Car seat help!

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  • robbinsroost
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:10 PM

• What seat do you currently have? How old is your child? Are you planning on ERF? 

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  • AmandaBug
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM

• yes we are ERF my son is only 5 months old, but no longer fits in his infant seat he is a BIG BOY almost 20lbs.  We were giving an Alpha Omega as a gift and it doesn't fit in any of our vehicles
  

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  • tabi_cat1023
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:49 PM

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  Quoting AmandaBug:
  
  

  yes we are ERF my son is only 5 months old, but no longer fits in his infant seat he is a BIG BOY almost 20lbs.  We were giving an Alpha Omega as a gift and it doesn't fit in any of our vehicles
  

  I have a personally HATE of that kind of seat anyways...not worth the money, sucks someone spend good moeny on it...sell it on craiglist to use some of the moeny to buy a different seat.

  Personally I would go with a Myride 65, a Truefit, or a Radian over a Britax right now....just my thing because I'm not a huge Britax fan, I do own a Decathlon I got from a friend, but for now its a spare seat.
  

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  • AmandaBug
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:55 PM

• yeah i pretty much wanted to kill the Alpha Omega seat wanted the throw it in the road and watch it be ran over i was so frustrated with it. 
  

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  • tabi_cat1023
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM

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  Quoting AmandaBug:
  
  

  yeah i pretty much wanted to kill the Alpha Omega seat wanted the throw it in the road and watch it be ran over i was so frustrated with it. 
  

  the AOE is hard to install RFing, but if you take it to a tech they may be able to get it to fit in your vehicle.  Often removing the base works.
  

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  • carseatmom
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM

• Honestly I'd probably get a True Fit with the anti-rebound bar (signiture series). I LOVE Britax seats, but for the money the True Fit may be easier to use.
  

  If I had to choose between the 2 I'd probably get the BV. I have a Decathlon, and I've liked it, but I never used it RFing (had another seat that expired and replaced it with the DC). The ones I have installed and adjusted RFing I found it harder to get the harness tight. Just the way the adjuster is. The adjuster is different on the BV. But if you think your son might be an escape artist I wouldn't go that route! Its pretty easy to loosen the harness if he gets ahold of the strap.
  

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  • ATG499
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM

• I have a Boulevard CS (Click 'n Safe, stay away from those, they're not worth the extra money) and it doesn't fit right in my car but personally I love it. If it fit and my son wasn't so wide I'd be using it. The side impact protection and the no rethread harness are some great features. The only con is that there are no extra buckle positions, so your little man might get "squished" with the buckle. 

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