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Evenflo Triumph Advance LX Convertible Car Seat - Harbortown | 
| Brand: Evenflo
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $139.99
Buy New: $132.54(as of 3/12/10 10:43 PST - Details)
You Save: $7.45 (5%)
Rating:  191 reviews
Sales Rank: 327
Color: Harbortown
Shipping Weight (lbs): 21
Dimensions (in): 17 x 20 x 29.5
MPN: 3801837
Model: 3801837
UPC: 032884146147
EAN: 0032884146147
ASIN: B000YZD0QM
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Infiniteslide harness adjustment | | • | Tensionright harness adjustment | | • | Multi-position recline | | • | Removable body pillows | | • | Removable, flip-down cup holder |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Keep your child safe and secure in the car with the Triumph Advance LX, Harbortown from Evenflo. Designed for children two to 35 pounds in rear facing, and 20 to 50 pounds and up to 50 inches tall in forward facing, this convertible car seat allows your child to stay in a 5-point harness over a year longer than traditional car seats with a 40-pound rating, which helps keep your child safer as he grows.  | The Evenflo Triumph Advance LX car seat offers: - Forty-pound rating.
- Easy harness adjustment thanks to InfiniteSlide system.
- Multi-position recline for extra comfort and flexibility.
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The InfiniteSlide harness lets you easily adjust the harness. | Infinite Slide Harness Adjustment
The Harbortown meets or exceeds all U.S. safety standards, making it a smart, reliable choice. One of its key safety features is the InfiniteSlide harness system which allows you to change the harness height by simply sliding the red tabs up and down. This system also does not require re-threading, saving you time and decreasing the chance of improper positioning. Additionally, the 5-point harness easily tightens with a quick turn on the TensionRight knobs on each side of the seat. Proper Positioning for a Safe, Comfortable Ride
Proper positioning of your child in the car seat is extremely important, not only for his or her comfort, but also to ensure optimum safety and protection. That's why the Harbortown has a multi-position recline and removable body pillows to surround baby in soft support. Two buckle straps accommodate growing children by being easy to adjust, and the EPP foam liner helps absorb energy to maintain proper positioning in the case of sudden or jarring movement. There's even a removable, flip-down cup holder to hold your child's favorite drink in a convenient location that they can easily access. This holder also folds out of the way when not in use. The Harbortown also offers perks for parents, including a machine washable pad that's a snap to remove and clean. Easy to install and adjust, the Harbortown features a parent-friendly design that's durable, reliable and, most importantly, safe. About Evenflo
For over 85 years, Evenflo has been a worldwide leader in the development of innovative infant equipment and is now one of the nation's leading manufacturers of high quality baby care and juvenile products. Evenflo began as a company that solely distributed baby care products. They have now expanded to manufacturing products, like car seats, strollers, high chairs, play yards and activity centers, that meet all the needs of children from birth to the pre-school years.
Product Description
Evenflo Triumph Advance Convertible Car Seat accommodates infants rear facing from 5-35 lbs. and forward facing 20-50 lbs. Features: - Infinite Slide Harness adjustment system
- Removable body and infant head support pillows
- Multi-position ReclineRight base
- TensionRight knob tightens harness easily from the side
- EPP, energy absorbing foam liner
- Fold-down cup holder for easy access to drinks and folds out of the way when not in use
- Removable, washable pads
- 2 buckle strap positions accommodate growing child
- Meets or exceeds all applicable U.S. safety standards
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| Customer Reviews: Read 186 more reviews...
 Good Car Seat for the TALL Infant in a Small Car March 12, 2010
W. Edwards (Spokane, WA)
Our daughter is tall - at only 8 months, she's 20 lbs. and 28 inches - tall enough to have outgrown her Graco Snugride (which was great). We wanted to buy the Graco Matrix, but laws in our state require that a baby be BOTH over 20 lbs. AND 12 months old before going forward facing. Trying to keep baby safe (and ourselves legal) we went with this seat as it allows her to rear face - for now. We read a lot of these reviews before buying the seat. A few notes:
PROS:
* This seat is really nice and solidly made on the whole.
* It's very easy to get the cover off. I like that it is not mesh (which can be harder to wipe poop or vomit out of in emergency clean-up operations) but a solid fabric and is all one piece and has minimal fussy pockets and such on it. That's a plus over the Matrix in my book.
* While the central chest clip seems a bit heftier and harder to snap open than a Graco clip, the knobs and switches to tighten and loosen the straps are genius. Wish they had that on the Graco Snugride! I like that better than the pull-tab strap on most other models (Gracos) as it keeps that strap out of the way.
*Room to grow into - our girl is tall, and this holds her well. She seems to prefer the more chair-like feel than the bassinet feel of the baby car seat.
*Soft fabric in a nice, neutral color. Our blends in with the car. It's mere aesthetics, but nice.
*The red tabs at the top of the straps give you a clean indication of where the shoulders should be. I did NOT find these bit into baby's neck. In fact, those tabs should be down behind baby's shoulders a little, not at either side of her neck. I read those reviews and can only figure they have baby down BELOW where the tabs go in, which means the straps are too tall for baby and should be lowered a notch. Not a problem if they're set up right.
*we like the overall construction - took the cover off and it looked pretty solid. sits well in the car, too, once we figured out the manual and got the thing strapped down to the LATCH system.
*Fits into a small car rear facing - HUGE! We are in a 2-door VW Rabbit. The fact that the seat actually can rear face behind the driver's seat is amazing - we've got long legs, too, and the whole of our tall family can fit in the car.
Cons?
*Rear-facing, our tall baby's feet are only 1 inch from the back seat. She will soon have her feet bumping up against that backseat. I just hope she reaches 12 months first so we can turn her around.
