Which Britax car seat for a 4 year old?

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Hi everyone, I’ve noticed that boots currently have £50 off most abritax car seats. At the moment my 4 year old is using a Joie seat (it’s what we could afford at the time) but I do know safety wise it isn’t the best.

He is 17kg and I want to get him a safer seat, I have heard Britax are the best in terms of safety, is this true? And if so, which would you recommend?

What Joie do you have? It's probably best to keep him in the seat that he's in if he's in a harness, especially if he's in a rear facing seat. You could invest in a Britax high backed booster for the next stage, and just keep it for when he's ready for it. But honestly the Joie booster seats rate almost as highly as the Britax ones do on crash testing, especially if it's just a high backed booster and not a multi stage seat.

Do you know how tall he is?

We have the Joie elevate 1/2/3, I always thought this seat wasn’t great in terms of safety, am I wrong?

I'm not sure of his exact height but I’d say roughly 105cm. Of the Britax seats on offer on boots, which would you recommend the best one? We have him forward facing if that helps.

Ah yes the Elevate is more of a basic one, though it makes an OK booster seat (I think it's the same as the Trillo? I am not 100% sure on that).

If you want to keep the harness, then you might look at Evolva 123 SL, but I'd try it out in a shop before you buy as he might already be too tall to use it. He is too tall for the harness in the Advansafix i-size.

Their Kidfix boosters are all great. The various price points refer to the different "generations" so the Kidfix SL is the oldest, Kidfix 2S is the next generation where they added side protection and the little hook between the legs for the lap belt, Kidfix 3S has a deeper seat, "XP pad" for the chest and better positioned hook, and Kidfix i-size is the newest one, it's slimmer and more lightweight. They all do well in crash testing and all seem to get favourable reviews. (Kidfix 2 and newer are an improvement over original Kidfix SL).

The Adventure and Discovery are newer versions of their most basic seats, I'd probably guess they are on about a par with the original Kidfix SL safety wise, but no independent test result yet.

You can keep using the Joie in harnessed mode if you want to for another 1kg, then it has to be converted to booster seat.