Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base

by Graco

Product Features

• Stay-in-car adjustable base sold separately
• Allows Graco SnugRide to be adjusted to proper recline
• Convenient extra base for second vehicle
• LATCH equipped for easy installation
• Rear facing only for use with Graco SnugRide Infant car seat

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 17.7 x 24.2 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 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: B00007DWBH
• UPC: 047406052004
• Item model number: 8402L04
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
  • #1 in Baby > Car Seats > Car Seats > Infant
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)

Product Description

Color: Silver

Amazon.com Product Description

Before you had a baby, did you ever imagine that one tiny person would require so much stuff? Help streamline your baby paraphernalia--and give your pocketbook a break--with second Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base for use with your Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat, the rear-facing infant car seat designed for use with babies 5 to 22 pounds in weight, up to 29 inches in height (sold separately).

The Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base (Metallic Silver) offers: Compatible with the Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat. Perfect for use with a second vehicle. Mounts via seat belts or LATCH system. Car seat snaps into place and releases easily with a latch.

An extra car seat base makes moving a baby between two cars very easy. View larger.

Easy-to-Use Convenience
Your SnugRide Infant Car Seat, which comes with its own base, is designed to snap in and out of the Infant Car Seat Base easily. So whether Grandma or a nanny regularly drives baby around, or you have more than one vehicle in your family, you'll find having a second Car Seat Base to be extremely convenient. Rather than taking the time to install and reinstall your car seat every time baby needs a ride in a different vehicle, and rather than shelling out more cash to purchase another expensive car seat to keep in the second car, simply purchase another Car Seat Base to install in the alternate vehicle, so you can quickly, easily snap the Car Seat in place and go.

Designed for Easy Installation
The SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base is easily and securely installed using the vehicles seatbelt system or, if you have a newer-model vehicle, using the LATCH system. The base is specially designed to securely hold the SnugRide Car Seat in place and to adjust it to the proper recline. To use it with your Car Seat, simply lower the seat into the base until it snaps into place; use the Car Seat's latch to release it from the base.

About Graco
In 1942, Russell Gray and Robert Cone formed Graco Metal Products, in Philadelphia, PA. For 11 years, the firm fabricated machine and car parts for local manufacturers. In 1953, Gray left the firm, leaving Cone as sole owner. Cone decided to manufacture his own line of products, but had trouble coming up with ideas. Enter David Saint, an engineer, tinkerer, and stained glass artisan who worked for Graco. Saint, himself a father of nine, was intrigued when an associate told him how his wife would soothe their tired and cranky baby while swinging in a backyard glider swing. Acting on this inspiration, he went to the drawing board and 18 months of hard work later, the world's first wind-up infant swing, the Graco Swyngomatic, was born. Graco sold millions of Swyngomatics in the coming years, becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of juvenile products in the process. Today, Graco is a Newell Rubbermaid company, with 1500 associates worldwide. While a half-century has brought many changes to Graco, their dedication and commitment to designing and manufacturing top-quality products remains, and continues on.

What's In the Box
Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base (Metallic Silver).

Product Description

If you have more than one car, it's so convenient having more than one car seat base. This extra SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base lets your SnugRide Infant Car Seat easily and quickly click in to Dad's or Grandma's vehicle, so you can keep your other base permanently installed in Mom's car. This way, Baby gets more than one chauffer, and you get hassle-free infant transit.

Features:

• Convenient, stay-in-car base only needs to be installed once
• Adjusts to position your SnugRide Infant Car Seat to the proper recline
• Convenient extra base so Baby can easily ride in Dad's and Mom's car, or Grandma's too
• LATCH equipped for easy installation
• Metal and plastic parts may be cleaned with mild soap and water
• Rear-facing only for use with SnugRide Infant Car Seat
• Dimensions: 17.2"W x 23.2"D x 9.8"H
• Weight: 5.4 lbs.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

113 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double Your Infant Seat's Usefulness for a Little Money, June 20, 2005

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D. R. Jeanclerc "Reader, Listener & Obsessive... (Brunswick, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base, Silver (Baby Product)

My wife and I have been long-time fans of our Graco infant seat, so much so that we would have been willing to purchase a second one in order to ensure that either my wife or I would always be ready to get up and go with our son when necessary. However, Graco saved us from having to do that by offering this base alone as an accessory.

