Best car seat for Toyota 4Runner and RAV4? Or suv?

Hey my mama friends!! I need help! We got a car seat at our baby shower and went to install the bases today; let me tell you they do not feel secure and in my Rav the seat like flips up entirely! Does anyone have a car seat recommendation for these 2 vehicles that you successfully installed? The 4 runner we got it secure enough that if we have to run to the hospital in labor we can but going tomorrow to look around. The seat in the Rav is absolutely useless and scary especially the tighter my husband got the latch belt it just flips up even more. So they are tightly in there. It’s like the latch system should be more in the middle than on the end. I’ll definitely never take her anywhere if we keep this car seat. 😭😭

Going to go down a Google rabbit hole tonight too. I had stopped researching since my family told me not to worry they they were getting a car seat for us.

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You can take it to your local fire department and they will make sure it is installed correctly.

I have a rav4 and we installed the Chicco next fit convertible car seat without issues

yeah that was the plan but it’s definitely installed correctly I just think it’s not compatible with the rav. Like there’s no way this is safe for any baby to flip up Ike that but it’s installed how the other one is with the same instructions? Crazy

thanks! Will look into this! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

omg I think that’s the answer! The one we have had like a really long base and then the latch is at the end so it’s secure right but then the other end sits way off the seat and flips up at the slightest bump like it’s not compatible. In the 4 runner the seat seems long enough to support it and that one is not moving much at all but I’m still not happy with it.
This looks like a smaller base length wise! Will you just carry the baby out of the hospital since this seems like a stationary seat?

girl thank you!!!! Showing this to my husband too! Yeah my plan was always baby wearing or the stroller bc mine has bassinet. My sister god love her said I have to get a car seat that fits onto my stroller and they were going to take care of it so I was gifted this mico cosi and it’s really nice but I don’t need my baby flipping on a slight bump. 😬😭

sorry to be annoying but did you install it with the latches or the car seat belt?

okay thank you again! ❤️❤️

I had a similar problem with mine and i found out that the angle of the car seat wasn’t right. Make sure that your car seat base is angled correctly

is it not supposed to be parallel with the ground like instructions say?

Make sure you’re following instructions for a backwards facing base. What car seat do you currently have?

Reclining mine fixed the issue. I just got mine checked by a professional and it is correct.

we have a maxi cosi mico 30; we have it reclined and level with the ground line per the instructions and videos but the base is still way too long for the rav seat and flies up/flips at the slighest bump 😢

not so much in the 4 runner where it’s installed the same but the seat is longer so it does feel Sturdier and at least doesn’t flip up. We can get to the hospital with that one and be safe but I still am weary of it and for the rav it just seems not compatible. We attempted with loosening it a bit since tighter seemed to make it worse, tried doing seat belt install instead, tried different reclines. Either way it either slid around too much or it flipped up/over because it was too tight so I’m just not sure this one’s it for me. 😭

That’s really weird. I drive a Ford Edge so it’s pretty similar in size to the RAV4. Mine hangs off of the edge too. I would at least go take it in to get checked by someone before you buy a new one!

okay thanks! I’ll have to call Monday

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