The structure that anchors the seat’s top tether broke in our tests, enabling the top tether strap to extend. The maximum weight limit for using the harness with the Britax Frontier ClickTight is 90 pounds it is 70 pounds for the Pioneer.Īccording to a statement from the company, “The Britax Harness-2-Boosters tested by Consumer Reports are safe when used as intended and in accordance with the instructions and warnings contained in the user guides.” Britax also said the company would “continue to stay engaged with Consumer Reports to benefit from their perspective.” The seats did not exhibit any structural issues in tests with a 35-pound dummy that simulates an average 3-year-old. In two tests for the Britax Pioneer with a 62-pound dummy that simulates a heavy 6-year-old and in two tests (one with each model) with a 52-pound dummy that simulates an average 6-year-old, the structure that supports the headrest and harness broke, but the harness did not pull through.
The harness support hardware at the rear of the seat’s shell in the child’s shoulder area broke in our tests.įor the Britax Frontier ClickTight, the structural damage was severe enough that the harness “pulled through” the seat completely, allowing the harness to loosen in one test conducted with a 78-pound dummy, which simulates an average 10-year-old child.
Consumer Reports knows of no injuries related to the structural failures revealed in our crash tests.īritax Frontier ClickTight, Britax Pioneer In real-world crashes that are as bad-or worse-as the ones simulated in our tests, these structural failures would increase the risk that a child’s head could come into contact with some part of the vehicle’s interior, or that the child might even be ejected from the car seat. In CR’s crash evaluations, testers found that the load-bearing components at the rear of the seats broke when tested with dummies whose weight was near the seat’s limits for its harness system. They are initially used forward facing with a five-point harness system to restrain the child, and after he outgrows the harness, he transitions to using the seat in booster mode with the vehicle’s seat belts to restrain him. Toddler-booster seats are typically used for kids who have outgrown the height or weight limits of their rear-facing seat until they are big enough to use the vehicle belts alone. All five of these seats score a “Basic” for crash protection. Seats are evaluated for their crash protection on a scale of Basic, Better, and Best. The organization has put several types of seats through this new test- infant, convertible, all-in-ones, and boosters-and toddler-booster seats are the final category.
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