This seat is NOT worth the price, it's not even worth half that. They make some claims that sound REALLY nice, but...they don't really carry through on them.
9 yr life span, cool thing to offer no other seat has quite that life span so it's cool. About the only Pro this seat has and it's still not worth buying.
It's a PAIN IN THE BUTT to install, it took me several tries and over an hour to install this seat in my truck. Not to toot my horn but I can get every other car seat installed in my truck in less than 5 minutes, so an hour is insane. Not easy to install. Worse still to adjust the harness height you have to uninstall the WHOLE seat so there goes the easy to adjust harness claim... which oddly enough it's just as hard to get the seat out as it is in. The top tether loosening thing is situated so that it's BEHIND the car seat and mashed "face down" between the frontier and the vehicle seat... that's fun to undo. Fun like falling down stairs.
The next CON, the harness straps are flimsy and twist really easily. On my old reliable Marathon the straps were firm and never twisted it was why I bought another britax, but Britax went cheap and put crap harnesses on this seat. Which is sad and disturbing because the seat isn't cheap!
Still not done (sorry-to you the reader not Britax) the "awesome cupholders" are positioned so low on the seat that once it's installed you can't open them... The cover is another area where Britax must have decided that cutting costs was okay, I've had this seat for 3 MONTHS as of today and the cover is falling apart. The mesh is coming apart, seams popping open and it fraying in places. This seat is supposed to last 9 YEARS and the cover is falling apart after 3 MONTHS? I don't see how it will last 9 yrs... first the cover, what next?
and to add some insult to all this, when I called Britax to complain about the cover falling apart I got a RUDE "customer service" rep who was absolutely no help and basically told me to deal with my falling apart cover, it wasn't her problem. Someone at Britax needs a little Customer Service training, I've worked several CS jobs and if I had pulled even 1/4 the stuff she did I would have quickly found myself in the unemployment line.
The moral of this story: Buy the Graco Nautilus, it's 100x better and $100 cheaper. Easier to install, the cover is fantastic, it has cupholders your child can really use, a neat cubby in each armrest for treasures and the harness doesn't twist. It has the same harness slot heights as the frontier and also becomes a booster, there's no reason at all to buy the Frontier. The Nautilus even has girly cover options and Graco has good customer service.
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