Britax Regent Youth Car Seat Onyx

Best car seat available. Good price, easy to install. We feel safe and secure. Plenty of room to grow for my 4 year old, and also a comfortable and safe seat for my 7 year old. Better than the average booster that is held only by an adult seat belt. Tether anchor gives added security. Would NOT buy any other car seat. We have a small SUV and the seat is very large, so we had to give up the "third" middle seat between the two Regents but SO WORTH it for the saftey. Please check out this video about a five point harness.
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I bought this product after using a Graco booster with 5 point harness six months ago. The Graco seat, which wasn't cheap, was difficult to use and had a bunch of extra useless padding that tore. This Britax seat, while incredibly large, is great and my 3 year old son loves it. He has a small build so I know this will last him a while and it is so easy to use and I feel that he is safer in it. Staying in a 5 point harness is much safer than a normal car seat belt and he's worth it. I plan to buy another when my baby girl is old enough.

I have had this seat now for several months. My son is almost 3 and is tall for his age. I refused to move him to a booster because I feel that he needs to be in a 5 pt harness as long as possible. True, it is a large seat, and I would recommend that you try it out at a local store first to see if it fits in your car. However, it is solid. Between the LATCH and the top tether, it is not going anywhere. My son is very comfortable in it. I plan to buy the same one for my 9 month old once she meets the minimum requirements for it. I have owned Gracos and Evenflos. Nothing compares to this Britax as far as quality is concerned. Plus, I have peace of mind knowing that my son is safely in a 5 pt harness for many years now. It is more expensive than some others, but think of it this way....how can you question spending $250 on a carseat that will potentially save our most precious cargo in the event of a car accident when you pay tens of thousands of dollars on a car?

This is a great seat. I bought two of the tan color for my van for each of my girls. Then bought two of these in the black for my husbands truck. We did lots of research on this seat and the safest seats out there. This is one of the best. They are HUGE and very comfy. I have two girls ages 7 and 9 1/2 years old. My 9 1/2 year old is very small and only weighs 44 lbs so she is old enough to not be in a seat but she is much smaller than my 7 year old. She had gotten too tall for the straps for our old booster seat. I did not want a booster without the safe 5-point harness. I am so glad we found this seat. It is worth the money. You can not put a price on your child's safety. This will be the last seat you ever buy because it should fit them until they are completely out of a seat.

We purchased this seat for our three year old and gave the Roundabout to her infant brother. The seat is very roomy, and has lots of positions to adjust the straps. The straps have extra cushions on them and they don't tangle. The seat is huge, but since it's in a minivan in a single bucket seat it fits pretty well. Because the seat is so large I do worry that as my daughter's legs get longer she's going to be somewhat crunched; she sits behind the driver's seat, and I can only move my seat so far forward to give her room. The seat was easy to install with LATCH.

The reason I am only giving the seat four stars is because even though the five point harness can be used up to 80 lbs, the seat is only supposed to be installed with LATCH up to 50 lbs. This is per the manual that comes with the seat. After that the seat is supposed to be installed with a regular seatbelt. The whole reason I wanted this seat is because it went up to 80 with the 5 point harness, and I thought that was using LATCH the whole time; I would have liked to know that it only went up to 50 with LATCH before I bought it. I just wonder how much safer it is having a seat with the five point harness when it's only installed with the seatbelt.