Womder if this childs seat has ever been involved in an accident...?!

pitkin2020

FilthyLuka wrote: »

To be honest the sad (or happy) thing is that the vast majority of car seats are never in a prang so are being landfilled after a few years use.

The seats seam to me to be mainly large lumps of polystyrene and hard plastic - if there had been damage I would hope to see it

It would be great if the manufacturers came up with some form of indicator to say that it has been in an accident - maybe a colour change area or dye capsule that is activated when the seat has a big jolt. (patent pending). I doubt this would happen as it would impact on their yearly sales of £100+ seats.

How many of us buy 2nd hand cars that could have been in accidents and repaired but not reported to the dvla? or have had rear passenger doors replaced? surely the car body is the first line of defence in an impact for everyone in the car

I spent an age researching car seat testing reports when I got my kids seats and got the best I could - the best being from the AA - sadly i cant find any similar reports anymore, they seem to have stopped doing tham. i dont hold much weight to the Mother & Baby review who seem to ask 3/4 mums to see what they think - hardly a test for safety. Even Which? weight their review with a large percentage considering how easy it is to clean and how it looks ( around 40% iirc)


If I could only afford a cheap seat like a Nania which I have seen poor reports for or a 2nd hand 'good' seat which scores well in safety reports I think I would go the 2nd hand route and try and get it from someone I found trust worthy - any decent person wouldn't sell a seat from an accident but we all know that there are dirtbags who would

...and there lies the problem, you don't know what you are buying unless you genuinely know the person you are buying it from. I am not saying I wouldn't buy a 2nd hand seat but I certainly wouldn't buy one from ebay, gumtree, a car boot, dave from down the pub or anyone else I didn't personally know and trust.