Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
Monday, February 20, 2012 by admin
Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
The BRITAX MARATHON 70 Convertible Car Seat achieves optimum head safety through the combination of BRITAX SafeCell Technology, integrated steel bars, and a Versa-Tether, which work together to minimize head excursion and reduce the risk of head injury during a frontal impact. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) It also features easy installation, Side Impact Protection, and innovative details for your child's comfort and safety. The seat fits children in the rear-facing position weighing from 5 to 40 pounds, and children in the forward-facing position starting at one year old and 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds.
Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
BRITAX 360 Degree Protection
The BRITAX MARATHON 70 features technologies that work to minimize injury to your child during a crash from any direction, including both frontal and side impact crashes - the most frequent types of crashes. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) These technologies work together with other features on the car seat to minimize injury to your child during a crash by:
keeping your child in the vehicle,
diverting crash forces away from your child,
helping to slow down your child's body,
minimizing movement of your child, and
protecting your child's brain and spinal cord.
SafeCell Technology for Advanced Head Safety
Designed with SafeCell Technology, the MARATHON 70 features SafeCells, which are engineered structures located in the base of the seat designed to compress in the event of a crash. This compression significantly lowers the center of gravity and counteracts the forward rotation of the car seat, delivering unprecedented performance in a crash.
Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
The MARATHON 70 also features integrated steel bars, which strengthen the connection to the vehicle seat and reduce the forward flexing of the car seat. In addition, the energy-absorbing Versa-Tether anchors the top of the car seat and minimizes forward rotation of the car seat to reduce the crash forces that can reach your child if an accident occurs. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) These three features work together as a system to provide revolutionary head safety protection for your child.
Side Impact Protection for Added Security
To keep your child safe in the event of a side-impact collision, the MARATHON 70 includes Side Impact Protection. Side Impact Protection is a system composed of a rigid seat shell with deep side walls and energy-absorbing EPP (Expanded Polypropylene) foam lining the seat shell. These combined features work together to protect your child's head and chest from incoming crash forces by distributing the forces over a larger surface area, helping shield your child from vehicle intrusion and contain your child's head and body in the seat.
Premium Fit and Comfort Features
Whether children are watching the world go by or snuggling in for a nap, they'll enjoy that the MARATHON 70 reclines in both the forward and rear positions. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) And thanks to additional features, which include high-density comfort foam and a plush cover set with a matching belly pad, they'll always ride in style and comfort. A 70-pound weight capacity, two buckle positions, and a tangle-free five-point harness with ten harness-height settings provide a snug, custom fit for your growing child. Plus, an optional Infant Positioning Insert (sold separately) allows you to properly and snugly fit smaller infants into the car seat.
Ease-of-Use for Safety and Convenience
Packed with perks for parents, the MARATHON 70 makes it easy to secure your child in the proper position without guesswork. Premium lower LATCH connectors make for a quick, simple, and tight installation, while the push-button allows you to easily uninstall the connectors. Easy-to-access built-in lock-offs allow you to install the car seat with ease using your vehicle's lap and shoulder belt. The quick-adjust harness system and buckle allow you to reposition the harness height without disassembling the harness straps.
Additionally, an anti-slip contoured base grips and protects the vehicle seat, ensuring a tight installation in all types of vehicles. Convenient holders keep harness straps out of the way when you're placing your child in the seat, and the plush cover set with matching pads removes easily for cleaning without requiring you to disassemble or uninstall the car seat.
The BRITAX MARATHON 70 Convertible Car Seat achieves optimum head safety through the combination of BRITAX SafeCell Technology, integrated steel bars, and a Versa-Tether, which work together to minimize head excursion and reduce the risk of head injury during a frontal impact. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) It also features easy installation, Side Impact Protection, and innovative details for your child's comfort and safety. The seat fits children in the rear-facing position weighing from 5 to 40 pounds, and children in the forward-facing position starting at one year old and 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds.
Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
BRITAX 360 Degree Protection
The BRITAX MARATHON 70 features technologies that work to minimize injury to your child during a crash from any direction, including both frontal and side impact crashes - the most frequent types of crashes. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) These technologies work together with other features on the car seat to minimize injury to your child during a crash by:
keeping your child in the vehicle,
diverting crash forces away from your child,
helping to slow down your child's body,
minimizing movement of your child, and
protecting your child's brain and spinal cord.
SafeCell Technology for Advanced Head Safety
Designed with SafeCell Technology, the MARATHON 70 features SafeCells, which are engineered structures located in the base of the seat designed to compress in the event of a crash. This compression significantly lowers the center of gravity and counteracts the forward rotation of the car seat, delivering unprecedented performance in a crash.
Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version)
The MARATHON 70 also features integrated steel bars, which strengthen the connection to the vehicle seat and reduce the forward flexing of the car seat. In addition, the energy-absorbing Versa-Tether anchors the top of the car seat and minimizes forward rotation of the car seat to reduce the crash forces that can reach your child if an accident occurs. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) These three features work together as a system to provide revolutionary head safety protection for your child.
Side Impact Protection for Added Security
To keep your child safe in the event of a side-impact collision, the MARATHON 70 includes Side Impact Protection. Side Impact Protection is a system composed of a rigid seat shell with deep side walls and energy-absorbing EPP (Expanded Polypropylene) foam lining the seat shell. These combined features work together to protect your child's head and chest from incoming crash forces by distributing the forces over a larger surface area, helping shield your child from vehicle intrusion and contain your child's head and body in the seat.
Premium Fit and Comfort Features
Whether children are watching the world go by or snuggling in for a nap, they'll enjoy that the MARATHON 70 reclines in both the forward and rear positions. Britax Marathon 70 Convertible Car Seat (Current Version) And thanks to additional features, which include high-density comfort foam and a plush cover set with a matching belly pad, they'll always ride in style and comfort. A 70-pound weight capacity, two buckle positions, and a tangle-free five-point harness with ten harness-height settings provide a snug, custom fit for your growing child. Plus, an optional Infant Positioning Insert (sold separately) allows you to properly and snugly fit smaller infants into the car seat.
Ease-of-Use for Safety and Convenience
Packed with perks for parents, the MARATHON 70 makes it easy to secure your child in the proper position without guesswork. Premium lower LATCH connectors make for a quick, simple, and tight installation, while the push-button allows you to easily uninstall the connectors. Easy-to-access built-in lock-offs allow you to install the car seat with ease using your vehicle's lap and shoulder belt. The quick-adjust harness system and buckle allow you to reposition the harness height without disassembling the harness straps.
Additionally, an anti-slip contoured base grips and protects the vehicle seat, ensuring a tight installation in all types of vehicles. Convenient holders keep harness straps out of the way when you're placing your child in the seat, and the plush cover set with matching pads removes easily for cleaning without requiring you to disassemble or uninstall the car seat.
There are days when I'm sure all the design engineers working behind the scenes on this item care about is increasing how many times a car can rollover and this car seat still be structurally intact.
Why? Because I commute on a curvy road. Every morning, I bundle my kid into this car seat (which is still rear-facing). When I enter a curve, she is plunged into deep shade, and when I exit the curve, the sun's rays slap her in the face coming through the rear window. Yes, she is wearing a sunhat, but it isn't a pioneer pokebonnet. Poor thing has a difficult time sleeping and no wonder her eyes have to adjust to all the dramatic changes in light level every 30 seconds. Does Britax make some kind of shade attachment for this car seat? Not that I have found. What they are about to release are two translucent gray sunshade panels that stick to the two rear windows. That will TOTALLY not help with the sun coming in through the rear window in backwards facing configuration. Now the recommendations are to leave them backwards-facing as long as possible, so I'm reluctant to flip her around just because she still thinks sunglasses are for chewing on.
As another reviewer mentioned, there are two velcro tabs on the upholstered part of the seat that look as though they are designed to hold the shoulder straps out of the way. Do they? Nope. They are positioned far too low, and are so small that the friction of sliding a toddler past them often dislodges the strap. I have to dig the straps out from underneath her tush, which she does not appreciate. One of tabs came un-stitched and was dangling by a couple of threads. I believe they call that a choking hazard. These tabs provide the ILLUSION of helping to keep the straps out of the way while actually doing no such thing. In addition, they have that single line of cheap stitching all the way around that toddler fingers can TOTALLY do a number on.
Finally, if you intend to take this puppy on an airplane, either shell out the $60 for the Britax cart that allows you to wheel this granitic behemoth of a car seat around the airport, OR have your chiropractic appointment all set up for when you get back. It does say it is FAA approved in tiny print on the label, BUT the generous cut of this car seat means that we could not fit it into her (not so generous) coach airplane seat rear-facing, and that forward-facing, she could totally kick the bejesus out of the seat in front of her. And she was under a year old, maybe 27 inches long.
If you are going to make a sizable investment, consider the other premium brands. Not only did Britax recently get dinged for using a lot of rather toxic flame retardants, but the day to day inconveniences are something of a grinding irritant. If you are the kind of person who rolls your vehicle frequently, then I guess the small things don't matter so much. Now I'm off to Etsy to find an artisan who makes pokebonnets.
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