Weight limit difference US and UK

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I've just bought a baby jogger city mini for my 2yr old who's almost 16kg, because I saw online that the upper limit was 50lb/ 22kg. But it only says this on the US version of baby jogger's website not the UK version which says 15kg. Is there a difference between models or is there some regulatory reason in the UK as most models seem to have an upper limit of 15kg.

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I would like to know for the Uppababy Vista 2015, exactly the same question

Thanks

I've wondered the same (we have the bjcmgt) and I have come to the conclusion in my head that it's because in the UK we just automatically test them to 15kg and therefore there's no option to advertise it otherwise, it's the same buggy and I can go by the US weight limit. However, I have no basis for this other than it's what I have decided

You can test above 15kg in the UK but it costs a lot more, that's why most don't do it afaik. Also testing standards are different, so what might pass a us test for say 22kg in the US might not pass the more equivalent UK test. The UK is definitely stricter on tipping, that's why some pushchairs have car seat adaptors in the us that aren't sold here. I think there are other differences in testing but I don't know specifically what they are.

That said in a basic weight bearing sense I tend to go with the max US tested weight too.

There is no difference just tested differently.

Fantastic- thank you. I thought it must be something like that as I couldn't imagine a company would want to spend thousands modifying models for different markets

They aren't all identical afaik, some are modified for different markets.

ihateparties, are they really modified?

Specifically the Uppababy vista 2015

How irritating!!

The vista I don't know, might be able to find out. There are almost always fabric differences, fire retardancy treatment mainly, UK requirements seem to be more stringent. An example I know of is Baby jogger say the versa is different in the UK to the places where they sell one frame and either normal or gt wheel kits But I'm not totally convinced that's true. The UK versa has a regular frame and a gt frame and they are definitely different, the regular one has suspension.

UK testing is harder to pass than US testing I think, so some things do need modifying to pass here. I guess it would only be done where required due to the expense, so it's hard to know which models have been modified for the UK market. Even with all that in mind I don't know of anything that is so different I would totally disregard us weight limits. Iirc the 15kg testing for the UK involves some sort of test for 1.5x that weight.

Thanks ihateparties, very interesting.

How would you find out?

I'll see if i can find out more.

Here is an example that uk/us models aren't automatically the same.

Parties pretty much said it. UK pushchairs only need to pass at 15kgs in order to go on sale. It costs thousands to get to that point, so why bother testing further (which costs more). I believe that as Parties says, they test anyway to 1 and a half times this here, however your warranty wouldn't cover you beyond what is on the label. I believe the US test more up to the maximum weight.