How to choose an automobile chair for the child

How to choose an automobile chair for the child

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Existence of the car practically in each family is not luxury, but vital need for a long time. But except convenience and technical characteristics of the car, it is necessary to take care of safety of passengers. Especially it concerns children therefore it is necessary to approach the choice of a children's automobile chair seriously and responsibly.

Instruction

1. First of all make sure that the chair corresponds to age and the child's weight. Usually products are divided into 5 groups: "0" – cradles for babies, age till 1 year, weight is up to 10 kg; "0+1" – age up to one and a half years, weight is up to 13 kg; "1" – the age from 1 to 4 years, weight is 9-18 kg; "2" - the age from 3 to 7 years, weight is 15-25 kg; "3" - the age from 7 to 12 years, weight is 22 – 36 kg. This conditional division and different firms – producers can have categories.

2. Make sure that a product qualitative and reliable. Check operability of all belts and fixtures. Existence of adjustments of height and width of a back, head restraint, height of side support will allow to adjust a chair in the most comfortable position for your child. Locks and brackets should not jam, and belts on a chair have to be the wide and equipped soft slips. For the child up to 3 years internal Y-shaped or five-dot belts are obligatory. They protect the kid from characteristic injuries of an abdominal cavity and a spine injury.

3. On a product there has to be ECE R44/03 badge. It speaks about compliance of a car seat to the last European Standard of Safety and means that the chair successfully passed all tests.

4. Convenience and mobility - very important qualities for a product. Pay attention to a form of a back and landing of the child. The children's automobile chair should not break a bearing and give to a backbone the wrong situation. The car seat for kids has to be regulated on an inclination: in the provision of wakefulness and the provision of a dream.

5. Surely before purchase try to install a children's automobile chair in the machine. Let at the first installation of a product you will be helped by the selling assistant that you could see visually all procedure and ask the questions interesting you. Take the child in shop that he "tried on" new purchase, it he should sit during the trips on this "throne".

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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