Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This gets the job done and is safe. Pulling the strap to tighten the harness that holds my kid in the seat is impossible. It's extremely difficult. In fact, pulling Excalibur from a stone would be easier than tightening the strap. Heck, being unworthy and picking up Thor's hammer is easier than tightening the strap. It's so difficult to pull the strap to tighten, you will end up picking up the carseat before it tightens. Literally, you could just haul the kid around by the strap, while they are stil sitting in it, and you would not be tightening it on them. My buddy has the exact same car seat and has the exact same problem. When we're bored and want to challenge each other while at the playground, while watching our kids, we use this car seat strap as our muscle man challenge. Who ever pulls it the most wins. It's been a year and we're tied at 0.0 millimeters. I thought I pulled it at one time but it was merely the passing of a cloud casting a shadow on us - not a tightening of the strap. You might be thinking we're a couple of idiots who cannot figure this out. You might be right, but our wives can't do it either, and we won't stand for you calling them idiots. They gave birth, naturally - without pain killers, to the very children we're trying to keep safe by tightening this strap. For the birth of our second child, I told my wife to pull the strap of this car seat instead of my hand while she was in labor because the strap will not move like my hand would. She was angry at first then reason and logic overcame her. The workaround is to make it an acceptable tightness on the kid so they are safe, then never loosen it to get them out again. I make my son contort his arms and hands so he can escape. I pump him up by telling him about the Amazing Houdini and see this as practice for his career as an escape artist. Buying this carseat will cause moderate to severe "THE STRAP IS SO DIFFICULT TO TIGHTEN"-itis. If that sounds fun, you should definitely get this carseat. Otherwise, I'd look elsewhere.