Terrifying test by Stiftung-Warentest: car seats for children can endanger the life of children. Over 60 seats were defective in the test.
- Stiftung Warentest : test of children's seats for the car - two seats were declared unsafe.
- According to the Stiftung Warentest, three of the car child seats that are currently available have been found to be harmful to health.
- Stiftung Warentest works with international consumer organizations to evaluate child car seats.
Kassel - Who his children even when driving in the car wants to protect adequately, which must none if a child specification seat in the car without. This here but not children -seat same kids specification seat is showed the last investigations of Stiftung Warentest. They made a total of 535 car - Children -Seats to the test. Over 60 of them performed poorly in the test. For some, this poses a potential risk of injury to children , which is potentially fatal to children in a car accident could be.
Test of child seats for the car: Stiftung Warentest evaluated these categories
As with all tests of the Stiftung Warentest were also evaluating the car - Children -Seats evaluated several criteria and combined into a total score. With 50 percent, the accident safety, most strongly, was included in the overall grade.
The other half of the assessment was made up of 40 percent handling the child's seats and the remaining 10 percent was assessed by the ergonomics assessment. In the test, Stiftung Warentest also examined whether there were any harmful substances in the children's products.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: International cooperation in the test
In the test of car seats business for children working Stiftung Warentest together with ADAC and consumer organizations from different countries. The team of experts assesses accident safety with the help of crash tests. The car seats for children are tested in every possible application. This means that if a child's seat can be installed in the car, for example, facing forwards and backwards, both variants will also be subjected to a crash test.
The test simulates a frontal impact and a side impact. The accident simulation was carried out with a body shell of a VW Polo. In the case of a frontal impact, the car's dummy is accelerated to 64 km / h before it hits a specific obstacle. The test is accompanied by high-speed cameras, so that the experts can look back at the exact location of the problem. To simulate the side impact, the car body, including the child seat, is bumped sideways onto a standing door. The car body, accelerated to 25 kilometers per hour , reaches impact values that correspond to an impact at 50 km / h on a stationary car .
Test of child seats for the car: Stiftung Warentest also assessed the handling
The second category of the test of Stiftung Warentest evaluated the handling of the car - Children -Seats. In this case, will be evaluated by experts on the one hand how high the risk of operator error at the respective car - children seats business is. On the other hand, the concrete handling in everyday life, i.e. installing, converting, buckling up and resizing, is assessed.
The respective instructions for use are also evaluated by an expert. The processing and cleaning, the car - Children -Sitzes is also evaluated by experts. The washability of the cover plays a key role here.
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Testing child seats for the car: Stiftung Warentest also took a close look at ergonomics
The ergonomics of the car seats for children were also assessed in the Stiftung Warentest test . With 10 percent, however, this part of the test has the smallest share of the overall rating. The ergonomic test of the car child seats was carried out on three different car models. Comfort, seating position, space in the car and space for the child was tested in either a Ford Fiesta, a VW T-Cross or a Citroen Berlingo.
In addition to the previous categories, Stiftung Warentest also examined the pollution of car and child seats. The main focus was on various plasticizers, dyes and flame retardants.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: These were the categories of child car seats
The Stiftung Warentest has in its test car - children divided -Seats in five weight categories. However, some models were also classified according to the so-called i-size standards. In these, the child seat is assigned to the children according to their height. Of the size specific groups, two are present in the test. In the first case, the size of the children is up to 105 cm tall . The second list includes car seats that are suitable for children with a height of 100 cm to 150 cm.
In the groupings by weight, car seats for children of different weights were combined. Here are the individual categories:
- Up to 10 or 13 kilograms of children's body weight
- Children's body weights up to 18 kg
- Up to 18, 15 or 36 kilograms of children's body weight
- From 9 to 18, 25 or 36 kilograms of children's body weight
- From 15 to 36 kilograms of children's body weight
In its test report, Stiftung Warentest gives consumers to understand that the categories, just like the categories and standards of the manufacturers, are only a rough guideline. When buying car seats, the children must always be involved in the purchase process for test sitting.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: These seats were given a very good rating
Overall, in the test of reaching Stiftung Warentest only 10 of the tested car - Children -Seats the note very well. In the i-size category for children up to 105 cm tall , only three products made it into the best possible classification. At the moment, however, only the latest of the models is available.
The Dream + Dream i-Size Base from Silver Cross not only scored in terms of accident safety with a rating of 1.3, but also convinced in the pollutant test. Here, the model even reached a smooth 1.0 for children with a height of 40 to 85 centimeters. Overall, that was enough for a rating of 1.5 on the Richter scale.
Test of child seats at Stiftung Warentest: The best seats were found in this category
Five models in the category up to 10 or 13 kilograms, the Stiftung Warentest test, achieved a very good overall rating. Two of the car child seats were offered online for the first time between 2009 and 2010. The remaining three had their first appearance between 2011 and 2014. The best in this category was the Privia with Recaro fix from Recaro. This outperformed the competition for child seats in the category, especially in terms of accident safety. Here he achieved a grade of 1.0.
In the other two subcategories, this child seat also scored with a very good result. However, Stiftung Warentest also points out that this product was recalled in 2016 due to technical defects. The products in the current sale, however, should not be affected.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: a seat was a touch better
The last two car seats, with very good test results from Stiftung Warentest, can be found in the children's body weight category between 9 kg and 18/25/36 kg. The two children's seats appeared for the first time in 2013. Both products were convincing in the test with an overall grade of 1.4.
The Cybex Juno-Fix was a touch better in terms of processing and cleaning than its competitor Phoenixfix Pro 2 Isofix from Kiddy. The Juno 2-Fix also scored with a lower overall weight compared to the Phoenixfix. The car-child seat from Cybex weighed a whole kilo less than its competitor.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: these are the defective seats from 2020
In the Stiftung Warentest Test, two child car seats from the current year scored poor results. One of the two, the iPro Baby + iPro Base from Hauck, was only able to conclude sufficiently with regard to accident safety. The product could not convince in the front impact behavior test.
The second defective child seat from 2020 is almost the same product. The car seat iPro Baby from Hauck was tested here without the iPro Base. However, the iPro without a base managed a 2.0 in the accident safety category. Both products were from the i-Size category up to 105 cm children's body size.
Test of child seats for the car: According to the Stiftung Warentest, these two seats are considered unsafe
In the currently available car seats, Stiftung Warentest classifies two of the tested child seats as unsafe. One of the two seats, the Saturn Fix from LCP Kids, comes from the category of 9 kg to 36 kg body weight of the children . It was rated poor in the accident safety rating category because it poses a high risk of injury from cutting the belt in the abdomen in the event of a frontal impact.
The second deliverable car - Children specification seat provided by Stiftung Warentest rated as unsafe, the Oasys i-sized Bebecare + i-sized base made by Chicco. This could also not convince in the frontal impact.
Test of child seats for the car at Stiftung Warentest: These seats were contaminated
Pollutants were detected in the Stiftung Warentest Test, in 3 available child car seats. The Fox model from Osann scored the most serious here. The content of the flame retardant TDCP even exceeded the limit set by the EU for children's toys under 3 years.
This can also be seen in the Tobifix model from Maxi-Cosi. Here, too, the value exceeds the EU limit. In the HY5 TT model, a naphthalene value was found above the GS label.
Test at Stiftung Warentest: Not only child seats for the car were last tested
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