After 2 kids and 4 years of use
April 22, 2019
We started with the Nuna Pipa (which was fabulous) and moved our son once he outgrew it (at 11 months of age!) into the Rava and have subsequently purchased another for our daughter (now almost 2). The good: high-end performance and comfort, easy installation, lots of adjustability, beautiful. I also love that you can rear face for so long, though we had to turn our son around by age 3 because he hated being in it so much due to his legs being cramped. I'm not sure how those happy looking nordic 7 year olds do it in all of at the pictures, it definitely didn't go that way for us! The bad: it weighs a ton (seriously, you don't want to be lugging this thing through the airport plus a toddler and the half a house of things that are seemingly required to travel with said toddler) we ended up buying a separate car seat for traveling because this was so impractical; it is also a serious pain to take apart and clean. a. serious.pain. I just did it to ours yesterday because how do you get through a car ride without snacks and dear lord those snacks end up in every nook and cranny of our car and their carseats. You need a screwdriver and some serious contortionist skills to wrestle the cover back on, in all it was probably 1.5 hours of taking off, cleaning nooks and crannies and putting the cover back on. Both of these things would be forgivable except that when I took it apart to clean I discovered to my great dismay that the styrofoam protection for the head piece on my son's car seat has broken into 3 pieces, thereby rendering it completely useless for protection (it is my understanding that this type of styrofoam absorbs impact by breaking). The car seat has rarely been out of our car-see previous note on the travel car seat) and has never been in an accident so now I have $500 car seat that I've gotten less than 3 years of use out of that is not actually doing its job. The glue clearly came loose and the sytrofoam somehow got broken. I am hoping Nuna can send me a replacement part because we're not ready to move our 4 year old into a booster (we were planning to use this car seat as long as we possibly could) and this car seat is no longer providing the protection we need it to. Overall we love these car seats but only if we can count on the protection and service we paid a premium for.
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