Sns unity was THE worst baby thing I bought this time round! I would highly advise against it generally, but it has the worst safety rating in the latest round of testing, mine has actually stopped clicking in and out after only 9 1/2 months and it is sooo freaking heavy! Ds also gets incredibly hot in there. The one thing that really stood out for me was that you want to lift it out to do school pick ups, I used to do this for my nephew and had to park miles away and carry the capsule and it was absolute hell! After the second time I ended up just carrying ds it was so bad. Also, it was too heavy to carry with ds as a newborn and stitches, so was pretty useless then as well!
I would recommend hiring the standard capsule and getting a reversible car seat for once your new bub grows out of it, and I would put it next to your 8 yo so you can get them to help you click it in and out, for putting the dummy back in when driving and to remind you when you are so sleep deprived you forgot to put the strap on across the top
I bought a new one assuming we would be able to sell it once we had finished with it and it wouldn't really be all that expensive, but there is no way we could do that
Appletree, in which testing did the capsule score the worst safety rating? The ICEP testing I looked at scored it the highest safety rating for a baby under 9kgs. I bought one based on this! If other reputable testing has shown a poor result I would really like to look at it. You should contact S&S (Britax) if your seat is buggered, they will most likely replace it for you (even if you don't want to use it you will have a new one to sell!).
I don't use my capsule to carry bub around in, it really is VERY heavy and not ergonomic. I only use it because it was the safest car seat for a bub in the test results I read.
Thanks for all the replies.. I am thinking I will just use the convertable seat now..
Baby Buntings is who has the unity on sale online, we only have 2 stores up here that have the unity, 1 doesn't keep them in stock & would need to order it in & the other I haven't bothered going over to yet as I know I can get it for a better price online.
I don't want to put the baby in the back row, its too far away for my comfort & my idea was having the 8yr old as my extra hands while driving.
*Belle* I ended up getting a toyota Hiace supercustom which is am import.
Might go fiddle now with the seats & see how it goes.
I have my three 5 point harnesses along the middle seats (two forward facing on either sit and rear facing in the middle) and my 8 and 10 year olds sit in the back.
It might be different because it is not a van and it has side doors.
NIckle here is the link to the 2010 CREP testing which is generally accepted to be the national standard for car seat ratings....the Unity has dropped to one star, which is the lowest rating possible.
And appletree deifintely contact Britax, they have excellent customer service and I would imagine replace your faulty car seat, giving you a nice new one to pop on ebay!!!!
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