Graco Car Seat Covers

For those of you that are looking for a car seat cover for your Graco car seat, whether that be to cover and bring back to life a soiled or older worn seat or whether you are just looking for a change of design, you essentially have two choices, depending on the age of your child / type of car seat that you have or are intending to purchase:

Graco Infant Car Seat Covers

For younger babies where you have a car seat / carrier combination.  The cover set usually comprises of two parts – one for the seat itself and the other as a co-ordinated canopy cover, although several sets are also available that provide co-ordinated strap covers as well.

Graco Toddler Car Seat Covers

For the older child that has a standard Graco car seat, these covers are a one piece design that covers the seat unit itself.

With so many third party Graco car seat cover manufacturers available today, it is impossible to list and update a specific review for each variation, so instead, below is a useful list of key considerations that you should bear in mind when looking to buy a Graco car seat cover.

Compatibility

This should be obvious, but with so many cover suppliers on the market today, ensure that you choose a Graco Infant Car Seat Cover that will actually fit the model of baby car seat that you have. Most Graco car seat cover descriptions should either detail specific models that the cover fits or it should state that it is a universal fit for a certain range of Graco car seat. Most of the time, since a wide variety of Graco car seats is of very similar build proportions and dimensions, a particular Graco Car Seat Cover will fit a large number of different models, particularly if the cover itself has elastic built into the hem line.

Car Seat Carrier Combination Sets

Most parents that have purchased an infant car seat for their newborn baby choose a combination car seat and carrier. In the past, it was a problem to find a Graco Car Seat Cover that produced a totally matching effect by having a matching canopy cover included. This is very different today since the ranges of Graco Infant Car Seat Cover Sets have rapidly increased to cater to the demand from parents.

Accommodates 5 Point Harness

Due to the vastly superior safety that a five point harness system offers your baby or infant in the event of an accident, most modern car seats today have them fitted as standard. Graco Car Seat Cover manufacturers are fully aware of this and generally provide for their covers to fit accordingly. However, the effort and costs associated with producing a car seat cover to fit a 5 point harness system infant car seat is greater, with the result that you still find some Graco Car Seat Covers on the market that do not accommodate this type of safety restraint.

Quality of Stitching

Again, this is not such a problem today, as the quality and regulation surrounding the manufacturing of car seat covers has led to a higher quality end product and ensuring the resulting cover is fit for purpose. A Graco Infant Car Seat Cover meets two essential needs. Either parents want to cover and protect their actual car seat from the inevitable spills, drips or everyday messes or they simply want a new look for their baby seat. Whatever the reason, your Graco Car Seat Cover will need to be regularly washed and cleaned and to ensure a good fit, will need to be pulled firmly over the edges of the infant seat itself. Both tasks focus strain on the stitching of the cover edge, which is usually the first place that shows signs of wear. Many car seat cover manufacturers are using double stitching or over-locked stitching to provide additional re-enforcement.

Elasticized Hem

This is particularly important if you are choosing Graco Carseat Covers that are universal fitting. Ill fitting car seat covers on your infant seat can compromise the safety of your baby in the event of an accident. During a front impact collision, the force will propel your baby forward or backwards, depending on whether you have a forward facing car seat or rear facing car seat. With firmly fastened safety harnesses, your baby will be restrained from excessive movement and harm. If your car seat cover is of such poor fit that it can slip in the event of an accident, then it may compromise the car seat’s intended safety restraint position for your baby. Common sense leads you to know whether your Graco Car Seat Cover fit adequately or not.

Color

Again this may seem obvious, but no matter how hard you try, your baby is guaranteed to make the car seat covering dirty. Darker colors are best, although by no means a rule. Graco Car Seat Covers after all are designed to be incredibly quick and easy to remove and wash, but the availability of white infant car seat covers seem like asking for more work than may be necessary!