Before you can get to installing the hifold booster seat in your car, there is some preliminary set up. The manufacturer advertises 243 unique combinations thanks to the wide variety of adjustments, so it’s helpful to do a preliminary try with your kid before you’re in a high-pressure travel situation. We love our Bubblebum ( full review here) and travel with it all the time for our older child. But we didn’t start using it until he was 6 years old, very mature and rarely slept in the car. Now on to my even tinier child… she’ll be 7 soon but is only around 45″ and 45 pounds. She’s small for her age but still well within range for the mifold, which now starts at 40lbs and 40″. We’ve had a hard time getting a good fit for her in a few boosters because she has a short torso – she could still fit in plenty of convertible car seats but is mature enough to handle a booster seat. As long as a booster seat fits her properly, it’s an extremely safe choice for her age, size and developmental level. I truly applaud Carfoldio for pushing the envelope on booster seat design. As kids get older and travel and carpool more frequently, it’s handy to have ultra-compact options that keep them safe.

Things you need to know about the Mifold Comfort Grab and Go Booster seat Features of Mifold Car Booster Seat If possible, try to buy your car seat from a retailer with a fitting service and trained fitters. You may be able to phone up and make an appointment. The store should also be able to take the seat out to your car after you've bought it and fit it properly there. Our guide on how to fit a baby or child car seat has more details. I'm looking and it seems that there is an exception in Italy for taxis, so actually it should not matter what the type of car seat is as I believe he may not actually legally need one at all. Some car seats have a mechanism to stop them being turned forward-facing too early, but others don't. If there is no way to stop the seat being turned to face forwards too early, it lost marks in our tests because of the potential for misuse.Once you have the widths set, place the hifold on the car seat and thread the shoulder belt through the built-in belt guide. That’s the only real step to hifold installation! Lie-flat or carrycot car seats can be a good solution for newborns, especially premature babies or those with medical conditions, who need to be transported lying flat. Our advice would be to look out for a modular system – one that uses a base which is also compatible with a rear-facing baby car seat and then a rear-facing toddler seat. Fitting advice for carrycot car seats Models we've tested include the Maxi-Cosi Jade + 3wayFix, Joie i-Level, Jane iMatrix + iPlatform and Britax Romer Baby-Safe2 i-Size. At the very least, you’ll want to know the correct width settings for your kid, which is easy enough. My petite 5.5 year old needed the narrowest widths for everything and my small 8.5 year old was on the medium widths for the seat and torso, but narrowest for the headrest.

Make a note of your child's weight and height, as this will determine what seat you’ll need to buy. Record the weight in imperial and metric units – people often use pounds and ounces, but car seats are approved for weight groups in kg. Noting down your child's weight in both units will prevent mistakes when converting from one to another. Measure their height in centimetres. It’s also critical that your child achieve a safe seatbelt fit in any booster seat she’s going to use – more on that later in this mifold review.The crash test rating is not good; the side impact protection is basically nothing at all (more of a problem for this age group which is why it gets a worse score) and they rate it with a high risk of making an error while using, which is a problem, because if it's not fitted correctly then it's likely to perform worse even than this already not-great score.

First, unwind the shoulder belt adjuster strap that’s used to keep mifold folded. That will allow mifold to flop open as it needs to be for your child to sit on it. Hifold is pretty similar to mifold. Both products are broadly known as booster seats and are both suitable for children 4-12 years of age. Here's a short comparison between the two products: DEAL ALERT! Save 15% on hifold with exclusive coupon VOYAGE15 Final thoughts of my mifold booster seat review When it’s unfolded it can shrink and expand every which way to fit a huge size range of kids – hence, the “hifold fit-and-fold” name. I’ve written a pretty comprehensive guide to common questions about car seats and air travel. But sometimes you can solve some of those problems simply by investing in the right travel gear in the first place. Quite a few new car seat and booster products have come onto the market the last few years. Products are more compact and designs are more innovative. Taking a car seat on a plane and being able to use it at your destination grows ever easier. It’s about time!It's been tested twice as two separate models. The crash test of the original model was downgraded because the top tether hook touched the head of the dummy and they felt this was a risk; the actual performance was 1 point better - 2.3 for frontal, which is a very good score in this category. As you can see, the performance is even better in the newer model. 1.9 for a harnessed seat is fantastic.