Car seat hire Orlando

vienetta

So I was going to take our boys car seats to orlando in December BUT when I was reading the florida car seat laws it says that all car seats have to be federally approved with the american sticker on them. Well ours just have the EU stickers etc on them so what do we do? Hire them so that they are legal but have no idea how they've been treated or risk using ours?

There must surely be a way round this or a loop hole that I haven't found yet as £5 per day for 17 days is alot on top of the car hire.

richardw

Find the nearest retail outlet to the airport that is selling compliant ones for less than $/£85 ea. get the car and then go and pick the seats up, then go back to the airport to pick the other adult and children up.

meer53

richardw wrote: »

Find the nearest retail outlet to the airport that is selling compliant ones for less than $/£85 ea. get the car and then go and pick the seats up, then go back to the airport to pick the other adult and children up.

After a 9 hour flight with small kids :eek: Plus you then have the problem of fitting them, i've hired car seats in Orlando before and had to get the hire company staff to fit them for me, good luck with that if you've not hired them from the rental company and you need help to fit them !

richardw

Fitting car seats is not difficult http://www.childcarseats.org.uk/choosing-using/fitting-child-car-seats/

Do the research, plan, prepare, save the money.

EssexExile

vienetta wrote: »

...so what do we do? Hire them so that they are legal but have no idea how they've been treated or risk using ours?

If yours will fit American fixings (I have no idea about these things) then I'd take them. Who's going to check them for labels?

richardw

EssexExile wrote: »

If yours will fit American fixings (I have no idea about these things) then I'd take them. Who's going to check them for labels?

The car hire car seat up sell people?
The police if they are doing random checks?
If there was an accident, insurance may not be valid for non compliant seats.