New Car Seats under $200

Can anyone recommend new car seats that cost less than $200 each or close to $200. Because we have to buy 2 we can't really afford more than that BUT if you really are paying for quality then we may have to look at spending more.

There are 'Super Nanny' & 'Babysafe' new carseats on TM for sale but not sure of the quality.

Thanks

I've got Narnia's and they are FAB.

Farmers Sales always have ones under $200. I have an Evenflo which was about $160 on sale and a good friend has the "hi top" or something like that and it was about the same price.

They should be having a Easter sale too

Hi Yvette, I've been doing a fair bit of research on this recently as we need a second car seat (just have to have one in each of our cars and JJ has outgrown his capsule now). I've pretty much decided on the Cosco Scenera - only $180, it rear faces until 16kg which is important to me, and it doesn't require tethering while rear facing (cos I find the tether strap on our Safe n Sound a PITA!). Wish I'd discovered it before we spent the money on the other one

The tether strap is needed for some seats to make sure they're secure - bolts into an anchor point in your car (or sometimes to the seat in front).

The Scenera needs it when forward facing but that won't be a problem, I only hate the ones going to an anchor point while rear facing because you have to lift bubs over it to put them in.

See, PITA:



The annoying bar thing on some (like our Royale) isn't really that annoying, it just pulls out and sits against the back of the actual car seat for extra stability, to stop the seat rocking back and forth, you don't actually have to attach it

For research purposes, the Ask Our Experts section on here and the (same expert's) website Child Restraint Safety (where I stole that pic from) are both really useful

LOL I totally understand! The only thing that has me wavering on the Scenera is that the service life is only 5-7 years (compared to 10 years for Evenflo, for example). But my next preferred seat (an Evenflo one) is $379, which is a big jump from $180

Hehe, I read that somewhere too (on TNN I think), but my boy is a shortar$e like both his parents so I'm not worried about that!

We have the cosco one. Its been great!!! Henry has been in it since birth - although someone did lend us a capsule which was very usefull too. He's very comfy in it and it doesn't have a lot of extra c**p that i think is completly over the top. We didn't want to spend heaps of money but wanted a solid one. Hope that helps