Eddie Bauer® Deluxe High Back Booster Seat - Oak Harbor

I bought this for our 3.5 year old as she is growing out of her toddler seat. I thought with the Eddie Bauer name and the good review of safety by a well known magazine that reviews safety that this would be a great seat. It is not. It doesn't sit in my ford explorer in a way that is comfortable for my kid to sit in the seat. She is sitting leaning back at a weird angle, no matter how i adjust the car seat or the car or the latch. i do think the harness adjustment is hard to use, at least compared to the gracos we had. (had for both baby seat and toddler seat). The cup holders are out of reach for her in a normal seated position --- or as normal as you can get in this thing. My husband and i each need a car seat, so i'll put this one in his car (much less use of it) and i am buying a britax and putting that in my vehicle. i would NOT recommend this seat.

After reading a lot of reviews about the different 3 in 1 high back booster car seats, we decided to buy this one. The back's height/shoulder straps was very easy to adjust up or down. We liked that the arm rests made our 3 yr. old feel like a big kid in that they could be flipped up out of the way for her to climb in by herself. Our compaints are that the straps were very hard to tighten when our child was sitting in it - didn't feel safe (seemed like there was something wrong with the tightening mechanism) & the diamond shaped stitching in the seat was all coming loose after only a week of use. We returned it & bought the Graco - Nautilus 3 in 1 & am extremely happy with it! Would definitely recommend spending the little extra $ for it (best price for it was on-line at Wal-Mart).

Purchased this 6 months ago and overall i am very happy. i bought it based on safety reviews and i wanted a seat that my son could stay in with a full harness since that is the safest. i do have some negative comments about this seat. the reclining feature is a pain in the butt to use, and then when you do use it, it causes the bottom of it to shift forward or backward depending on how you're reclining which loosens the slack that keeps the chair tight against the car, making the chair loose and unsafe. the second problem i have with this seat is the LATCH system. when you click both metal pieces to the LATCH, tightening it is difficult. the way it runs through the back of the seat causes it to bunch up and very hard to feed it though the metal click thing when tightening. my son enjoys the cup holder that extends out and he is able to buckle himself in without a problem with is nice.