Reviews for RECARO Como convertible car seat

After using Britax seats for 8 years, we decided to try Recaro. The Como is very well-made and the materials rival Britax in quality. For a child with wide shoulders, there is no way this seat will last to 70lbs, as the shoulder area near the top of the seat is quite narrow. The straps also twist A LOT- they remind me of the cheap Dorel and Evenflo seats. That is definately a drawback that we don't have with our Britax convertible seats. For this price, I am disappointed that the seat does not tether rear facing. All in all, I'd say it's a very nice seat, but I don't think I'd recommend it over the Britax Marathon or Boulevard.

We received our seat in record time and it is wonderful. My 3-year-old girl loves her new seat! It fits great in our car - she is safe and secure with the added benefit of being cozy. We have been Britax people up to now, and still love Britax, but would recommend this seat to everyone!

We had to send our Recaro seat back because we didn't feel it sunk into the seat of our van well. Maybe it would be different in a different vehicle, but it didn't seem to fit well in ours.

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With a few changes this would be the perfect seat, but for now we are going with the Britax Blvd. Looks great and the "cacooning "effect of the deep seat seems very safe. The weight and height limits surpass all and it seems very solid. BUT, when the huge head wings are removed (my son is 14 mos and is average on the growth chart for head size and hated them) there is little padding behind the head(more padding all over would be called for in my opinion). My husband and I tried several time to install it RF(my son will ride RF until he max's out the seat's weight limit for RF) and could never get it tight. The strap you pull to tighten is very hard to use RF and even though the deep seat seemed safer, my son cant see around the sides so he cries. Also the straps are fairly thin so they twist more easily. I really wanted to love this seat and I think I would have if it were more comfortable and my son were ready to turn around. More of a FF seat than a convertible.