Had my eye on this car seat for a while after reading the great reviews. Was able to purchase directly from Safety 1st at a competitive price (actually a bit cheaper than others). Received the order quicker than expected. Overall great experience. #sweepstakes

We have been using this seat since my daughter was 7 months old. She is currently 16 months, 32 inches, and 27 pounds, happily rear facing until we reach the limits! Using recline 3 was a bit crowded but now that we are using recline 2 my 6' husband has plenty of room to drive our 2002 Kia Spectra comfortably. The only issue I have come across is when I used this seat for a friend's daughter who is in a booster. The top tether is a few inches from reaching the top tether anchor. I blame my vehicle for this, considering this is not the first seat (different brand) that the tether strap would not reach the anchor. Cleaning is super easy and it's a bonus that this seat allows SOME time in the dryer, compared to ones that only allow drip drying. As long as you read the manual front to back you shouldn't have any issues. If so, there are plenty of forums and websites to assist you!

I have had quite a few car seats from various brands. It was so easy to install this car seat. We have to use the seat belt path and for some seats its very difficult. This one was fairly easy, and clearly marked. The slot was a little small, my husband has big hands and he had a little difficulty but was able to do it on his own. I love that it grows from infancy through childhood. It is not too heavy (another issue I have had before) and fits in 1 seat, not taking up the seat next to it. It also a has cup holder options for my kids water bottle. My little was comfortable and it seems very stable and safe. Thanks to the Stellar Product Testing Panel for providing me with this convertible car seat.

As a mom of a one year old, three year old, and four year old (almost five) we have been thru many car seats! I truly enjoy the ease of this specific car seat, as well as another Safety 1st All-In-One we own. The design of this car seat is GENIUS. I like that the headrest and harness adjustment is an easy one motion movement. (I included a photo of this particular feature) I absolutely detest having to pull out the straps, move every thing around, and adjust again when my littles hit a growth spurt. This feature is fantastic and a must have. Some other nice bonuses; my four year old was very comfortable in it, we enjoy the TWO cup holders, it's easy for me to install, and the infant pillows are easy to remove and put back. It is also surprisingly light weight! I gave it 5 stars because it does, and is, exactly what it advertises. No muss, no fuss, "grow and go". Thanks to the Stellar Product Panel for providing me with this convertible car seat!

We have 2 cars but only had 1 car seat. I did a lot of investigating and chose maxi cosi. I was excited to receive this and see that it is nearly the same. It had the same great safety features and my toddler was comfortable in it. She liked the head rest better in the safety first than the dorel. They are basically the same car seat and I've yet to see why i spent more on the Maxi Cosi. I'd definitely recommend safety first in the future.

This car seat is great. My daughter is extremely comfortable in it. I love the harness clips that hold the straps back while putting her in the seat. The headrest is very easy to adjust. In rear facing mode it takes up less space than other car seats which allows more leg room for the person sitting in the front seat. This is especially helpful since we have it installed in a pickup truck. Installation was easy (using the seatbelt or the latch) but the belt path for the seatbelt installation had some sharp plastic pieces that my husband scraped his hand on. That is the only con I could come up with. I would definitely recommend this car seat.

I was given this convertible car seat to try as part of the Stellar Product Testing Panel. I have tried two other brands of convertible car seat, one high end and heavy, and one basic economy seat. This is in the same price range as my economy seat but seems way nicer! Safety 1st did a nice job of throwing in the frills in all the right places. This seat is easy to install with the LATCH system. It's your basic LATCH clips, but with the added luxury of a great adjuster that makes it easy to get a tight install. If you don't have LATCH in your car, get a different seat that has a lock-off for the belt. I think it has to do with the design of the belt path, but I could push the seat over toward the center, even with a crazy tight seatbelt install. The seat is easy to adjust the height, and it's got great removable pads if you're starting off with and infant on board. The padding itself seems pretty plush and luxurious, and I LOVE that it's machine washable! The seat fits great in all three of our vehicles. The photo is in the back seat of our smallest car, and there's plenty of room for the passenger in front without the seat back touching the car seat (I'm 5'7" and hubby is 5'10"). The main reason I'm only giving this 4 stars is the bad seatbelt install path. In general, I prefer a seat that can do 50lbs rear-facing, but it's a moot point with this seat since most LATCH systems aren't rated for more than 40lbs (check your vehicle manual! Even if your car seat's LATCH is rated higher, you have to go with the LOWER number between the two!). So even if this seat was rated to 50lbs rear-facing, I'd have to turn my kids around after they outgrew the LATCH weight limit because the seatbelt install is not secure enough. All in all, a great seat for my family as a back-up in hubby's car, and a great pick if you don't want to break the bank but still want some nicer frills and features.

I'm disappointed to say I have had this car seat for 3 years since my son came home from the hospital. Since it's been front facing it constantly tips over only when I make right turns, to the point where my passenger seat stays pushed all the way back to stop this from happening. I'm very diligent when installing and setting up my car seat and no matter how much pressure I apply I cannot get it to sit right so it won't tip over, even in other vehicles! I'm only making this review because I'm finally searching for a new car seat and I want to warn other parents, I wish I had returned it when we discovered this problem.

My son has this car seat in red Mickey Mouse of course and I absolutely love it and he does as well. It actually is the second car seat that we have bought the first one got damaged so we went back and bought another one and the damage was something that's on us not them and now we are pregnant and expecting a girl and we are most definitely buying the pink one. I would recommend this for any child is good for brand new babies up to coddlers, if you don't got it, go get it cheap price, high quality, comfy, durable car seat and on top of everything is very easy to clean all the material comes right off, wash it put it back together, very easily assembled and take apart. Honestly, I could go on and on about this car seat so in my opinion, five stars go get it.

This car seat saved my sons life. I was recently in a car wreck a couple days before thanksgiving. My fiancé was going straight through a yellow light when someone was speeding through the light while turning left. We were hit and our car ended up on the sidewalk near a fence. All our air bags went off, my fiancé had a sprained arm and I had broken glasses, sprained shoulder and my neck was cut from the seat belt. We also were bruised everywhere on our body My son was untouched! He didn't have a single scratch or bruise on him! I recommend everyone this car seat now!!