Recommend your lightweight 5 point harness

[persa]

As a spare seat for a big preschooler, about 44 inches and probably 44 lbs. She'll be 4 in October but I'm not ready to put her in a booster seat yet.

I need something easy to install and lightweight for sitters/relatives. Something easy to swap around cars.

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We ended up getting the Evenflo one for IL's car. DS is bigger also at 3.5, so we needed something that would harness longer.

www.diapers.com/p/evenflo-booster-car-seat-wesley-1035688

[af1212]

We have an evenflo maestro for our travel seat. It's light and easy to carry through an airport, and only cost about $75. My tall almost 5 year old still has LOTS of room before she gets close to the top.

It is only a FF seat though so you have to be okay with that.

[persa]

Thanks y'all

Yes I'd like her to be older before I have her in a belted booster since I don't think she'll sit in a booster properly at 4, even though I could legally get away with it. She's forward facing now so I don't have issue with that. She'll probably be in the 3rd row of the soon to be purchased Odyssey so I also won't be able to reach back and smack her when she's not sitting in the chair right (kidding about the smacking!)

I'll look at the sureride and the defender and the maestro 

Does anyone have the evenflo securekid? www.amazon.com/Evenflo-SecureKid-Booster-Seat-Kohl/dp/B00ISS2IT2#

My mom and H both have Britax Blvd's in their car and she still fits in it, though she looks a little funny in it with her long legs dangling down. I have a Diono Radian in my car (ford Escape) now and I'll probably keep that one in the minivan although i really dislike that seat. 

@cookiemonster03, most likely this will be just for sitters or friends/relatives who will be carting her around without the twins but I guess you never know if someone will have all 3 in the car. 

[persa]

Oct 1, 2014 11:24:40 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

Oct 1, 2014 11:08:49 GMT -5 persa said:

Does anyone have the evenflo securekid? www.amazon.com/Evenflo-SecureKid-Booster-Seat-Kohl/dp/B00ISS2IT2#

csftl.org/evenflo-securekid-review/
carseatblog.com/16523/evenflo-secure-kid-review-the-new-lightweight-champion-of-combination-seats/

The shoulder slots are a little lower than the Sureride, but it's a good seat.  The highback booster will work fine and I think last longer than the Maestro.  The LATCH connectors are nicer than the Sureride (although she probably won't be able to use LATCH much longer in harness mode - but I think you can use LATCH in booster mode so you don't have to keep it buckled when unoccupied).  Try them out in the store if you can - the cost is about equal between the Securekid and a Sureride+highback booster.

I think the SureRide is going to feel too "baby-ish" to her since she already complains about the Boulevard on occasion.

It looks like she can use the Securekid in harnessed mode for longer, weight-wise, up to 65 lbs, but it has the same height restriction for harnessed mode as the Maestro, 50 inches. 

Even at her current growth trajectory, she'll be almost 6 when she hits that height for either and maybe somewhere sooner will hit the weight restriction of the Maestro so I guess it's a matter of if I want to eek out a few more months with the SecureKid. Ugh, decisions!

[persa]

@fivedogs and @cookiemonster03, hmm, maybe the defender would be a better option as you guys mentioned, spec-wise. I'd never heard of it before. It is heavier than the Evenflo's though. Man, and I wouldn't even have thought about the whole "buckle the booster when unoccupied" thing @fivedogs mentioned above. I didn't even know what you meant by that at first and it was in the CSFTL review of the Harmony where they mentioned that you want to buckle it in booster mode to prevent it becoming a projectile that I was like "Ooooh..."

WITH HARNESS:
Weight: 22 - 65 lbs (10 - 29.5 kg)
Height: 27 - 57 in (68.6 - 144.8 cm)
WITHOUT HARNESS:
Weight: 30 - 110 lbs (13.6 - 50 kg)
Height: 34 - 57 in (86.4 - 144.8 cm)

[persa]

@fivedogs, you have a little peanut! Mine is a hoss, built like her mama

[lilac05]

I'm so glad you posted this! We're going on vacation on Monday & I bought a Cosco booster with harness for DS1 (almost exactly your DD's size). I thought he could use the harness, but it looks like it's only up to 40lbs.

I hope someone has one of the other recommended ones in stock or I'll have to get one from the rental place...and I'm assuming I'd have the same issues there.

[lilac05]

Oct 4, 2014 8:32:12 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

Oct 3, 2014 23:20:11 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

The Cosco one also is an unsafe booster, so it is probably a good thing that you can't use this one.  Target almost always has the Maestro and Sureride in stock (in the neutral color) - I would go pick one of those up.  The rental place will more than likely have the Cosco seat or try to give you a booster.  

Thanks for the info!  We're heading to Target today. 

Where do you see that Cosco boosters are unsafe?  I thought they all had to pass the same safety standards, but some seats just had more than others.  Obviously it's unsafe for him, as he's too heavy for the harness and too young for the seatbelt.  Is it unsafe in general, or  did you mean just for him at this point?