Actual letter sent to Evenflo
Dear Evenflo,
We have your “Triumph” car seat for my daughter. Before I purchased said car seat, I did quite a bit of research first. Your seat had some of the best safety ratings of any other seat. This is very important to me, as you can imagine. I also noticed that the “Triumph” was well-padded and comfortable looking. This is important to my daughter, and therefore important to me.
However, I am asking myself why in the hell you would design a car seat that requires EIGHT screws to be unscrewed before the fabric cover can removed. Did you realize that you were designing a car seat for small children who frequently do Very Messy Things in their car seats? For instance, vomit. Did you stop to think that when a parent is faced with a child who is Very Sick and covered in vomit, the last thing they want to do is unscrew EIGHT screws in order to wash the car seat cover? Did you ever think that this act may push a parent over the edge they had been teetering on all day? That perhaps this car seat full of vomit was the most recent in a long line of things that she had been cleaning vomit off of that day?
Let’s not even talk about the fact that the straps CANNOT be removed AT ALL. Or the fact that I had to use my garden hose in order to clean vomit out of the straps because of this design flaw. It’s almost enough to make me purchase a new car seat from a competitor.
Sincerely,
Erica
One of the most common searches leading to my blog is “removing Evenflo Triumph seat cover.” It is A BITCH. The next time one of my children barfs on that car seat, I’m throwing it away and buying another brand. AFTER consulting the manual to find out if the cover can be removed. I even determined that I WOULD remove it—and then COULDN’T GET THE SCREWS TO UNSCREW.
That last sentence should be after “It is a BITCH”—not at the end like that.
What’s up with Maddy? I hope the Vomit Comet leaves your house soon! (& I do remember Swistle talking about that same issue long ago)
Swistle - Seriously, they should advertise the cover removal guide on the outside of the box. If I had know, I would NOT have bought it. I actually used my husband’s drill to remove the screws this afternoon because I could not bear the thought of having to unscrew and then screw them all back in.
Shelly - No clue what’s wrong. She woke up and threw up all her morning milk and started running a fever. She can’t keep anything down at all except small amounts of Pedialyte. Too much of that and she hurls. I talked to my best friend who’s in her last year of med school and she gave me some advice since this is the first time Maddie’s been sick like this. It’s HORRIBLE.
Yeck, honey! After entering into parenthood, sometimes I now wonder who has it worse when a kid is sick - the kid ot the parent. Here’s wishing the barf train to pull out of the station ASAP!
I’m so sorry about all this barfing. The carseat cover issue is just adding insult to injury. Suckage!
Ugh. On all counts.
Oh boy, that is no good! I will not buy that carseat. Wait…that may be what we have in Matt’s truck. I can’t remember, but I know I love the carseat in my car. I’ve never had to remove the cover, but I do know how it comes off and it’s easy-peasy.
Too funny, I LOVE IT!