Marathon Roundabout Free Useful Roadmap

We purchased this car seat because of its known quality. So far it is great and I have to say i was worried about the material but my daughter loved it as soon as she sat in it. We even were thinking about taking it off and putting it in her crib so that she would sleep better.

As the wife of an Auburn grad, I’ve come to find that Auburn fans generally take their team spirit to the limit and my husband’s need of an Auburn car seat for our son is a true example. The car seat is the same as any Britax Marathon in style and function (Amazingly great carseat by the way.)
The Navy blue cover has the Auburn “AU” symbol with the word “Tigers” underneath, both in Auburn orange. I, personally, would have liked an Aubie face on there to add some kid appeal but overall, very nice. All my husband’s college friends have been very impressed with it.

My husband picked this car seat out for my 8 month old daughter. The rear facing mode fits very well in the back seat of our Subaru Impreza 2.5i. My husband didn’t even have to adjust his seat. My daughter loves that she see what’s going on outside of the car and rubs hers hands on the seat pattern frequently. in our old car seat she was so restricted that she constantly fought whenever we put her in it but with this seats she goes right to sleep if she’s tired. The restraint system works very well and is easily adjustable. The only drawback to the restraint system is it doesn’t release with one hand, and the bottom latch is a bit difficult to release, I really struggle with it. but at least that means our daughter won’t be able to unbuckle herself.

We purchased this car seat for child #3 and we love it. We wish we had found/invested in Britax from the beginning. We love the ease of securing the seat very tightly, and it is such a plush SAFE ride for our baby!

We already had one of these and liked it so much that we bought a second one for our other car. We tried a Graco car seat but it wouldn’t fit in either of our cars. Actually, it was such an odd shape I couldn’t see how it would fit in any car. This one is perfect and from all the research we did, we found it was one of the safest and best reviewed.

It is really easy to install rear-facing, and a little trickier to install forward-facing. I wouldn’t recommend trying to install it the first time in a hurry, or while sleep-deprived, but once you figure it out it is easy-peasy to do again. The seat is sturdy and seems to be very safe and well-made. I think it was well worth the price, and as a concerned new parent it was very comforting to get this seat in the mail, after considering seats in the store that weren’t as nice. I remember going back in my son’s room quite a bit before he was born, and every time I went in there I would look over this seat with a feeling of accomplishment. Yeah, that is pretty goofy, but aside from his crib it was the nicest/most expensive thing we bought when getting everything ready for the baby. It, unlike a bunch of other baby products we bought, was not something I regret buying.

I’ve had to fuss around with the buckles and other parts as my son has grown out of one setting or another, and I’ve had to take it apart to clean it out a couple times. Nothing was difficult to do. It all comes apart and goes back together without a lot of trouble, and nothing comes apart when it isn’t supposed to. I’ve been using it for about a year now.

I started off with a (hand-me-down) infant-style seat when my son was first born, and definitely prefer this seat. I think it is a lot more comfortable than the infant seat we had, and I think my son felt the same way (he wasn’t as fussy about being put in it). For the same amount of money you could get two cheap seats – one for an infant, and one for a toddler, or you could get one seat that does both jobs, is easy to use, and that is worthy of admiration.

For an infant, you might want to get one of those c-shaped pads for supporting the head while the baby sleeps. Some seats come with it, this one doesn’t, but they sell them just about everywhere and they aren’t expensive.

I did have to cut the instruction book out (it is attached inside the seat with a short cord) so I could read it and install the seat at the same time.