marks from child seat

[ErikR]

Hi Everybody,

I put my son?s car rear in the rear of my cabrio and fastened it good and tight with the Latch system. I put a towel under and behind it but when I removed them there were very deep marks in the leatherette. My question is will those marks ever come out or are the rear seats ruined?

Erik

[Yasser]

Well they should get a little better but something like that happend to me and im sorry to say but the marks are still there...

[Ferroequine]

Hmm, dunno if they will fully come out or not? How deep are they, and how long was the seat in for? It might take a good number of hot days.

Myself, I've got a a couple of layers of deep fluffy towels under the booster seat (Britax something-rather) to disperse the weight, because it has these two deep rails on the bottom that I'm afraid will mark the seat. I have leatherette also. So far, so good...

[Rakey]

You should NEVER, I mean NEVER use a car seat with towels under it!!!


Car seats are tested and designed to stop serious injury to the most precious thing in your lives, your child. When they are designed and tested, at no point does anyone do this with a towel under it!

Please remove all towels.

What is more important, a few marks on the seat material or your childs safety?

[dietcokeplease]

For fear of incurring the wrath of Rakey there are specific seat protectors that you can buy from well known stores such as Halfords and Mothercare:

http://www.vertar.com/prodtype.asp?pt_id=109

The mats have been "crash tested" and most of them are rubber or rubberised to grip a seat even better.

http://www.kiddicare.com/invt/xdlplhtwostgsetprot

I use two of these from Halfords/Sunshine Kids:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...lectorGroupId=

I use them with 2 Maxi-Cosi Priori XPs in our Volvo V70 (leather seats). Without the mats the seat does mark - not bothered about; without the mat there is some lateral movement of the seat even on it's tightest setting. With the mat, the seats have recovered and there is virtually no movement as the double sided rubberised mat stops this completely.

[Ferroequine]

DCP,

Those look pretty decent. Curious as to why we can't buy stuff like that across the pond...

[dietcokeplease]

MiniVee,

You can buy this stuff in Canada/USA. The packaging on the Sunshine Kids Grip It Mat was North American (can't remember if it was USA or CDN).

Here's a Canadian site:

http://www.babyproofingplus.com/cat139_1.htm

USA site:

http://www.familyonboard.com/car_sea...shinekids.html

And finally the Sunshine Kids Juvenile Products Site:

http://www.sunshinekidsjp.com/Pages/wheretobuy.html