SO hard to tighten harness safely!
May 26, 2021
I love that this car seat lasts pretty much until your child grows out of it (10 years), and that the harness adjusts so easily with the sliding headrest (you don't have to take the car seat out to adjust the harness as your child gets older. It's also very easy to install. However, this car seat has been terrible for us. My daughter is 8 months and just moved out of her bucket seat. So we have this seat installed rear-facing and I just can't get the harness tight enough for it to be safe for my daughter. I have to get my husband to tighten the harness EVERYTIME I leave the house, and this has caused me anxiety when I leave because I'm afraid I will need to get her out and not be able to put her back in safely to drive home. The way the tightening strap is located just makes it so difficult to tighten in rear-facing position. Even my husband has trouble tightening it and he's a strong fella. You need an incredible amount of hand strength, I actually have burns and cuts on my hands from trying to put the tightening strap. I have contacted evenflo about this issue and they just gave me tips on how to tighten it, which did not help. Also the sensor safe feature, which I originally thought was very cool, is super annoying. Sometimes when my daughter's asleep in the car when we get home I sit in the car with her until she wakes so she gets a good nap. But the sensorsafe app won't stop alerting when I'm INSIDE the car with my daughter (I even adjusted it to less sensitive and this still happens). It also makes a VERY loud beeping sound every time you turn the car off which is a pain if you have a baby who's a light sleeper. Overall, I would not recommend this seat, especially if you don't have incredible hand strength. But if your using the seat forward-facing then it may easier to tighten..
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