Safety First Complete Air 65

Up today is a review of our car seats! The Safety First Complete air 65 in flutter and the complete air 65 LX in chromite.

Complete air 65 in flutter

Complete air 65 LX in Chromite

We have had the flutter patter for almost 2 years now and we LOVE this car seat!! I feel like this seat is a very safe seat with the side impact air protection. This seat is easy to use, I love that you do not need to rethread the straps as your child grows, the headrest is fully adjustable and moves the shoulder straps up and down with the two tabs at the top, it has an easy to use release for the straps themselves and it seems to be a very comfortable car seat! This particular seat is forward facing in my vehicle and the one in chromite is rear facing in my vehicle. These seats are taller than many convertible seats which was one reason we purchased this specific style as my husband is very tall and both of our children are also tall for their ages, these seats allow for a decent height range, and the seats are a bit wider so kids can comfortably sit with their legs crossed (indian style) while rear facing if you chose to utilize extended rear facing and allowing your child to rear face to the limits of this seat (which is now the recommendation). Also, the air protect on the headrest makes for fantastic pillows :) my kids always fall asleep leaning up against them!

The only cons to these seats that I have found are that 1. they are difficult to install when in the rear facing position- it took us several attempts to get a good install and still ended up taking them to a car seat safety inspector to be installed properly, we also needed to use pool noodles to get the proper angle on the install due to the seats of my vehicle (jeep grand Cherokee), 2. these seats are rather large, as a result we had to turn our older child forward facing sooner than we had planned (these seats can rear face to 40lbs which is excellent!!), we could not fit tow of these seats side by side rear facing in my vehicle, also they are rather tall seats and only fit rear facing in the center position in my jeep. The only difference that I could find between the regular and the LX was that the LX has an adjustable "base" type thing meant to make it easier to get a proper install especially while rear facing, in my opinion it is not worth the extra $50-$60 for the LX model as we still needed to put pool noodles under it to get the proper level for installation while rear facing. I should also note that in my jeep I don't have latch in the center seat position and so the rear facing seat is installed with the seat belt, but the forward facing one is installed using latch which made installing it very easy!