Child Passenger Safety Month | Graco Nautilus 3 in 1 Car Seat With Safety Surround
Disclosure: We were sent a Graco Nautilus 3 in 1 Car Seat With Safety Surround for review purposes. All opinions are 100% our own.
September is child passenger safety month. It’s amazing how many people I see on the road that still allow their children to bounce around in the car. As a mother that has lost a child… I know how fragile life can be and I will do everything in my power to make sure my children are as safe as possible while in the car. From the safest car seats and booster possible to simply making it click.
In honor of Child Safety Passenger Month Graco sent us their Graco Nautilus 3 in 1 Car Seat With Safety Surround, perfect for Ethan. This particular seat is a forward facing only seat that protects your child from 20-100 pounds. It is top rated by leading consumer magazines and publications, it meets both Graco’s side impact testing as well as Europe’s side impact standard and is engineered and crash tested to meet or exceed US standard FMVSS 213 (Side-impact tested for occupant retention by the harness system, New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) – Peak Crash Force approximately 2X Car Seat Standard and Extreme Car Interior Temperatures).
A few of the other features that make this seat a great choice are:
- EPS, energy absorbing foam for effective impact energy management
- 3-position recline helps keep your growing child comfy
- One-hand, adjustable headrest easily adapts to your growing toddler’s needs
- Contoured armrests with cup holder and storage pockets
- Online videos help ensure proper seat installation
Right out of the box this seat is set up for the smaller side of the spectrum. Because my Ethan just turned 5 and is near 48” I needed to make some adjustments for him to use it. This included moving the harness height up. This is done from the rear of the seat. I unbuckled one strap at a time, pulled it through to the front, rethreaded it through the correct slot then up and over the red rolling piece and re-hooked it back into the metal clip. This adjustment went quickly and smoothly.
Adjusting the harness to fit Ethan when sitting was as simple as pushing the lever and pulling on the harness. To tighten it back up I pulled the strap coming out of the front of the seat until snug (snug as a hug we like to call it).
My biggest issue was moving the crotch strap to the front-most position. There are two slots for this and the seat arrives in the smallest/closest position for smaller children. To move it you tilt the clip underneath and push it through sideways and pull up. I had issues with this process and had to have my husband (who has very strong hands) do this for me. It took him several minutes to wiggle it through, but he was able to push it back through the front position easily and the seat was ready for Ethan.
Adjusting the height of the headrest was very simple. See the red button directly center above Ethan’s head? You grab and press that while pulling up… this allows you to slide the back up and down for correct positioning.
This seat is equipped with latch but because of the combined weight of Ethan and the seat exceeding safe limits for latch we installed it with a seat belt and a locking clip (older van without locking seatbelts). These limits are clearly written in the instruction manual and I strongly urge everyone to read and follow them. Yes, installing with latch is so much easier…. but the force of a larger child combined with the weight of the seat puts extreme stress on the latch system which can make it fail. A seat belt is the only true safe install with larger children.
The Nautilus not only functions as a forward-facing car seat / 5 point booster (20-65 pounds), but it also converts to a belt-positioning booster from 30-100 pounds (Ethan will remain in the 5 point harness until 65 pounds) as well as a backless booster seat from 40-100 pounds. This car seat is steel-reinforced for strength and durability, side impact tested and has EPF foam. With the one-hand height adjustable head rest, 3 position recline and contoured arm rests (with cup holder and storage pockets for little treasures) I find this seat an affordable as well as great choice for children ready to face forward.
Buckle Up For Safety:
In honor of National Child Passenger Safety Month, Graco is sponsoring a “Buckle Up for Safety” event. For every pledge received Graco will donate $1 to Safe Kids Worldwide until they reach their goal of 10,000 pledges!
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I learned that it is extremely important to install car seats correctly and Graco is working to make sure that all of their seats are easy to install.
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The Quattro Tour.
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