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Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Reviews

Recommended Use

Infants from 5 to 22 lbs and upto 29 inches

Dimensions

Weight without base: 7.5 lbs
Weight with base: 12.7 lbs
Dimensions: 24.2H x 17.5W x 26.7D"

Design and Build

The Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat is a well built, attractive, lightweight and fully featured infant car seat that can additionally be expanded into a travel system by snapping it into a dedicated SnugRider stroller frame.

The car seat itself is particularly good looking and does not look excessively bulky or cumbersome like many other more expensive models on the market.

The quality of the materials used, including the actual fabric throughout and all of the smaller accessories and functional clips, knobs and latches are refreshingly high quality.

This particular infant car seat will certainly outlast your infant carrying requirements and still be in excellent shape to use for your next baby or hand over to another family member or friend to use.

Graco have certainly seemed to put more effort and development expense in improving their construction materials throughout their child car seat ranges and it shows in the overall quality of the Graco SnugRide.

Colors and Patterns

One of the reasons that a lot of parents settle on the Graco SnugRide car seat, when they have finally shortlisted a number of different possibilities is the color and pattern choices available.

There is a wide range of design looks that will certainly suit a wider range of preferences.

What is nice about these color choices is that the final look seems to be a little more chic than many of its competition.

Without a doubt, the current two most popular color and pattern choices are the Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Platinum and the Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Ally.

The Platinum choice offers the most sophisticated looking neutral coloring, whereas the Ally choice is a sophisticated and really cute choice for girls.

The range of color choices does change over time as Graco decides to add another choice to its range, so there is at any one time dozens of different options available.

Safety

Perhaps THE most important consideration when choosing any infant car seat and the Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat excels in this department.

Not only does it fully meet and comply with current US safety regulations, but Graco has ensured that by and large, it thoroughly exceeds them.

There has been extensive testing and crash investigations to ensure that the SnugRide provides the very latest and best protection for the very youngest of infants.

It is the very high safety standards that made the SnugRide one of the most popular infant car seats in the US and has been awarded numerous awards by consumer magazines.

Of course the SnugRide comes with the expected 5 point harness to restrain your infant to the maximum extent in the event of a collision.

The LATCH fitted system means that not only is installation into a car seat base as quick and as easy as could be, but the indicators that are incorporated ensure that you fit the seat securely and safely every time.

EPS collision impact absorbing foam is used throughout to ensure that less of a collision’s energy and crash force is passed to your actual baby.

Practicality

One of the things that most parents that buy this infant car seat love, particularly those that trade up from another car seat is how very light and easy to handle and carry it is.

Graco have a knack of making their infant car seats very light weight when compared to other brands, but at the same time using materials that are actually better than heavier traditional materials.

The actual dimensions and handle design makes the practical process of lifting in and out of your vehicle a breeze and not a constant squeeze through the door space ordeal.

All of the materials used are particularly well finished, so as to not allow anything or anyone get caught up on anything.

The SnugRide comes with a cosy foot muff that is ideal for keeping those tiny toes toasty warm from those colder winds and the canopy stretches out to a greater extent to provide shade and protection from sun, wind and rain.

There are some really effective support cushions, both head and body that do actually provide all of the support that a small baby of this size and age would need.

For those of you that are worried about the usual chest harness straps, a good padded strap protector can be used to provide more comfy chest strap protection.

From a cleaning perspective, the SnugRide Infant car seat is as easy and hassle free to keep clean as any of the more well thought out seats out there.

The seat itself can be fully removed and machine washed, as can the pads.

The other areas that you need to keep clean are easily accessibly by hand and can simply be wiped down.

The materials used for the seating, canopy and pads themselves are of really good standard and certainly look better in real life than the numerous picture that you can find.

Easy expandability and adaptability by way of additional car seat bases and stroller frames make the SnugRide a great and versatile infant car seat to buy.