Great car seat, love the UPPAbaby ecosystem, minor caveats
November 24, 2016
This car seat is great. It specifically thrives in two places: base installation and newborn head and body support. The base is extremely easy to install because it requires little to no strength to install it. I've pulled muscles on other car seat bases trying to pull those straps to get it tight. With this, all you do is plug it in and lean on the base and it automatically tightens it for you. I did find that the leveling in my BMW was a bit tricky, I couldn't quite get it level no matter what adjustment I used and I found that sometimes the front of the base would be forced upward instead of laying flat after tightening. But after a bit of trial and error I was able to get it to a good position.The newborn insert is amazing, really provides the support I was missing on the Britax car seats, especially since it is fully adjustable vertically.As far as the car seat installed on the base, I found that the front of the car seat does lift up slightly (due to the fact that the connection is made in the back of the base). I am nearly positive that is how it was designed and is perfectly safe, but I would have preferred it be unioned a bit more with the base. However, as soon as the baby is in the seat, it's a non-issue. Overall it is a great, beautiful car seat. Like I said I love the UPPAbaby ecosystem, their products are just great and this one is no exception.