Graco My Ride 65 DLX Convertible Car Seat, Empire
From Graco
| Price: | $159.99 |
Product Description
Help keep your growing child secure in this innovative convertible car seat. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends your child ride rear facing up to 2 years of age, so My Ride 65 keeps your baby rear facing up to 40 pound and forward facing until 65 pound The seat is also LATCH equipped, Side Impact Tested, and features convenient integrated cup holders.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #450 in Baby Product
- Color: Empire
- Brand: Graco
- Model: 1871689
- Released on: 2013-06-04
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 32.01" h x20.10" w x21.15" l,.0 pounds
Features
- Click connect system provides a one step secure attachment to all Graco click connect strollers to create a travel system
- Versus using the locking clip
- Easy to read level indicator helps eliminate guesswork from the installation process, so you can feel confident its been done right
Most helpful customer reviews
188 of 194 people found the following review helpful.My son was unusually tall for his age, so when he outgrew his carry-along infant car seat at around 6 months, my husband and I went looking for a convertible car seat that would do extended-rear-facing not just with weight but more importantly (for us) with height. We read all of the reviews (email me for some great car seat websites!) and eventually decided on the Graco MyRide 65. If I was reviewing this seat for him, I would have given it five stars. We loved the one we purchased so much that we bought a second for my husband's car. Easy to install, easy to use, comfortable with lots of leg-room rear-facing, the cover is easy to remove, clean, and put back on - we LOVE these car seats! So when we were searching for car seats for my daughter, we decided to do without the pumpkin seat in my car, and just go straight to the MyRide.Very briefly: The MyRide is one of the 3 tallest car seats on the market, soft and wide with cup-holders, it does rear-facing up to 40 pounds and forward-facing up to 65. It comes in a variety of patterns (each store carries a different pattern, so make sure you check out BRU, Target, Walmart, and Bed Bath & Beyond and decide which pattern you love!) and stays soft and plush after years of use. It not only has a tall back but also a tall base so that your child can see out of the car window, making rear-facing (and eventually forward-facing) more pleasant.It is easy to tighten and loosen when facing either direction. However, rear-facing it may not fit in smaller cars because of the tall back, and fitting 3-across is not possible because of the width of the seat and the cup-holders. In addition, we encountered a serious problem when trying to use the car seat for a newborn.We installed our daughter's car seat, but COULD NOT get the straps to tighten correctly. The straps would tighten exactly as they were supposed to until our daughter was actually IN the seat, and then the straps would not tighten at all. It wasn't just a strength issue - neither my husband nor I could get the straps to budge at all when our daughter was in the seat. My husband must have reinstalled that car seat 5 times, thinking perhaps the legs were on the straps, perhaps he had put it in wrong, etc. Since we have two others exactly like it and had never encountered this problem before, we had no idea what was going on. We could only get the seat to tighten by manually pulling the straps through the back and tightening with the other hand at the same time, which was difficult, required a lot of strength, and the straps still never got as tight as I wanted the belts to be.I was very disappointed, thinking we had somehow gotten a defective seat, although I didn't see how since it tightened fine when no one was sitting in it. So I went online. There, I found many people who had had the same problem. All but one had returned the seat, deciding that it was defective and giving the seat poor reviews. However, one person had come up with a different solution. She recommended we remove the infant insert padding. I didn't see how some fabric and padding could be causing such serious problems, but since my son had been older when we had used the MyRide with him and had never needed the insert, I decided I had nothing to lose, and pulled out the insert. Immediately, the seat worked perfectly. I have no idea how the fabric was catching the straps in such a manner, and I still don't get it to this day, but the problem was solved.I could not use the seat with the infant insert. However, my daughter was too small to fit snugly in the seat without the insert. In the end, my husband and I decided to use the pumpkin seat again (luckily, it hadn't expired) until our daughter was a little bigger, and then use the My Ride. Our daughter has now been in the MyRide for 2 months without even the smallest problem.So, in conclusion, this is a great car seat for bigger babies and toddlers! We DO still love it, rear-facing and forward-facing. It is easy to remove the cover, easy to fasten, etc. But in my experience, it cannot be used with the infant insert, and this makes it a terrible choice for newborns. If you don't believe me, just read some of the other reviews, or do a Google search. You will find a ton of people who have had similar problems with the straps. However, if you are looking for a seat to replace your carry-along car seat because your infant has outgrown it, look no further. This one is otherwise perfect.
93 of 99 people found the following review helpful.We got this carseat last week for our 3 year old daughter. She was forward facing in her other carseat, and Alpha Omega Elite, and I hated it every time I put her in it. She frequently falls asleep in the car and her head would flop so badly that I worried her neck would snap sometimes. We tried neck pillows, etc. Nothing worked. So we saw this seat and she sat in it on the display, along with about 5 others. She fit so nicely and loved it! So we got it. I am so very happy with it. She has fallen asleep in it a few times now, and her head stays put and she looks very comfy. She actualy talks about her new seat and jumps around with excitement when its time to get in it.The seat does seem really bulky, and my husband wasn't sure it would fit in my Mazda 3. I have to say, it's smaller than it seems. It fits very well and was super easy to install. It took him about ten minutes and it doesn't budge. I highly recommend this one!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.I've owned this seat for a year now ... finally getting around to writing a review. Things were okay with this seat until about a month ago. It's a little bulky, but expected for a convertible seat that will last a good long while. All of a sudden, I noticed my daughter not having the chest clip buckled. I kept thinking I was losing my mind and forgetting to buckle her in until I heard my son yell from the back seat of the car that she was unbuckling the chest clip. After she would unbuckle the chest clip, she would take the straps off her shoulders and turn around in her seat and wave at me. She just turned 18 months old ... and is rear facing. Needless to say, this had me super worried. She continues to unclip the chest clip. I have her straps tight enough and the chest clip in the proper position. I've contacted Graco and I'm not the first one with this problem. Their first response to me was that they designed the chest clip to open easily in an emergency situation. And that sometimes babies are 'smart enough' to figure them out. They sent me a replacement clip ... which is the same clip that is already on the seat and surprise, surprise, just as easy to open for an 18 month old. I had to contact them again after stopping every 2 minutes on the road to buckle her back in. This is so NOT safe and SO not right on so many levels. Graco got back to me and giving me a refund check AFTER I send in this seat. I'm honestly surprised that they have not issued a recall or changed the clip design after reading all the horror stories of the same thing happening online. I do think this seat is nicely made and I enjoyed it - but my child's safety is the main concern and she's definitely not safe if she can undo half the straps holding her into it. And for Graco to realize this problem and not change the design is alarming.
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