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The Urban Kanga is a forward facing car seat with a weight requirement of 9-18 kg. It is not convertible and should not be installed rear facing. The reclining modes offer even more comfort to your child during road trips, while the harness and headrest are easy to adjust to deliver the best fit. The double cupholders are dishwasher-safe and fit most standard-sized sippy cups. And, since messes are part of taking a family road trip, the seat pad can easily be taken off and machine washed (without uninstalling the entire set-up). But the best feature of this travel car seat is that it can fit children up to 100 pounds and transforms into a booster seat, so you are basically investing in a car seat that will be with your kid for most of their childhood. TinySeats is a bit of an unusual one with the isofix base. Again no crash test on it. It looks heavy. The inclusion of a booster mode seems strange and I wonder why they have done that, perhaps to make it seem like it lasts longer? But once you are in the booster age/stage, you will surely want a lighter and more practical travel option than this. I also wonder if including a booster option compromises on the other modes, it does seem to in most multi-mode seats for everyday use (that have been crash tested). However, great to have another option for rear facing if you want to, and the isofix plus support leg is likely to offer better protection from a frontal crash, though it doesn't look that different from the Urban Kanga for side impacts. As you note, needing isofix may be a problem.
Using a restraint for which your child is too young is better than using nothing at all (or sharing a seat belt with them), but it doesn’t provide enough protection to sufficiently reduce their risk of injury.” For all families in Singapore without a car (that’s a lot of us!), safety for kids travelling in taxis comes first. Car seats for newborns and toddlers Maxi-Cosi Cabriofix While the Kinderkraft Comfort Up car seat is approved to (ECE R44/04) regulations, our tests go further, making them more demanding than the British standard safety tests. However, we feel our tests more accurately reflect what could happen in a real crash. This baby to child car seat has passed the regulatory tests required by ECE R129/i-Size to be sold as suitable for children from 40-125cm. But this seat scored poorly in our own frontal-impact tests. We also identified issues with installation and fitting which could mean the seat is not used as safely as it should be.But hey, no product is a one-size-fits-all, right? Knowing these limitations can help in making an informed decision that best suits the family’s needs. Just an Alternative Otherwise if your DC2 is over 9kg (which is likely) then you're looking for a Group 1 seat. Unfortunately none of these are particularly portable, although I did come across this the other day on another thread, which looked like a good compromise: urbankanga.com/ Our crash tests go beyond the minimum legal requirements for the current car seat regulations (R44.04 and R129), and they're derived from tests by Euro NCAP, the organisation that carries out crash tests on cars.
I hope this doesn’t come across as a sales message. I really love mumsnet and have used it for years so I’m happy to answer any specific questions you might have around the RyRy Scallop car seat or any other car seats in general. I know a fair bit about car seats these days!!Remember, you can sign up to the pregnancy, baby & child newsletter to receive safety alerts, including recalls. However, you should always take the time to register your new car seat with the manufacturer so you can be automatically alerted if there is a recall on the seat. While the Urban Kanga car seat serves its purpose for short trips, it’s not the coziest option for nap time on the road. However, as a responsible manufacturer we are working on introducing an equivalent model to the Comfort Up which also complies with the new approval regulation R129.' What other Don't Buy car seats have we tested recently?
The Trunki Boostapak is a reasonably portable option for a 4yo though the Bubble Bum does much the same thing and is even smaller to carry. I think the difference between these is small so really personal preference.
What really makes the Urban Kanga car seat a game-changer is its unbeatable portability. Unlike many traditional baby car seats that are heavy and hard to move around, this one is light but still safe. Details of the certification can be found on the orange label with the unique approval license number, the type of approval, the mass group approved for and the details of the manufacturer. In an ideal world, we’d all have our kids safely ensconced in a car seat in our SUV as we blissfully glide around the island. But for those of us unwilling to sell an organ to enjoy the luxury of car ownership in Singapore, we regularly suffer varying levels of torture as our little ones use a taxi as their own personal trampoline park. Not to mention winding down the windows in an attempt to do a Houdini-esque escape.
Do not use a child safety seat in the front seat if the vehicle seat is equipped with an active front air bag as this can be dangerous. This does not apply to side air bags. Ps we found a car seat from Halfords at 3.5kg which tilts and goes up to age 6. It’s not foldeable (this may be why other brands no longer sell folding seats due to more recent regs) but is v sturdy. Not cheap but the plus side is 2 wks of non car seat hire washes its face. The Urban Kanga is only 3 kg urbankanga.com/en/car-seats/ and doesn't require isofix, but goes only up to 4 years Is the Urban Kanga car seat worth the investment? Well, if the family doesn’t own a car and short taxi or Grab rides are the norm, then this seat might just be a perfect match. At the end of the day, you’ll just have to go with your gut on how you feel safest travelling in these situations.
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He's technically the minimum weight and height to use the booster systems, Mifold, Trunki Boostapak or Bubble Bum, but he's very little and I'd be concerned that the belt wouldn't sit properly on his shoulder with these seats. Possibly it depends how much driving you are likely to be doing, what the roads/driving style is like where you're going to and whether it would be a "better than nothing" kind of scenario (they would almost certainly be better than nothing). If you go for one of these, my preference is Trunki, but it is bulkier than the other two. I wouldn't consider something like the Britax Eclipse or the Joie Steady because they are too similar to the one we have now, which works great in our car but is a huge pain to carry around in an airport or a train - we were really looking for something more compact and which folds a bit. For more information on Which? car seat testing, read our guide on How we test car seats. Tagged as: The crash test rating is not good; the side impact protection is basically nothing at all (more of a problem for this age group which is why it gets a worse score) and they rate it with a high risk of making an error while using, which is a problem, because if it's not fitted correctly then it's likely to perform worse even than this already not-great score.
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