Seats in the ADAC test

Munich, October 23, 2014

Cheap Seats can be found en masse and well advertised on the Internet. Whether seats under 70 Euro are actually safe, the German automobile club ADAC and Stiftung Warentest tested on a sample basis. To the test ten different child seats came from all weight classes in the criteria of safety, operation and ergonomics, pollutant content as well as cleaning and processing. The front crash was simulated at 64 km / h side impact at 50 km / h. In 2005, the club had last checked cheap car seats.

60 percent "poor ", even " good"

Six of the ten reviewed products receive the ADAC judgment "poor". With three seats, the backrests tore during the crash test, the straps broke out of the holder or the pollution was very high. In general, the levels of pollutants were higher than in the tests of previous years. The infant car seat Nania Beone SP is the only one with an overall grade of " good" Reviewed Product tests. It is very easy and persuading their crash - values ​​.

Broken seat

The situation is different in the other weight classes: When seat Nania Safety Paris SP for children up to 18 kg, the seat broke a frontal impact ?? the child would be exposed thrown forward in an accident.

Risk of injury in frontal and side impact

For children from 9 to 36 kg there are two products with a grade of " satisfactory": The Nania Racer SP and the Fisher Price FP3000 are thus not recommended. " Poor " in this class are the Tiggo Bebehut and the United - Alpha Deluxe Kids who have a high risk of injury in frontal and side impact result.

Renamed without technical change

It is also worrying that the United-Kids Alpha Deluxe was formerly sold under the name IWH Trade Vario Max Max and this is already failed the child seat test 2008 with "poor". He was only renamed, without being technically changed.

high pollution

In the class for children between 15 and 36 kilograms, it is with the Fisher Price FP4000 a satisfactory fit as well as with the Nania Starter SP a product that has failed due to a high contamination with "poor".

inaccurate descriptions

Has also shown that the descriptions on the Internet are often imprecise: Some seats that can be used for several years, the backrest must be removed, for example by older children ?? side impact younger passengers are no longer adequately protected.

No part of the approval

Even when child safety seats that meet the statutory approval ECE - R44, a safe driving the kids is not necessarily guaranteed. The reason: The side impact is not part of the approval process.

Good advice is not expensive

The ADAC recommends caution for seats in the lower price segment, offered no advice on the Internet. Parents should consider consumer protection tests consulted to find cheap and safe models at the same time. Often also a predecessor of the higher quality products is a cheap and good alternative. (ml)

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