Customer Reviews

SafeFit Car Seat Grabber in Gray

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I own this particular item. I bought it because my car has leather seats and my son's Century Breverra booster seat would not stay put. I have found it corrected the problem and is very useful. I recently bought another one for my newborns convertible car seat. It also help to keep the seats nice and clean.

This seat cover is a great idea if it were only big enough! I doesn't cover enough of the seat to protect it. It in my opinion needs to go higher up on the seat. I would also caution parents about thinking that there car seat is in tight enough because of the grippers. make sure even when using this that your car seat moves no more that 1" AT THE MOST in ANY direction! I would also recomend the Sunshine Kids Mighty Tite to all. It is a wonderful and easy to use product that will keep your car seat from budging even and inch!

We bought this to put under my 4 year olds car seat. This mat does not stay put. It keeps sliding down. I bought a graco one to go under my 1 year olds car seat and it was much cheaper and works great. If I would have saved the packaging, I would have retuned this and get another graco one instead.

I have had this in my cloth seat for my son's booster for about 1 year now. I bought it when I bought the booster. I have saved my interior from MANY spills, and lots of wet feet due to our climate. Overall, I am VERY pleased w/ this protector. I now have twins coming and am registering for 2 more to go into my new vehicle (w/ leather seats). It could be a little longer but, it still gets the job done well. As for color-whatever!

I went to the CHP office to get my car seat checked, and the officer said that car seat protection mats are not approved and considered a major safety hazard because it causes the car seat to become loose. If you use these mats, the car seat will not be installed tightly enough and can be a real danger during automobile accidents. DON'T BUY!!

This car seat grabber seems to have fixed our slippery car seat problem on our new leather seats. The only thing is that it doesn't go up high enough on the back, so the back part really serves no purpose. We have the Evenflo Triumph car seat. It has a top tether, so it's not a big deal.

This product works Great with my 4yr olds new car seat!! I have leather in my van and its works with those marks it usally laeves! But.... with my 6 yr olds car seat which is the Alpha Omega Purchased back in 2000 this grabber is not high enough to protect the seat all the way up! my sugestion is to make it longer! but all in all its a great product for the cost!!

I'm happy so far with this car seat mat. I have the 2007 version, which is shaped slightly different from the one in the picture (I believe that SafeFit had to change the size so that the mat wouldn't interfere with seats employing LATCH). As for the mat's thinness, I consider a thin mat a bonus. A thicker mat, in my opinion, is more likely to influence installation and performance (a sentiment that others here seem to share). My only purpose is to keep the plastic base of our infant seat from directly contacting our car's cloth seats--a job that this mat does well. The stickiness of the mat (think Yoga mat) also helps the car seat stay in place a bit better (the plastic on the bottom of our infant seat is very smooth). My only criticism is that if you are using a rear-facing seat you will have to fold the top portion over so that it doesn't flip onto your baby's legs (I had to figure this out myself because the mat doesn't come with instructions). I have to add that this mat costs several dollars less than the Prince Lionheart mat that everyone seems to like so much.

UPDATE (March 2010): I stopped using car seat mats based on a recommendation from a car seat tech. Apparently, they can grip the car seat so well that the installer is fooled into thinking that the seat is installed tighter than it actually is. In an accident, the mat will not stabilize the seat.

after getting a new car with leather seats, we were worried that the carseat would dent and eventually rip the seats. obviously the car seat will be installed for a few years, same spot, in the heat and cold, etc...

as for the product, the material is similar to the drawer/cabinet liners you use in the kitchen and they are just slighly thicker. i'm sure car seat experts would say never to install these mats. after leaving the hospital with my first, they said never to have the window shades or rear-facing mirrors [find me a car that doesn't use those!]. after installing the car seat on the mat, i can say that my car seat isn't going anywhere in a crash. after installing it correctly the mat is dented in due to how tight the car seat has to be, so don't expect it to lay flat like in the picture on the box.

overall, it serves the purpose we bought it for. 4 stars because it doesn't stay up on it's own and it doesn't reach the top of the seat.

I really like my Car Seat Grabber!!! It protects the cloth seats from overturned sippy cups (that supposedly don't leak, but occasionaly do!) and cracker crumbs and such. It also prevents those annoying indentations in the vehicle cloth/leather seat once the car seat is removed!

I only gave it four stars because there was one downside (for me) that my car seat is taller than the Car Seat Grabber, so there are a couple of little marks on the vehicle seat back where the car seat rubs. Although, no product is perfect for every situation!

I think it is absolutely worth the money!