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Sale on Britax Car Seats

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I hadn’t heard of  Britax carseats when my older children were babies, but thankfully learned about them with my third child. I absolutely LOVE my Britax Marathon, and starting today, Britax Car Seats are on Sale at the Right Start. (And if you use the coupon below, you can get $5 off your purchase of $50 or more, which adds to your savings).

Britax car seats are expensive, and sales are hard to find, but let me tell you why I think they’re worth it. This car seat has one of the highest safety ratings, as well as a patented side-impact system.  Plus, it has a cool,easy to use latch system that makes installation a “snap,”, a unique tether system that makes it seem more stable and secure and some very handy velcro strips that keep those pesky straps out of the way when you’re trying to put the child in the seat. 

I paid $219 for my Britax  when I bought it two years ago (one model is on sale at the Right Start for $199 starting today) , and I loved it so much that I bought one for my husband’s car a few months later.    Here are some photos of one of my Britax car seats and the features I love:

  

The car seat is VERY easy to install because of its unique clip system. Plus, it has a tether that is attached to the top of the seat and clips into the hardware built into floor of your  car or minivan, which stabilizes the seat in a way that I was NEVER able to achieve just using the lap belt on other car seat models.  It is rather large, so I had to move the seat’s position in my old van to behind the passenger seat so that my husband could still drive without his knees being on the dash.  But that was in my a Kia Sedona — we don’t have this issue in our Honda Odyssey.

My new seat installed This is the Marathon in the rear facing position.

 

Latch system hanging from side This is the latch system I was talking about — you don’t have use the lap belt to install the seat because these latches clip right onto the hardware built into the seat of the car (assuming you have a model that wasn’t built in the 1980s.) 
Cool velcro strips keep straps out of the way while you place baby in seat These are the helfpul velcro strips that keep the straps out of the way while you place the child in seat.

 

See the tether -- it attaches to the base of the seat in front of it. Here is the tether that attaches to the floor of the car or minivan, stabilizing the seat in both the rear and forward-facing position.  
If you’re sold on these seats and want to buy one for your child today, use the button below and save an additional $5 off the sale price.

Right Start $5 Off

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