Diono RadianR120 Convertible Car Seat

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16 x 17 x 28.5 inches ; 23 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B005MQR8JI
• UPC: 677726167258
• Item model number: 16725
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 2,956 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
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By : Diono
List Price : $309.99
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Product Description

Color: Storm
The RadianR120 is a highly versatile car seat that could be the only seat you’ll ever need. It comfortably seats rear-facing children from 5-45 pounds, forward-facing children from 20-80 pounds in 5-point harness, then converts to a booster for children up to 120 pounds Built for strength and safety, the RadianR120 has a steel alloy frame, reinforced sidewalls, SafeStop energy absorbing harness, thick, EPS foam panels for side impact protection and our unique Superlatch system for easy installation. The RadianR120 is NCAP crash tested, the industry benchmark for verifying child seat performance in severe accident conditions, and the only car seat rated for latch use with a child up to 80 pounds The RadianR120 sits low on a vehicle seat for easy child boarding, features memory foam padding and infant support pillows. Expandable sides and a longer seat bottom provide extra room and comfort for your growing child. One cup holder is included, with the option to add up to 4 cup holders. In addition to all this versatility, it folds flat for travel and storage, has a 10 year life, and offers amazing safety, comfort and convenience your child won’t outgrow.

 

Diono RadianR120 Convertible Car Seat

 

Product Features

• Rear facing 5 to 45 pounds
• Forward facing 20-80 pounds (up to 53") in 5 point harness
• Booster to 120 pounds
• Steel alloy frame and aluminum reinforced sides
• Infant body support cushions

