Safety 1st Comfort Ride

If you have a child who is currently forward-facing in a convertible seat and have a younger child who needs a convertible seat, it usually makes the most sense to pass down the convertible car seat to the younger child and purchase the older child a forward-facing-only seat. This seat can be good for that situation since it still has a harness mode.

Maybe the rear-facing convertible seat you have been using is expired, has been in a crash, or you just hate it, and you want to buy a new seat to use forward-facing. If you fall into one of those categories, this may be the seat for you! It doesn’t make sense to buy another convertible seat that has a rear-facing mode because you won’t be using that anymore. This seat will start as a forward-facing harness and then later turn into a high back and then a backless booster.

The highest harness height is only 16.5″ tall, while many other seats in this category have harness heights that are above 18″. The harness height is critical because when forward-facing, the straps have to be even with or just above the shoulder. Long-torsoed kids will outgrow this seat fast, but if you have a child who is below the 50th percentile in height, this will likely be adequate to get them to a safe booster age. The highest belt guide position (that will be used in high back booster mode to route the vehicle’s shoulder belt through) on this seat is only 18.5″, so it will last about 2 years longer than the harness mode.

If you are a parent who primarily uses rideshare services and/or taxis to get around but you don’t have the budget for a Wayb Pico, this may be the seat for you! It weighs 12.1 pounds, so it’s lighter than many other seats out on the market today. You can attach it to a travel cart like this one in order to easily transport it around the city while you go about your day.

Since this seat is only 17.75″ wide, it may work as one of the seats in a 3 across configuration in some vehicles. We have some other more narrow options here. 

The highest harness height is only 16.5″ tall, so if you have a child with a long torso, this is probably not the best seat for you. This is because you need the harness to be coming from at or below their shoulders. Many other seats in this category have harness heights that are above 18″. The highest belt guide position on this seat is only 18.5″, so it’s not long-lasting in the high back booster mode, either.

While we had no issues with child fit for the harness and high back booster modes, other than not being as long-lasting as other seats on the market, we did not find that the backless booster mode gave an acceptable belt fit on either of the kids that we tried.

The oldest child is 8.5 years old, 51″ and 45 pounds. As you can see in the picture on the left, the lap belt is far from where it should be (across the top of the thighs), and the shoulder belt is not in a good position either. The backless booster mode requires that you route the shoulder portion of the seat belt over the booster’s armrest, and there is no shoulder belt adjuster as well, so there is no way to fix any part of this seat belt in order to make the seat belt fit properly on this child. The 2nd child pictured is 6 years old, 45″, and 54 pounds. This child does not get a proper fit as well.

The shoulder belt gets routed over the armrest instead of under it when you are using the seat in the backless mode. The high-back booster mode has the typical under-the-armrest routing.

Make sure to put all of the parts into a large bag and label it so that you can reassemble it in the future!

For the booster modes, you will need to teach the child to buckle in the seat when they are being dropped off to school or activities so that the booster will not be a projectile in a crash.