Ickle Bubba Solar ISOFIX Car Seat | Group 1-2-3 from 9kg to 36kg | Magnetic Buckle Closure, Top Tether | Reclining Car Seat | Dark Grey

I've ordered this car seat for my daughter, who has grown out of the smaller 0+ seat and is not yet ready for the big one and I must say she could very well sit in this one due to additional padding and reclining.What I loved about this car seat is:1 - Great quality material, breathable, non sticky and you can't see dirt / dust on it (have dark grey colour)2 - Additional side padding, protecting baby from the side accidents3 - Easy Reclining to 3 positions, you just pull the lever at the bottom, as easy as that4 - ISOFIX - it is one of not so many car seats up to 36 kgs, which actually uses ISOFIX, one of the safest systems5 - Magnetic strap holders on sides - so easy and nice to keep straps away when necessaryI simply loved this seat, it is very comfortable, not that difficult to install and use and the most important, one of the safest on the market. I'd highly recommend it!

I write this review based on my decades of experiences as a consumer, raising a family and now a grandfather.BLOODY AWFUL AND USELESS INSTRUCTION BOOKLET.I have used a mixture of seats such as this over the years so have experiences of use and installations.I bought a pair of these. They were delivered promptly in remarkably suitable packaging.The iso loc system has been around for a good while now but the cost has remained very much higher than seat belt restrained models so what do you get for the money.Answer, with this seat is an additional two points of anchoring the chair.1/ Remove the isoloc “grab” “claw” cover at the rear base of the baby seat which is a piece of black plastic that pulls off. (KEEP IT TO PROTECT THE GRABS CLAW WHEN NOT IN USE)2/ Raise the rear head rest that will be behind the baby seat by 2”. It can be lowered again once installation completed.Open the small compartment on the rear of the baby seat, pull out the seat belt type item and make it another 2-2.5 feet long. Make sure it does not get trapped behind the baby seat.3/ Line the seat up under the isoloc point buttons.Small button sized discs fitted unto the vehicles rear seats upright.4/ Push the baby chair inward so that you end with rear baby seat and vehicle rear seat back upright are next to one another.5/ Try to pull the baby seat away from its position.6/ If the isoloc grabs have both taken hold the baby seat will not move forward.7/ Feed the belt that you have released from the rear of the baby seat through the gap caused by raising the head rest, as above.6/. Looking at the rear of the rear vehicle upright from the boot side you will see an anchor point about half the height of the upright and central of the isoloc points. Middle of the baby seat.7. The belt type item you took from the rear of the baby seat will be dangling downward from about the middle of the headrest and in line with the above mentioned anchor point.8/ The belt from the baby seat, made of seat belt type material ends in a spring hook.9/ Attach the hook to the anchor point then tighten the belt until held firmly with tension10/ Tuck the tail away as suits. I use elastic bands.11/ Back to inside the car and put the chair in the lie back position by using the adjustment bar just under the front edge of the baby seat. There are three positions. Upright, laying flatter and the third is between the two.12/. That provides a good gap through which the car seat belt can pass to anchor in its normal click in point.13/ The instructions for the chair were good to this point. Unfortunately. 😡thus the loss of a star they are absolutely useless in giving instructions as to how to remove the baby seat padding enabling stage two.Still not worked it out.The baby seat is very padded. The baby seat restraints are a bit fiddly, very awkward at first. It will be a lot harder with a wriggling or uncooperative youngster.Fortunately my 3 year old granddaughter is cooperative and bright. She climbs in and fixes the anchor herself.She squeezes into the unaltered Baby seat at stage one.Grandson, not yet a year old but a big lad fits comfortably in the stage one.OVERALL the main gripe I have is with the awful conversion instructions for the different stages.The baby seat appears to be well made with lots of padding, well finished stitching and such like. As to wear and tear, too early to say but if treated properly I seen no reason as to why this mode should not give good service for years

Very comfortable and sturdy for child and grows with them - reason we bought it. As for installing and removing things as they grow, wish we had got a car seat without isofix. We only remove it when absolutely necessary as a nightmare to remove from car and put back again every time we have to take it out. Can't remove the isofix and have grown to dislike this product.

The seller was brilliant over this - because I had to return it, through no fault of theirs (simply didn't fit against the back of the rear seat of my car - 3-4 inch gap at the top, which I simply couldn't correct.) It comes in a bespoke-shaped box, well packaged and is easy to install (those who say it isn't are clearly just NOT reading the instructions - which are 'hidden' in a little compartment at the rear of the seat!). It felt REALLY padded and comfortable and the straps were fully adjustable and easy to use. There is not much evidence of 'renowned' safety testing on this - and for constant use, I might have been more reluctant to just 'trust' the seller's own recommendations (this brand isn't widely recognised at all) but I really only wanted it for very occasional, country lane use for a grandchild and I was really sorry not to be able to keep this to use for my grandson, but safety concerns over the fact that I couldn't get it to 'sit' properly against the base and back of my seat (I could achieve one or the other, but not both simultaneously!) and, therefore, had a considerable amount of forward/backward movement for the head area of the seat, meant that it would have been unsafe to use. If the seat FITS your car, it looks brilliant (and VERY reasonably priced!) but that's the catch - and you simply won't know unless you try, I guess. The seller is to be highly recommended though - and understood my concerns completely; return of the item was at THEIR expense, even though this issue wasn't exactly their fault! Thank you IckleBubba.