Buyer Critiques

THE Rapid TAKE: The Diono RadianR120 Convertible Auto Seat is a pretty fine vehicle seat that ought to provide a number of years of use, producing it a really good worth. I don't feel it will be the only auto seat you'll ever own, but it's a particularly flexible seat that covers a wide range of weight and height. It's exceptionally well produced and has a number of nice features.
Full Critique:
CONVERTIBLE Means FLEXIBLE: The Diono RadianR120 is a "convertible" auto seat mainly because it can be utilized in a variety of completely different configurations and for completely different size children. It can be utilized as a rear-facing seat for kids up to 45 lbs and 44 inches as a forward facing vehicle seat for youngsters up to 57 inches and 80 lbs and up to 120 lbs when made use of as a booster with the car's belts.
STURDY CONSTRUCTION: We've owned two mid-priced Britax seats, and I continually thought they had been pretty good. But this Diono is in a complete various category, in terms of the sturdiness of construction and supplies.
Long TERM Worth: This automobile seat may perhaps seem costly. (Or perhaps you're implemented to it by now, from the way all child gear seems so high-priced.) But even setting aside the useful cargo it carries - the several years you'll be able to use this seat tends to make it reasonably priced on a per-year basis. Even alot more so if you have a further kid who can get a lot more use from it.
FOLDS TO A COMPACT SIZE: One particular of the characteristics I like about this car seat is that it folds to a compact size. To me, that would be most beneficial for when I wanted to move the seat, or store it in the vehicle to make space to place the rear seats down to carry cargo. With 2 Britax Roundabouts in the back seat, I've occasionally run out of space for cargo. I cannot truly fit 2 frequent vehicle seats in the front seat to make area in the back when I have a lot of cargo unexpectedly.
THE CATCH - It really is HEAVY: Sounds superb, appropriate? The ideal car seat. What's the catch, I wondered. I realized when the box arrived and I picked it up. The tradeoff for an exceptionally sturdy, folding seat is that it really is heavy. They say it really is 23 pounds, which is 6 pounds heavier than the Britax Roundabout. That might or may not sound like a lot to you, but I am pretty positive the smiling young woman carrying it like a backpack in the image is saying "Honey, can you take this off my back now? Please?"
That may very well matter if you travel by air in those early years when your auto seat begins to seem like a member of the loved ones considering it goes everywhere with you. It depends on your travel style. And perhaps no matter if you get a ride to and from the airport on both ends.
Possibly NOT YOUR First Vehicle SEAT: Personally, I am not certain this would have worked properly for us as an infant seat. We got a lot of use out of a snap-in method with a handle that let us carry the sleeping baby in and out of the auto, plugged into a stroller, could be employed in a restaurant or friends' property, etc. Also, the add-in component that Diono offers for infants seems a little modest, there is not a lot to it.
Maybe YOUR SECOND Vehicle SEAT, Possibly NOT: As mentioned, if you travel a lot with a automobile seat, the weight of this seat may be a bit substantially. Also, the seat height is fairly low, to accomodate larger youngsters. That implies a two year old most likely won't be in a position to see considerably but door and sky from the seat. (The base of the Britax Roundabout we have is elevated fairly a bit.) Not a big deal, but for amusement and possible automobile sickness, a slight advantage goes to a greater seat for smaller youngsters.
NOT A SPACE HOG: This Diono seat takes up only a single seat, in contrast to the Britax Roundabout that genuinely takes up a little way more. (It largely wasn't a dilemma for us, but as soon as in a although we needed to squeeze an adult amongst two Roundabouts and it was pretty awkward.) If you need to have to have three vehicle seats, this a single plays nicely with other people - it really is not trying to take up element of the subsequent seat over.
INSTALLATION: If you've installed a automobile seat before, this a single is considerably the same. The tether to the hook behind the rear seat was a little a lot more awkward than typical, but they are usually a bit awkward.
Don't forget to place your weight on the seat and then tighten up the belt to the LATCH hooks, to get the seat as firm as you can.
BOOSTER? Because my young children aren't booster age but, it took me a small whilst to figure out what that meant. As an alternative of utilizing the built-in car seat harness, you use the lap-and-shoulder belt in the vehicle to hold larger children in the seat. (The LATCH connectors on the car shouldn't be employed to hold the weight of your child as soon as your kid gets bigger - more than 80 lbs.)
CUP HOLDER! There are 4 spots (2 on each side) exactly where you can place the included cup holder. The seat is narrow enough that we can place it on the door side of the seat, to permit area for a compact booster in the middle seat when we are carrying 3 young children in the back.
DIONO? Who? They've been about for numerous years as Sunshine Kids. I am not familiar with either company, but the Diono RadianR120 is a extremely nice, thoughtfully developed car seat. They undoubtedly seem to know what they're doing.
REGISTER: Register your child merchandise with the manufacturer, so they can come across you if there is a recall.
WATCH THE HEIGHTS: We've discovered our youngsters outgrow the heights ahead of the weights - if your children are like that, be confident to maintain an eye on the height limits for your car seats, to preserve them secure. It appears all producers show the weight limits prominently, but make the height limits tough to obtain.
Keep YOUR Child REAR FACING: Ultimately, Google a little on the advantages of keeping youngsters rear-facing past the minimum age of 1 year and weight of 20 pounds. If it works for you, it is the safe way to go. We tried to stick it out till age 2, but finally decided that the carsickness was alot more of a hazard than facing forward. So as with all parenting possibilities - do what works preferred for you and your kid, they are all numerous.

I will say, this seemed like a quite nice sturdy seat. I liked the following items:
1. The truth that it is excellent from birth (assuming the newborn truly fits properly in the seat) all the way by means of booster age.
two. The 45 lb rear facing weight limit
3. Steel frame
4. It is a quite narrow seat which is good for conditions where parents want to get three auto seats across a back seat.
What I don't like the following:
1. Diono not too long ago changed from the Sunshine Children name after some actually poor publicity around their LATCH connectors coming loose while the seats had been installed. I also heard a ton of horror stories around the negative client help parents received through this. Issues like getting told they were too fat to install the seat and had broken it, parents returning connectors only to have the exact same ones returned to them and becoming told these had been the new fixed ones, becoming lied to by buyer service, and so on.
two. I hate that Diono/Sunshine Kids claims these Super Latch connectors are very good to 80 lbs. To be secure, both the LATCH connector and the vehicle LATCH need to have to be rated to the greater weight and, at the moment, there are no vehicles in the US rated more than 48 lbs. So, this is particularly misleading and potentially harmful data.

 

Diono RadianR120 Convertible Car Seat