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Fasteners on Britax seats - aaaarrrgggghhhh

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Pennies · 16/02/2008 14:28

These are a bloody nightmare! It takes me ages to get it to fit together and into the slots without coming apart again. DD will be learning some very Special Words soon if I don't get the hang of it.

Can you take them off and swap them with other ones - I've got a harness from a Mamas and Papas seat that it much better and I want to just swap the clasps rather than the straps. Anyone done this?

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preggersagain · 16/02/2008 14:30

no don't it would damage the integrity of the seat the fasteners provided have been designed for that seat (allbeit not very well!) all to do with weight loads and tensile strengths- too technical for me

CantSleepWontSleep · 16/02/2008 14:31

Which seat do you have? We have the duo plus and have no problem, so maybe yours is faulty?

lazarou · 16/02/2008 14:33

lol @ 'very special words'

RubberDuck · 16/02/2008 14:33

Oh god - I remember this, they're vile aren't they.

The baby rock-a-tot seat was fine, then we went to the next one up (forward facing one) and it was a NIGHTMARE.

Was very glad when both ds1 and ds2 were of an age where they could use high back boosters...

VanillaPumpkin · 16/02/2008 14:34

It will get easier. We had a Maxi Cosi which was great and hated our Britax when we changed (Duo plus isofix one.)
The easiest (and safest and proper) way to do it is to loosen the straps every time you take her out and then fasten it back up the next time with the straps loose and then tighten them to fit your dd. This helps. I can't do the buckle up if someone else has got dd out of the car and forgotten to loosen the straps right off.

CarGirl · 16/02/2008 14:36

I've never had any problems with any of my britax seats contact britax and see what they say? Have u got any friends to ask to do it and see if they find it trickt too?

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Pennies · 16/02/2008 14:36

CSWS - it's the Evolva 123 - the clasp has two long prongs which fit together but don't actually stay together, which means that fitting them both into the slot is nigh in impossibe, esp with the bulk of winter coats + wiggly child.

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VanillaPumpkin · 16/02/2008 14:37

Do you loosen the straps off?

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Pennies · 16/02/2008 15:00

They do but it's hard to get to the button to loosen them and there's also the guage on the front (plus very large shoulder padding which make it wll very cumbersome and inaccessible.

I need a seat that is one of those 9kg - 36 kg ones (DD is too small for a group 2/3 one but her Stage 1+ seat broke and I don't want to be buying another seat for her in a few months when she's big enough for a group 2/3 one IFSWIM.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 16/02/2008 15:03

I loosen the straps every time. Doesn't everyone? Hadn't occurred to me that people might not .

LIZS · 16/02/2008 15:27

I don't have a problem with ours. It is certainly no more of a faff than any other Britax seat I've tried, better if anything, and has improved with use anyway. Just push the button and release the straps slightly then tighten after you've fastened the clasp. Only seems necessary when dd has a coat on tbh.

VanillaPumpkin · 16/02/2008 15:31

I seem to be the only one that loosens/tightens the straps for every trip that I know of .
I do agree they are a faff though and other manufacturers are easier.

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