*Baby's head does loll forward when she sleeps in this seat. That may be because she's rear-facing. However, short of putting baby into partial recline, that's likely to happen in any car seat.
*Knobs/switches for adjusting straps don't work so well in the rear-facing position. There they are smooshed up against the back seat and it's hard to reach them. This is annoying, but hopefully we'll be forward facing soon.
*The Cup holder is a joke. So flimsy I'm taking it off. I liked the cup holder for the Matrix, but in practice I think a cup holder is probably just a place for dirt and goo to build up. I don't trust my infant with a beverage in the car anyhow.
* Squeaks. The underlying Styrofoam core of the car seat makes squeaky noises when you jostle the seat. It's a small thing, but my husband commented that seat sounded like a cheap beer cooler and that made him a little nervous.
Summary: In a small 2-door car, carseats are tricky. It was nice (But heavy) to be able to pull the GracoSnugride in and out. Rear-facing, this is a decent seat and it fits, but baby is soon to have her feet running out of room, the knobs that adjust the straps are hard to reach, and it's a TOTAL pain to get baby in and out (you have to climb into the car to unhook the kid, then haul her out. But that's a 2-door problem). Forward-facing will get rid of a lot of those challenges.
In short, this is a good car seat over all, and the only choice we found would work for our small car and tall, under-forward-facing-age daughter. Price was decent.
 Love this seat February 23, 2010
Jay's mom
Bought one for each car. Love this seat. DS is a big guy, and he fits comfortably in this seat. He is now 14 mos and we are going to turn him around and FF. Would recommend.
Very pleased February 12, 2010
Music makes me Happy (Wakefield, MA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased this to use in our mini van for our two year old granddaughter. She likes it, it seems to work well and it appears to be safe. Happy with the product and the ease of ordering and quick delivery. Now she can "go for a ride in Grammy's car" and we do not have to borrow her mom's. Hope to get many years of use from it as we just had 2 more grandchildren since Christmas!
Great Buy!! February 8, 2010
Asha Brown (Fort Worth, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this seat because I was looking for an inexpensive but safe seat. During my search I saw a mom putting her two children into this seat and had to ask her how she felt. She said she loved hers and her children did too and I completely agree. My 11 month old loves that the seat sits high enough that she can see out of the window. The seat looks well made and after having it for several months now I have not had any issues with it. The straps do get twisted easily but are not hard to adjust. This seat has an easy great recline to it and the straps also adjust with ease!! After having one for my car for only a month I purchased an identical seat for my husbands car because they were so affordable (amazon had the best price!!)) Very happy with my purchases!!
Quality Car Seat that's Made in the USA (Ohio) February 8, 2010
Cedar
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Evenflo Triumph Advance in my opinion is one of the best convertible car seats available right now. The construction is top-notch (Britax is not the only game in town for picky parents anymore), it's easy to install correctly, and I love how easy it is to adjust every facet of the harness (you tighten the harness with knobs, the shoulder height adjusts by sliding the straps up or down, and the crotch strap easily shifts to one of two positions). My son seems just as comfortable in the Evenflo as he does in his other seat--a Britax Roundabout. The Evenflo is definitely more roomy, which I can see that he likes. I am especially pleased with the placement of the two crotch strap positions. They are perfectly placed--not too shallow and not too deep. We are, by the way, very happy with our two Roundabouts. We needed another set of convertibles because our daughter will outgrow her infant carrier--a 2006 Combi Connection--in a few months. So she will take the Roundabouts (rear-facing up to 35lbs) and our son will be in the Evenflos (we regularly drive two cars). We didn't purchase another set of Roundabouts because they only go up to 40lbs/40 inches and are, well, expensive.
If you are considering the Triumph Advance, you are probably also considering the Graco Nautilus and the Britax Marathon. I think those are great seats too. You just have to see what works for you. I skipped the Marathon because of price and skipped the Nautilus because it's made in China, cannot rear-face at all, is priced too high in my opinion, and lacks the awesome harness adjustability of the Triumph Advance (the 65lbs harness is awesome but the Nautilus only gives you two additional inches for height than the Triumph Advance--50 inches v. 52 inches (most kids outgrow seats by height not by weight)). Other seats you might consider: Safety 1st Complete Air (a great but pricey extended rear-facing seat); Graco My Ride 65 (a favorite of car seat aficionados and rear-faces to 40lbs); Sunshine Kids Radian 65 (recommended by a lot of car seat techs); Britax Frontier (hugely popular harness-to-booster seat (no rear-facing)); and The First Years True Fit (high ratings by NHTSA and very popular with parents).
Rear-facing is truly the safest position for your child. In the event of a high-impact collision from the front or rear, a rear-facing seat will stop your child's head from traveling and allow it to "ramp up" the seat back, minimizing the chance of what is called an internal decapitation (the spinal cord gets stretched to the point of separating from the skull). In contrast, in the forward-facing position the car seat back does not absorb nearly as much of the crash force, which leads to the child's head traveling further and at a higher velocity. This increases the risk of severe spinal cord damage for kids under 4 because their bones are not yet ossified. You Tube features several videos showing how crash forces effect kids differently in the forward-facing position. Because of its tall shell, you will probably actually be able to use the Triumph Advance rear-facing until your child hits the 35lb limit (unlike the Roundabout, which most children outgrow by height long before hitting the 35lb rear-facing limit).
Finally, car seats "expire." Most expire at the 5-6 year mark. The Triumph Advance in contrast expires at the 8 year mark. Car seats are largely plastic after all and years of hot summers and cold winters in an automobile will take a toll. And so will time spent in a warehouse. That's why the date of manufacture is one of the first things I check when I buy a car seat.
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