Car seat expiration
This is why car seats expire in 6 years. This test shows a dummy in a 10 year old car seat. The straps break free and the child flies out.
Car seat expiration
This is why car seats expire in 6 years. This test shows a dummy in a 10 year old car seat. The straps break free and the child flies out.
I’m curious why the car seat is backwards and NOT properly placed as parents have been instructed by the car seat companies
This is totally meaningless. Even if you buy into the expiry idea, they have to show the same test with a new seat to show if there’s any difference. How do we know the new seat would perform better? Useless.
This is totally meaningless. Even if you buy into the expiry idea, they have to show the same test with a new seat to show if there’s any difference. How do we know the new seat would perform better? My father works at a lab that tests these and he said as long as the safety features are up to date and the seat is in good condition the expired seats perform just as well. The manufacturers won’t test older seats so they don’t have to stand behind them legally, and so they can sell more seats!
Hold on there. If this was legit, shouldn’t they also have tested a brand new car seat (similar model) under the same conditions? Shouldn’t they have shown “before” pictures of this car seat showing how you couldn’t tell it was gonna break? Shouldn’t we have seen “after” photos of exactly what failed? Hey, WAIT A MINUTE… the video was obviously “obtained” and only the poster claims it has anything to do with expired seats. /skeptical
“Please tell me there is more than one freaking video as proof that car seats are bad after six years!”
What badboy37 said. Seriously. Do we freak out if we are in regular car seats that are older than 6, 7, 8 or even 10 yrs old. All that worry about UVB rays … the interior of cars suck it up all day long! One video without any info on type or condition or anything about the seat is some of the most inconclusive bs I have ever seen. Can we see real studies, please?
“Please tell me there is more than one freaking video as proof that car seats are bad after six years!”
What badboy37 said. Seriously. Do we freak out if we are in regular car seats that are older than 6, 7, 8 or even 10 yrs old. All that worry about UVB rays … the interior of cars suck it up all day long! One video without any info on type or condition or anything about the seat is some of the most inconclusive bs I have ever seen. Can we see real studies, please?
Please tell me there is more than one freaking video as proof that car seats are bad after six years!
@MarTrose8 Several times a year Babies “R” Us has a carseat trade in. You can bring in your expired seat and get a discount on a new one.
One dead little bastard lol .
OK so what do you do with your expired car seat?
UV rays break down the plastic. Has anyone ever seen sun bleached plastic? It works the same way with carseats.
People are reading a lot into this video. Where are the specks on the test? How will a new seat perform under the same conditions? Without this information the video is nothing but propaganda.
All car seat manufacturers I spoke to claim that the expiration date is a safety measure based upon wear and tear assumptions for the belt and not the plastic. They are very conservative and are specked around a worst case scenario.
Buy a new seat if you can’t access the risk, not just because it’s old.
People are reading a lot into this video. Where are the specks on the test. How will a new seat perform under the same conditions? Without this information the video is nothing but propaganda.
All car seat manufacturers I spoke to claim that the expiration date is a safety measure based upon wear and tear assumptions for the belt and not the plastic. They are very conservative and are specked around a worst case scenario.
Buy a new seat if you can’t access the risk, not just because it’s old.
People are reading a lot into this video. Where are the specks on the test. How will a new seat perform under the same conditions? Without this information the video is nothing but propaganda.
All car seat manufacturers I spoke to claim that the expiration date is a safety measure based upon wear and tear assumptions for the belt and not the plastic. They are very conservative and are specked around a worst case scenario.
Buy a new seat if you can’t access the risk, not because it’s old.
@Digitaizen I agree with you on belts… I got 1988 station wagon, the driver’s and pasinger seat belts move automatically and i can tell that the pasinger seat belt is not going to last much longer
@Digitaizen – The belts didn’t fail. Watch closely. They rip right through the shell of the seat. The plastic shell broke and the harness went right through.
And Britax seats are not cheap. They’re pretty pricey. And over ten years ago, they were the “it” car seat to have.
How do we know this is an expired car seat?? it would have been better if they showed the expiration date then did the test and also did the same test with a new car seat…I would like to see a video like that! I will never use a exoired car seat buit Im just saying.
Well, cheap car seats sure expire, but about the video: I see that belts fail but not the actual car seat itself. I concur that belts not only expire they can easily degrade just being in a heat. I had a few belts stored in a garage (Texas) and after a year I could easily tear them apart with not much force applied to them, even a kid could do it! So, belts do fail cause they are made of plastic fibers that are susceptible to heat. Actual car seat itself – don’t ask me. May be so.
A steel frame would last.
Not only do the carseats break down a lot to where they are unsafe around 6 years..but safety standards change, there are recalls and safety notices. there is a reason why we dont use those infant carseat from the 80s anymore or the kind of carseats that have the bar thing that drop down.. Its called safety.. newer carseats tend to be safer because the engineers and scientists find new ways of keeping your child safer. I NEVER use expired or close to expired carseat. Its just common sense
@haasker07
It is best to err on the side of caution when it comes to a child’s safety. If it is past the manufacturer’s determined expiration, it is technically illegal to use since it would be going against the manufacturer’s guidelines.
@umothra
The manual for the Recaro Start states to discontinue use 8 years after manufacture date due to deterioration, so it DOES expire.
How do we know that this wouldn’t have happened with the brand-new car seat? This video, by itself, doesn’t prove very much. To really show the harm in having an old seat, they should have simultaneously had a new car seat to show if there was any real difference.
As an engineer, I can tell you it all depends on the treatment of the car seat and the quality with which it was made. A well designed car seat made with quality plastics should be good for FAR better than 6 years. I don’t buy that logic “the toy in the sun falls apart”. Fact is, if your car seat breaks from exposure to the sun you have a lawsuit as the plastics are usually protected by the cover, and not to mention there are plenty of plastics designed for UV exposure.
@armorcav98
where did you see this?