Some other reviews have claimed that having an additional base isn't really necessary because LATCH allows you to easily move the base from car-to-car. This sounds reasonable on paper, but breaks down in real life:

* What if one of your cars is older than 2001 and doesn't have LATCH? Ask anyone who's correctly installed a car seat or base via the seatbelt and they'll confirm that it is a physically difficult endeavor. Faced with a choice between regularly undergoing this exertion or else investing in an additional base and then leaving it in place, I'd bet 99% would go for the base (the other 1% apparently enjoy a vigorous workout at the most inopportune times).

* Will you always have the time to switch? When you're commuting or traveling with an infant, time is an even more crucial resource than usual. Plus, any number of other factors (What if you're alone with the baby? What if the weather is severe?) could make the prospect of a guaranteed quick departure well worth the $40 spent on a spare base.

* What about unforseen schedule changes? When our son began going to day care, he had to be brought home early on several occasions because of ailments. Having a base in each car meant that either of us could go get him. So if one of was too tied up at the office, we wouldn't have to stress over begging out of work early during a busy time.

More than a simple convenience, having a base in each of your family's vehicles is an insurance policy against being painted into a corner when getting around town with your little one. Any working parent will especially appreciate not having to stress over "do I have the car with the car seat?" at any given time. We've gotten our money's worth out of this accessory time and time again.

74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Seat--Hints on How to Install, June 2, 2004

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book lover "esahome" (TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base, Silver (Baby Product)

I got the Graco Snugride in Glen Plaid as a baby gift and bought two silver bases to go with it--one for my car (which doesn't have latch) and one for my husband's car (which has latch). His was very easy to install. I had a shoulder belt system in my car and used that with my base. Everything seemed fine, but it seemed as if every time I went over a bump, the carseat would become loose. I couldn't understand, because my seatbelt locks in place. Someone reminded me that the base comes with a locking clip. (If you look, the directions on how to install it are actually in the owner's manual for the car seat (and not in the base's manual)--mine was on page 25). This was the key! Now my base is completely snug.

Also, for people who have trouble with the base tilting--it takes a bit of strength, but if you put your knee in the middle of the base while you thread/tighten the seatbelt, it will stay down--of course, this was a challenge with my bony knees! (I learned from a carseat checkpoint, in order to get the base as snug as possible, don't allow the seatbelt to lock until you have it buckled and the lap part of the belt is snug. Then you can lock the belt and allow it to tighten. You can get it to tighten by pulling down on the shoulder belt part).

This is a very snug seat/base, and my son seems to do very well in it. If you need help, go to a childseat inspection checkpoint (you can go to the NHTSA--National Highway Traffic Safety Administration--site and click on Child Seat Inspections. You can search by zipcode or state).

Hope this information helps!

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helps switching between cars......, August 14, 2004

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C. Knowles "Peanut's Momma" (Camp Pendleton MCB , Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat Base, Silver (Baby Product)

While shopping for our infant seat in BRU a father was in the store and told us how helpful having another base in my husband's car would be...well we received this as a gift and installed it in less than 15 minutes( it took awhile in my husbands car because he does not have latch)and is very secure. No slippage and movement. Placing your knee in the middle helps alot in making sure it is tight, so you may need another person if you are on the petite side. It is so helpful being able to lift her out and change cars if needed without major moving of bases.It took less than 5 minutes putting it in my SUV ( latch) and has not moved in 6 months...now she is outgrowing her Snugride infant seat so we will have to take these out but I would use this system again for our next child! I would give this 4 1/2 stars since putting it in took us a minute but that was nothing once it was in and we knew it was not going anywhere.

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