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The Right Fit Changeable Car Seat has been given a four-star Ease of Use rating by the Inhabitant Highway Traffic Safety Handing out (NHTSA). Out of 22 changeable car seats tested, the Right Fit was the only one to earn a four-star rating in both the rear- and front-facing positions. The Right Fit Changeable Car Seat can be used from birth right on through to when your child is 65 lbs. The Right Fit adapts better and simpler to more cars than any other changeable car seat, and offers the comfort and safety features you have come to expect from Compass car seats, Compass booster seats and The First Years travel gear harvest. It offers deep side wings that have been side-impact tested, a full EPP foam liner that absorbs energy, and built-in lock offs to provide a secure installation lacking the use of confusing locking clips. Features: - Removable padding--better installation for the back seat
- Harnesses that go to 65lbs., as preferred by safety advocates
- Larger inside dimensions to better fit your child as they grow
- The lower center of gravity allows for a deeper, taller and wider seats area lacking making the seat larger on the further than
- "Simple Off" pad makes it simple to wash and keep clean
- No-rethread harness: adjust the harness height lacking having to uninstall harness straps
- Deep side wings
- Side-impact tested
- EPS foam liner
- Built in lock-offs
- Multiple position buckle
- Super-comfortable pad
- For children 5 to 65 lbs. and up to 50 inches tall
Rear Facing Use Requirements lacking Padding: - This child restriction lacking the padding, in a rear facing position is, designed for use by children whose: Weight is between 5-22 lbs and head is 1 inch below the top of the seat.
- Child MUST meet BOTH of these requirements to use this Changeable Seat lacking the padding
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 Better than a BRITAX!! Like THE SEAT & THE PRICE!! |
| Review Date: September 19, 2008 |
| Assessor: Laura Powell, NC |
The First Years Right Fit Changeable carseat is the BEST Carseat I have ever seen! If I had seen it when my 3 1/2 year ancient was on the rise out of her infant Delivery service seat, I would have refused my FREE Britax Roundabouts and paid for two Right Fits to exchange them. I'm so amazed that the seat can go from a tiny infant to a 65 lb. & 50 inch tall child!
I did prefer the infant carseats that detach from a base and have a comfortable carrying handle until my child was too heavy to carry. It's nice to have a safe clean portable "bed" for the very tiny ones, but after that, the Right Fit is the safest and best option!
The seat has all the latest safety features plus a plush comfortable cover and padding. I like that the seat has side impact protection and that the company tests their harvest. My child is tall and very close to 40 inches & 40 lbs. and she likes the seat. We also tried a friends 8 year ancient in the seat and she works well too! Like the simple adjustable harness! No more removing the seat and rethreading! YIPEE! I also like that the seat reclines a small - fantastic for naps. One of best features is the built-in seatbelt locking clip. I like that it's under the seat and will work with any lap & shoulder combo seatbelt. It was simple to get to thanks to the smart cover design!
I have seen some negative comments about there not being enough crotch space. If you leave the infant padding in the seat and try to place a kid in the seat, yes, it's tight. The directions weren't very clear about removing it. If you remove the extra pad for a larger child, the space is fantastic, even for an 8 year ancient.
It does take a few minutes to bed in the seat and it's heavy, but we have a The First Years Compass Premier Folding Adjustable Booster - Appeasing Compass B510 booster seat as a second seat for moving from one vehicle to a further for small trips. If we had had this seat as an option before, we would have bought one for each vehicle. Divide the cost by 7 or 8 and compare it to some of your other yearly expenses!
We also like the way that the straps can be pulled around the "wings" of the seat when unbuckling the child. They'll stay there nicely until it's time to get back in. No sticky velcro to rip your delicate tutus! The straps cushions are a nice feature, but would also like a crotch buckle pad.
Don't like: The instructions could be better. Do not like the black area under the infant pad and the buckles. Prefer all a lighter color, so it doesn't get so hot. We cover our seats with white towels to help. Light shades of tan or gray would be nice.
Like: Comfortable, safe, side-impact tested, soft fabric cover, plush padding. 5 point harness to 50 inches or 65 lbs. Installs tight and works well in small vehicles. Simple to make to order the fit lacking removing and rethreading the harness, multiple crotch strap positions. Built-in locking clip.
Be sure to check out the demo at www.learningcurve.com
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I like this seat!
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| Review Date: May 5, 2008 |
| Assessor: momof2, Iowa |
The First Years/Learning Curve Truefit is truly an awe-inspiring seat! The harness height goes from 10"-18" (with 4 total slots) and adjusts easily lacking removing the seat. It rear faces from 5-35lbs, and forward faces to 65lbs. It has lockoffs, so it installs easily with a seatbelt or the lower anchors-the locks offs are simple to use.
The seat has a removeable padding for infants who are less than 22 lbs (and whose head is 1" from the top of the shell). This makes the seat simpler to fit rear-facing. Once the child reaches 22+lbs, the padding needs to be place on (and the child should be kept rear-facing until s/he reaches 35lbs or is within 1" of the top of the shell). Rear-facing is 4x safer than forward facing. My 2 year ancient son is still rear-facing and will be until he is either too heavy or too tall.
It's a comfortable seat with lots of EPP foam and padding. The Misty Morning pattern is very soft and cozy. My daughter, at 44", 42lbs, and a 16" torso, still fits, height wise, in this seat. She really liked it.
