Recaro Vivo High Back Booster, Carbon
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: RECAROBrand: Recaro
Release Date: 2011-11-14
Model: 351.00.ME19
Color: Carbon
Product features:
- 5 Points of Protection
- Recaro's Side Impact Protection (SIP) System with its extra large wings
- Designed and engineered to provide optimum safety and protection in the event of an accident
- Accommodates children from 30 pounds to 100 pounds
- Features an innovative and easy to clean microfiber cover
- Recaro Vivo Booster Car Seat - Closeout
- Recaro Vivo High Back Booster Car Seat, Crimson Microfiber with Cool Mesh
Description of Recaro Vivo High Back Booster, Carbon
Each Recaro child restraint system is designed and engineered to provide optimum safety and protection in the event of a life threatening accident. The Recaro Side Impact Protection system with its extra large side wings, correctly shaped headrest and comfortable padding provides an additional peace-of-mind when your child may need it most.Baby Products Reviews of Recaro Vivo High Back Booster, Carbon
Customer Review: Excellent booster seat for smaller child
Summary: 5 Stars
The main advantage of this booster over its main competitor, the Britax Parkway Slide Guard Booster Seat, Onyx, is that this seat has a minimum child weight of 30 pounds instead of the 40 pound minimum of the Parkway. That allowed us to start using this booster seat for our older child earlier, and to use the Britax Diplomat it replaced for our younger child. The maximum weight and height for this seat of 100 pounds and 59 inches will get our daughter to the point where she is no longer required to have a booster seat in any state, so it's the last car seat we'll have to buy for her.
This seat is of similar high quality to the Britax seats and seems quite comfortable. It's easy to adjust the head rest height and seat back tilt. The seat belt guides are not too difficult to use and keep the lap and shoulder belts in proper position on the child. The overall dimensions are compact and the booster seat should fit in any adult seating position. As a booster seat, it's much lighter than a convertible car seat, so it's easy to move between vehicles. Really there's nothing bad to say about this seat!
This product listing is for the carbon color scheme, but you can get the midnight desert and crimson color schemes under Recaro Vivo High Back Booster Car Seat, Crimson/Midnight Desert.
The remainder of this post has to do with use of this seat in a front seating position if there are no rear seat positions available, so it may not apply to you. If you feel the need to castigate me for putting my child in the front seat of a car with no rear seats, please first read the Pulitzer prize winning Washington Post article on "Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car".
We bought this seat for installation in the passenger side of my S2000, which is a two seat car with no rear seats. The instructions for the seat have two warnings relative to front seat locations. The first says that you should switch off any passenger air bag if you use the booster in the front seat. The second says not to use the car seat in a position with an active air bag "unless recommended by the vehicle manufacturer", which seems like an exception to the first warning.
If your front seat has a switch to turn off the air bag, then you're golden. If not, you'll need to get an NHTSA certification to have a switch installed by filling out a form certifying that you'll be transporting a child in the front seat of a car with no rear seats or where the rear seats are already occupied by other children, available on the NHTSA safercar web site. Before sending in the form, you're supposed to read the information in their brochure providing information you should take into account before installing a switch.
What you'll find out from the brochure is that the number of children who have been killed by air bags is very small. In fact, it's less than the number of children who have been killed by being forgotten because they were in a back seat, as documented in the Washington Post article mentioned above. And even then, most of the children killed by air bags were completely unrestrained or in a backward facing car seat, which unlike a forward facing seat puts the baby's head dangerously close to the air bag. A few were in lap and shoulder belts that didn't fit properly. None appear to have been in booster seats. Children properly restrained in forward facing booster seats may actually be safer with an active air bag, just as adults are.
At any rate, I've sent in the NHTSA certification, and I'm relying on Honda's recommendations regarding the air bag switch. However, the bottom line is that if your car has no back seat or the back seat is full of other children, you needn't feel guilty about putting your child in the front seat. Just make sure the child is in a forward facing car seat or booster seat - like this one.
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