of babies outgrowing it at 16-18 lbs! Because this Safety 1st Onboard Air 35 seat was designed significantly deeper and larger, it should last many months longer.
The canopy is plenty large enough and effective, although it isn't the smoothest to use. It's not bad, but as with many car seats we're looked at, the mechanism just isn't all that great. It is fantastic that you can leave the handle up when in the car if you want (many car seats require you to lower it) and the seat snaps into the base clearly and effortlessly every time.
For now I'm happy to give it five stars, even if there isn't much independent data supporting the air-protect feature. It's a good carseat anyway, and very competitive on features and price to anything else out there.
My only lingering concern is what stroller to dock it to. The Safety 1st Stroller that it is intended to dock with (the Aerolite LX) looks reasonable, but there are no reviews for it anywhere, nor can I find any store that sells it to have a look.
I'll post an update once the carseat gets some good use or we find another stroller that it works with.
Brand: Safety 1st
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