I have a 2.5 year old and a baby due in October and I would like to get a revolving seat for the baby. My 2.5 year old is large (99th percentile for height and weight) and she also gets carsick rear-facing, so she is already forward-facing. I find myself wishing that I had a 360 rotating seat so I could have her rear-facing for short trips (daycare drop-off) and forward-facing for longer trips, because she usually gets sick after 15-20 minutes in the car rear-facing. At this point I don’t want to buy her a rotating seat with them being so expensive and her large size, but I’d like to get the new baby a rotating seat in case the baby is the same way, plus I can enjoy the convenience. I would prefer to keep to a slimmer seat if possible because we might need to do 3-across eventually or I’d like to be able to fit a smaller adult back there occasionally (though our main car is a Honda Pilot which I believe has a good size bench), so I was looking at the Chicco Fit360 and Evenflo Revolve 360 Slim.
I plan on using an infant bucket seat through the worst of winter but would like to switch to the rotating seat after that, so we’re talking a bit less than a year away, but I’d like to watch for sales in the meantime so want to get a better idea now (I also know my MIL is excited to buy something for the baby and she might be willing to buy or chip in for a car seat).
The Evenflo is obviously under investigation so maybe if I choose that seat I should wait as long as I can to purchase and see if the investigation wraps up in the meantime. Chicco seems to have already addressed the possible concerns of the Evenflo investigation with how their seat comes off the base, so the seat might be safer in that regard. But it also has much lower limits (rear-facing weight limit is 40 lbs Chicco vs 50 lbs Evenflo, and rear-facing height limit is 43” Chicco vs. 48” Evenflo). Like I said, my first is very large (mostly height though) and the baby probably will be too.
Which would you choose between the Chicco Fit360 and Evenflo Revolve 360 Slim?
I plan on using an infant bucket seat through the worst of winter but would like to switch to the rotating seat after that, so we’re talking a bit less than a year away, but I’d like to watch for sales in the meantime so want to get a better idea now (I also know my MIL is excited to buy something for the baby and she might be willing to buy or chip in for a car seat).
The Evenflo is obviously under investigation so maybe if I choose that seat I should wait as long as I can to purchase and see if the investigation wraps up in the meantime. Chicco seems to have already addressed the possible concerns of the Evenflo investigation with how their seat comes off the base, so the seat might be safer in that regard. But it also has much lower limits (rear-facing weight limit is 40 lbs Chicco vs 50 lbs Evenflo, and rear-facing height limit is 43” Chicco vs. 48” Evenflo). Like I said, my first is very large (mostly height though) and the baby probably will be too.
Which would you choose between the Chicco Fit360 and Evenflo Revolve 360 Slim?
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