If your booster seat is approved to ECE R, you have to stop using your seat once the maximum weight has been reached, which is 36 kg based on the regulation. If your booster seat is approved to UN R, you have to stop using the seat once the maximum height has been reached, which is cm based on the regulation.
Each country has own regulations regarding until when a child car seat has to be used. In the UK you are required to use a child car seat until your child is either 12 years old or cm tall — whichever is reached first. In Ireland, children are required to sit in a child car until either 12 years old or cm tall.
If one of these 5 points is not reached yet, your child should still sit in a booster seat:. This page gives you an overview on what tools BeSafe. We also explain why we do so. If you wish to receive more information about the privacy policy at BeSafe. Every visit made to BeSafe. This means that we can look at information from site usage and analyse the content.
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Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. But well worth it to keep your precious cargo safe. So it makes sense to wonder: When baby 2 comes along, can you reuse your old car seat? Or if your friend offers you a seat their child has outgrown, can you use that? The short answer is maybe, maybe not — because car seats have expiration dates.
They expire for a number of reasons, including wear and tear, changing regulations, recalls, and the limits of manufacturer testing. Your car seat may be one of the most-used pieces of baby gear you own, perhaps rivaled only by the crib. Transportation agencies, professional medical associations like the American Academy of Pediatrics , and car seat manufacturers are constantly conducting and evaluating safety and crash tests.
This is a good thing for parents everywhere. Also, technology is forever evolving. Why is our two-year-old laptop already outdated?! This means that car seat safety stats can be improved with as new features, materials, or technologies are introduced. Say you buy a car seat that is rear-facing and will hold your child up to a certain weight, but then the weight guidelines change for a rear-facing seat.
It may not be the law that you have to replace your seat, but the manufacturer may discontinue it and stop making replacement parts — not to mention, you no longer have the safest seat possible for your little one.
You may indeed be using a recent and unexpired hand-me-down car seat with no registration card in sight. Manufacturers such as Britax and Graco publish this on their websites. Looking for information about when your specific car seat expires? Most brands have a page dedicated to safety information where they tell you how to find the expiration date. Baby stores and big-box retailers think Target and Walmart often have car seat recycling or trade-in programs, so keep an eye out or call your local store to ask about their policy.
But actually, there are important safety reasons behind limiting the life of your car seat. Some parents decide to turn a child forward-facing before they outgrow the rear-facing requirements, often because they find it easier to interact with their child or hand them snacks this way, or because they think the child is less likely to get car sick or simply likes it more. And some websites, like Car Seats for the Littles, recommend 4 years old as a suggested cutoff. But before turning the child to a forward-facing convertible seat, they should be:.
Like an infant seat, a convertible seat relies on a five-point harness to keep a kid constrained. High-back boosters provide extra head and side impact protection; backless boosters do not. Our guide to booster seats will be published next month. A child should stay in a high-back booster until their ears reach the top of the head restraint, and then move to a backless booster. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that most children are ready to switch from booster seat to using a seat belt alone somewhere between the ages of 8 and 12 years old.
For more details on choosing a car seat and car seat best practices, see our guides to infant seats and convertible seats.
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