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3KIDSNOMONEY

him regarding the loola pram. emailed seller straight after i bought it and they said they wouldn't sell anything they wouldn't be happy to use. Went into my local mothercare and they don't stock it. unfortunatley the seller lives 25 miles away from me and i paid cash for it. Have used it today and was desparate to see another mum with the same pram so i can pounce on her and see if her pram shakes!!!! For all i know all these prams could be like this but i would really like to know for sure. Blaming OH as he wouldn't let me buy a new one - bet he wishes he had let me now.

heather38

izoomzoom wrote: »

I am looking at a maclaren techno XT and we tried one in mothercare yesterday, and I have asked two other mums and so far no complaints (now don't all come along and burst my bubble by telling me stuff to put me off OR bidding like mad on ebay :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: )

i have one of them, and it's ok but (sorry!), when the seat is laid flat it's nearly impossible to get into the basket at the bottom, so you have to use the handles for bags, and as the pram is so light it can't take the weight of too many bags. and the other thing is it doesn't fit in the boot of my car very well, so it mainly lives upright behind the drivers seat. oh and another thing is you need two hands to lay the seat down which is a bit of a pain, but i might just be used to my pram having a one handed release for the seat.
i do like the colour though, i have the pink and chocolate one.

izoomzoom

heather38 wrote: »

i have the pink and chocolate one.

is it def the tx techno - only seen choc / pink in xlr version (which i luv, but not the price ....

SeptemberBaby_2

Aww, 3kids, hope you get it sorted. Perhaps email the seller again and request a demo as you didn't have the time when you bought it? Bit mean of them if they have sold it and it was faulty :mad: . SIL bought a second hand Loola off eBay too but has just got rid of it after 4 months (hope you weren't the buyer! :rotfl::o). She kept getting stuck in shop aisles and it was really bulky in her carboot.

I also do like the idea of baby facing me but now Poppy is 7m she likes to look out and about now (far more interesting things to look at than me! :rolleyes:). We have the Silver Cross 3D which convertes from forward facing carrycot and carseat modes to the outward pushchair which we use now.

Try and email again and see what happens. Its too much money to be wasted if you don't feel its right :grouphug:

xxx

tsstss7

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

please forgive me if you have already read my other post on the family board but i thought i would repost on here.

just bought a second hand loola of ebay (paid cash:mad: ). on testing it out at home it seems very wobbly, the top bars move a lot and the actual seat can be moved back and forwards slightly. is this normal, if it is then i am happy, but obviuosly i don't want to put my baby in something dangerous that is going to fall apart. obviously i am annoyed at myself (and OH who wouldn't let me buy new). Any advice would be great, thanks.

HI 3 kids - I have had one of these from new (wrote a bit about it in a previous post last week) it is a bit rickety I would say...the seat moves forward and back a little - not sure what you mean by the bars at the top though do you mean the handles? Mine aren't loose at all if that answers your question ...if not let me know and I'll have a closer look ( I'm in the car alot so only use it to go into town and weekends really)

3KIDSNOMONEY

tsstss7 wrote: »

HI 3 kids - I have had one of these from new (wrote a bit about it in a previous post last week) it is a bit rickety I would say...the seat moves forward and back a little - not sure what you mean by the bars at the top though do you mean the handles? Mine aren't loose at all if that answers your question ...if not let me know and I'll have a closer look ( I'm in the car alot so only use it to go into town and weekends really)

HI, thanks for responding. when i say the bars i mean the barswhich run down each side which have the handles on the end. They are made up of two parts and the top part wobbles. i wasn't sure if this was to make it easy turning or a fault. So if i wobble the handle the whole bar along the side moves. hope that makes sense.

Fritha_2

izoomzoom wrote: »

is it def the tx techno - only seen choc / pink in xlr version (which i luv, but not the price ....

Just to wander in... atm,the xt or the xlr are the one we're thinking of getting for when the baby's born (so thanks for me for the downsides Heather, very good to know, hmmm, that could sound sarcastic written down! It wasn't, I really do mean it!) and I discovered both the xt and xlr (the dark blue one and a peachy one) in our local Costco. Plus VAT the xt was about £130 and the xlr was £140 which is about what you'd pay for the xt in other shops :-) Hope that helps :-)

heather38

izoomzoom wrote: »

is it def the tx techno - only seen choc / pink in xlr version (which i luv, but not the price ....

woops its the xlr i have, i got it for £130 in toys r us using some vouchers i got ( or kennedy did!) as a gift. and it came with all the acsessories free which were extra when i looked at it in john lewis. bonus!

tsstss7

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

HI, thanks for responding. when i say the bars i mean the barswhich run down each side which have the handles on the end. They are made up of two parts and the top part wobbles. i wasn't sure if this was to make it easy turning or a fault. So if i wobble the handle the whole bar along the side moves. hope that makes sense.

Walked to school this morning so can give a more qualified response - yes my handles do rattle (never really noticed before) but not so much that you would think it was falling apart. The top bar that attaches to the handles moves too but no big gaps or anything. I think that because the prams are so solid it might be a big change for you perhaps - I thought mine was very "flexible" when I first started using it as initially I used an old fashioned silver cross and they are very sturdy. I've got used to it however and it does seeem to be able to withstand my hulking big 6 mth old (he's only about 5" shorter than another baby/toddler in the family 8 mths older than him).

At one point I did think about trading it in for something else but there is no other pram system really that ticks all the boxes for me like the loola does - just peeved now they've bought out the loola up as the resale value on mine is going to suffer .....:mad:

3KIDSNOMONEY

tsstss7 wrote: »

Walked to school this morning so can give a more qualified response - yes my handles do rattle (never really noticed before) but not so much that you would think it was falling apart. The top bar that attaches to the handles moves too but no big gaps or anything. I think that because the prams are so solid it might be a big change for you perhaps - I thought mine was very "flexible" when I first started using it as initially I used an old fashioned silver cross and they are very sturdy. I've got used to it however and it does seeem to be able to withstand my hulking big 6 mth old (he's only about 5" shorter than another baby/toddler in the family 8 mths older than him).

At one point I did think about trading it in for something else but there is no other pram system really that ticks all the boxes for me like the loola does - just peeved now they've bought out the loola up as the resale value on mine is going to suffer .....:mad:

thanks - maybe it is just the way they are then and mine moves a bit more as it is used a bit more. I have been using it and definitely prefer seeing baby - wish i had bought one when he was born. got a graco mosaic and the resale value on that is tiny.

if anybody else has one and can tell me if the bar that has the handles on moves and if the seat moves back and forth i would be grateful. i am such a worrier and should have bought a new one in the first place.