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Originally Posted by 68style
Fuck you gotta replace a car seat nowadays if you even look at it the wrong way, shit's ridiculous.
We went from no seatbelts in the backseat at all to "My child will most certainly perish if the plastic is more than 5 years old"
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Originally Posted by 68style
That doesn’t explain the 5 years with no hits tho…
It’s a ridiculous belief system no matter how you slice it, propagated very happily by car seat manufacturers.
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I think when it's the parents choice to not strap the kid in (or at least no sets existed) then the blame is on the parents or it's written off as "that's life" whereas if the kid dies because your car seat failed then they blame the manufacturer.
There's probably few things worse for a company than being known as being baby killers (that's worse than killing puppies I think) and combined with how parents exercise so much caution with their children now I think it's understandable that car seat makers won't take any risks with this stuff (and probably take advantage of the situation to some extent).
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Gone: 2007 Acura TSX, 2008 Mazda 3 GT, 2003 Mazda Miata LS, 2008 Mazda Miata GT PRHT, 2003 Mazda Protege 5
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