I have (or have had) lots of carseats. Among them, the Evenflo Triumph Advance, the Radian65, Evenflo Triumph V, Britax Regent, and Fisher Price Safe Voyage Deluxe (Britax Lengthy clone). The Truefit is easily one of my favorites.
The best carseat is one that fits your child, fits your budget, fits your vehicle, and will be installed accurately EVERY SINGLE TIME! Make sure to read the manual for any seat bought and know how to bed in it accurately. And go to a seat check/call a tech if you have any questions.
My for children safety, in the car, is of prime importance to me. I can keep them safer by keeping them harnessed, in the safest seat/s I can afford, for as long as possible. |
Fantastic seat once you figure out how to bed in it...
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| Review Date: January 17, 2009 |
| Assessor: Nathan C, Los Angeles, CA |
First let me say that this is a fantastic seat. It's padded, comes with several inserts to help different size babies. The optional padding is nice. I have now installed two of these seats, one into a new Volkswagen Jetta, and one into the previous model Jetta (which has a slightly less vital backseat). There are a few inconveniences, but once you figure it out, the seat does just so what it's held to.
The largest problem, and this took me over an hour to figure out, is that the seat comes ready for a forward facing installation. I installed both of my seats rear-facing, and I was going NUTS figuring out how to get the latch belt/system to look like it did in the pictures. If only they would have mentioned in the directions that of the box, the latch belt comes set in the forward facing position, it would have saved me a lot of time. You really have to reposition the belt to make it look like the poorly worded pictures. Once I figured that out, installing seat two took less than 20 minutes. Now that I know all this it makes sense. The latches themselves are made to go on in a particular way, and by default in rear-facing they were backwards. That makes sense now since it came ready for a forward-facing bed in.
A further problem I faced was achieving the proper hill. Coming from a chicco infant base that had simple to read bubble levels, the right fit simply has a skinny red sign on the side that is held to be analogous to the floor. I'll tell you right now, in the backseats of both jettas, getting the line analogous isn't feasible. First of all, I had to wedge something bottom to give it more hill (like a pool noodle). The problem with this is that my son is over 22 lbs, so I have to have the padding installed. At this hill, I would have to place it behind the passenger seat, and go that front seat up so far that no one could sit in it. If you're looking to get this seat for a small child that has very small neck control, you might look somewhere else. My son is over 10 months ancient and about 25 lbs, and installing the carseat with no type of wedge probably puts the red line about 15-20 degrees higher than analogous. For him it's fine, but for younger babies be strict. I know this is a problem in nearly all changeable car seats and small backseats, but you can never have enough info on how these things will probably fit in your car. My last complaint about the hill is that one of my red stickers is by now losing ground off and I had to place tape over it. I wants a bubble level!
My last comment is about the 5-point latch. Overall it's very simple to use. I had tribulations with it getting twisted the first couple times I used it, but now that I know what I'm doing I haven't had any tribulations. My other initial problem was that the strap you pull to cinch it all down onto the baby was never clarified. In my ancient chicco you simply pulled on it, and the harder you pulled the more it cinched. The right fit doesn't work that way. You really have to pull, relief, pull, relief, and it sort of works like a "pump" system. Everytime you pull, it will only cinch a small, and to get it to cinch more, you have to relief slightly and tug again. Once you figure it out it works fantastic and helps you to not crush your child, but again, it was never clarified somewhere that I could see.
I hope no one takes the above as reasons not to buy this car seat. I detail the above only to save other people the headache of figuring out a manual that is poorly worded at times. There's lots of pictures which is nice, but car seat makers don't need to assume we're all illiterate. Place a paragraph or two in the manual that clarifies how your car seat works. Really, it would be fine.
Highly recommended! |
A must have car seat - best of all
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| Review Date: February 28, 2008 |
| Assessor: Dixie DeBrunce, Missouri |
I just received our seat yesterday and I Like IT!! has all and it has a latch system that can even be used for rear-facing. My 4.5 month ancient smiled and was pleased when we place her in it and my 4 year ancient sat in it to see how it would be for when she is older and she said it was very comfortable! I like all about this seat.
I encourage you though to read the instructions before trying to figure out where they store the latch system out and how to bed in the seat. It is an simple bed in and directions are fantastic just make sure you read first! :)
Since the padding comes off for rear-facing it fits fantastic in a backseat!! |
My only regret....
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| Review Date: September 13, 2008 |
| Assessor: Jacob I. Torres, Appleton, WI USA |
..... was not having learned this carseat in the first place. My wife and I did not grasp that this would have been the only seat we ever needed. We started off with a Graco seat from the Meridian Collection. Clear side is that we had all matching gear. Negative side is that we had to go out and buy a further seat. All in all this was simple to bed in and I am unquestionably confident in it's security. Do not be dissuaded by a previous users post that she could push the seat up and back against the backseat of the car. Making bring up that she thought the baby's face would get slammed into it in a head-on collision (she went with a different brand). Shoddy physics aside, she either installed the seat incorrectly or has stock in the brand she is claiming to have switched to, since I checked on this claim and it is completely fake.
Lots of simple to use adjsutments... I mainly liked the idiot-proof harness strap adjustment that the aforementioned poster/assessor also could not get to work accurately :)
Fantastic seat, fantastic value... make it your first and last hold. |
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