I need to purchase a couple of 3-12 year old child seats and have had a look at the Concord lift-evo's.
Does anyone have any experience of these - with such a precious cargo to carry - I just wanted to ask the experts that are the HJ backroomers.
Your advice on these or any other seats would be welcome.
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We used Concord seats (fixmax I think it may have been) and were very pleased with them. No experience of the lift-evo. If you dare to enter the murky world of parenting websites, you may find more informed opinions there.
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Have you checked to see if that particular seat is compatible with your car? Our local council have a safety team where you can turn up and have several of the latest models of car seats tried out in your vehicle to see which is the most compatible and the best fit. You can't buy from them - they just have various samples that you can try out for compatibility. My sister went along recently to have her car seat changed from a baby to a toddler seat. The model she had her heart set on was totally incompatible with her car and if she had have fitted it, and God forbid the worse happened, the results would have been much worse than in a well-fitting car seat. Once they tell you which models fit your car safely, you can then go on the net and shop around for the best price, which is what I did for her recently and saved a small fortune compared with some of the well-known high street stores.
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Excellent advice markengland - many thanks for this.
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On kiddie seats in general:
1) ensure that the fabic covering is eaily get-on-and-offable. This ensures that when the seat gets dirtied or spilt on (and it will, with the most noxious substances!) that you don't have to faff about. Also ensure that the cover is easily washable, and dryable.
2) Endure that you can remove the entire seat easily, or accees the 'normal' seat for cleaning underneath it (see 1 above). There is nothing worse than them lingering smells...
3) If the seat is going to be removed on a regular basis, get some thick duct tape or similar, and mask off the relevant doorframe, to avoid scrapes and chips from metal fittings.
4) When leaving the car in warm weather, make sure the buckles, fittings etc are put back into the seat, and drape a towel or similar over the seat, to ensure they don't get heated red hot by the sun.
5) An occasional good clean followed by a good squirt of WD40 or similar into the working parts of the buckle is a good idea - see point (1).
Junior's seat buckle became clogged with a combination of orange squash and various lint, crumbs and unmentionables, and was very difficult to close/unlock. Would have been a danger to have to do it quickly in an emergency.
Hopr this helps.
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I have one of the original concord lifts. Good car seats as its one of the few that has a backrest on a booster. Also had good crash test results.
Only trouble I have with mine is it moving around when a child is not in it. In the end I resorted to strapping it to the seat with luggage straps through the holes provided.
HTH
Joe
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