Moms of 2+; booster?

[veggiemo]

Any combination booster recs from anyone? (a booster that starts as a harness that converts to using a belt) Thinking about the Evenflo Transitions, but wanted to get some other opinions, if possible. Details:

DS1 (3.5) is in an Chicco Nextfit, forward facing, in our main car. I plan to keep him in it for as long as possible. 

In our secondary car, DS1 is forward facing in a Cosco Scenera and has outgrown it. I want to move DS1 into a harnessed booster and put LO into the Cosco, rear facing.

I was gonna put this on the baby gear board but it appears to be pretty slow over there.

[jessila]

I know nothing about this but there was a thread about this in Parenting the other day.

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Apr 10, 2016 5:45:10 GMT -5 jessila said:

I know nothing about this but there was a thread about this in Parenting the other day.

+1. I also thought boosters were for older kids so haven't thought about a booster transition car seat. We just still have DS in a convertible peg perego and LO is in a convertible Chicco

[billyhorrible]

We got the Graco Argos 80 for LBB when we moved BH into his convertible. It's a 3-way so it goes from convertible to harness booster to backless booster.

I liked the ratings it got on Car Seat for Littles, but also it was on super sale on Black Friday. I don't know how big DS1 is, but the Argos 70 is usually cheaper. If the 85 wasn't on sale I would have looked seriously at that since LBB is a little guy and probably will be out of the booster before he hits 80 lbs.

[veggiemo]

@poppyc8 a booster that uses a belt is definitely for older/bigger kids but the 3 in 1s start as a harness, then switch later to use a belt once they are old enough.

billyhorrible thanks, I'll run a comparison on csfl to the Evenflo.

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Apr 10, 2016 15:44:59 GMT -5 veggiemo said:

@poppyc8 a booster that uses a belt is definitely for older/bigger kids but the 3 in 1s start as a harness, then switch later to use a belt once they are old enough.

billyhorrible thanks, I'll run a comparison on csfl to the Evenflo.

Got it.

[wegrowsheep]

Here's what we have, currently: DD in a high-back booster from costco, DS1 in an Evenflo (Symphony? can't remember) convertible using the harness, and DS2 in a Diono R100, rear facing.
We bought an Evenflo convertible when DD was 10 months old, and when DS1 was old enough to use a convertible (also 10 months), I bought DD a new convertible seat because the pink ones were on sale. DS1 got her old one. Then when she moved to a booster after she turned 5, I switched the covers and threw away the original convertible because the styrofoam was falling apart. It would not have lasted as a booster. We did try to use it as a booster, but it took up too much space and the seatbelt wasn't long enough in our truck.
tl;dr: I don't think carseats last as long as we think they will, and high back boosters are comparitively cheap and take up less space..