High back booster seat or a Turbo booster seat for a 2 1/2 year old weighting 30lbs?

My daughter will be 3 in June but already weighs 30lbs. She is about 36 inches tall. I want to get her a new safe car seat she can grow into. The high back booster seats are still a little chunky and baby looking but she can stay in it to about 80lbs. It has a five point harness but I cant picture her in it longer than maybe 2 more years. The Turbo booster seats are for 30-100lbs and convert from the high back to just the seat. The Turbo booster scares me because it seems flimsy and does not have a five point harness. It is made by Graco and has great reviews but I am torn! Please help!!

ketchupklf

What you really want is to get her a combination carseat that will harness past 40 pounds. Forty pounds is the *minimum* that is recommended by experts to ride without a harness... why go with the minimum when dealing with your child's safety? Even race car drivers stay in a 5 point harness when they race! (Besides which most kids outgrow a seat with a 40 pound harness limit by *height* long before they reach 40 pounds.)

So I would recommend a Graco Nautilus. It will harness her till 65 pounds and it is nice and tall to actually *get* her to 65 pounds. High harnesses weights don't come cheap...but the Nautilus is the cheapest of them (around $150). And yet the Nautilus is well recommended by car seat techs and now comes in a couple of 'pretty' covers that a little girl would love.

Then it will convert to a high back booster till 100 pounds... or a low back booster till 100 pounds if she is grade school age and you decide to let 'pride' factor in. But really I like the high backs like you... unless you have high backed seats in your car they are safer. See the paragraph on High verses Backless here: http://www.cpsafety.com/articles/BoosterShop.aspx

Happy shopping!

beetlemilk

I have the turbo booster with the high back. It is my oldest son's and he is 8 and 58 lbs. If I remember correctly this seat is designed for kids age 4 and up and for weight 40 lbs and up. This is what mine say its several years old, and it sounds like they changed the weight requirements.

I suggest a 5 point convertible carseat that will go to a booster. I got ours at BJ's wholesale, it was 89 dollars and goes from 5-100 lbs, its an Eddie Bauer

goodguy

stick with the high back its safer

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