Clek Foonf Convertible Child Seat Snowberry

Clek Foonf Convertible Child Seat, Snowberry
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Product Description

Foonf is Clek's no-compromise convertible child seat introducing revolutionary safety technology, innovative convenience features, and 100% recyclable materials. Foonf's REACT (Rapid Energy-Absorbing Crumple Technology) safety system is inspired by automotive safety technology. Like the crumple zones that protect us in the cars we drive, the crumple zone system integrated into every Foonf child seat absorbs energy from a collision preventing it from being transmitted to the child, reducing the forces on a forward-facing child in frontal collision by up to 40%. Foonf is also engineered with both advanced rear-facing and side-impact safety systems. In rear-facing mode, Foonf boasts a 45 pounds weight limit to keep children rear-facing longer and is designed with an anti-rebound bar, which improves stability and further protects the child's head. Foonf is also built on a rigid metal sub-structure with energy-absorbing foam layers in the sides and headrest to protect the child in a side-impact collision. Committed to designing convenience into car seats, Foonf is designed with Clek's signature rigid latch system, making proper forward-facing installation effortless. Rear-facing installation features a simple, click in angle-adjustment wedge with quick-access to standard latch connectors. Its narrow width profile of under 17" at its widest point (and 13" at the base) provides space that makes 3-across seating possible. The seat covers are made with crypton super fabrics, which provide permanent protection against stains, moisture and bacteria. Foonf also features side-bolster magnets to keep harnesses and buckles open while you place your child in the seat, and a recline feature for angle adjustment and comfort. After its 9-year expiration, Foonf lives on. The entire seat is 100% recyclable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20749 in Baby Product
• Size: Birth -and UP
• Color: Snowberry
• Brand: Clek
• Model: FO12U1-PKW
• Released on: 2012-08-18
• Fabric type: 100% Crypton Super Fabrics
• Dimensions: 23.00" h x17.00" w x.0" l,34.00 pounds

Features

• Features the react safety system which reduces forces on the forward facing child in by up to 40%, Foonf is built on a steel sub-structure with energy-absorbing foam in the sides and headrest to protect in side-impact, Foonf is designed with latch system, making proper forward-facing installation effortless, Its narrow width profile of under 17" at its widest point (and 13" at the base) provides space that makes 3-across seating possible, The entire seat is 100% recyclable

Most helpful customer reviews

123 of 126 people found the following review helpful.IN A HURRY? JUST READ THISI am very pleased with this car seat due to the strong (steel and magnesium) frame and, most importantly, the longevity of the seat for rear-facing, which is much safer in a crash than forward-facing. It was easy to install DESPITE the somewhat lacking manual and fits well in the center of our Honda Civic's backseat. I can even still see out the windows. For this price, though, I have to take off a star for some inconveniences and minor issues (e.g. difficulty in reaching harness release button, poor manual) that will hopefully be corrected in future versions. Had I not needed a convertible seat so soon, I would not have been an early adopter of the first run. I will update this over the next several months with further thoughts.Regardless of which seat you choose, I HIGHLY recommend that anyone with a car seat get your installation checked by a CPS (Child Passenger Safety) technician. Many parents do not have their car seats properly installed or are not fully securing their children. A quick visit with a tech can help you make sure you are helping the seat do its best job!REALLY INTO CAR SEATS? READ ON FOR THE LONG VERSION ...When we started shopping for car seats, we continually asked for recommendations from others on the 'best' seat, by which we meant the safest one. What we discovered is that most employees and CPS (Child Passenger Safety) technicians gave the same reply: "The right car seat or booster fits your child and your car, and is one you will use correctly every time you travel."This used to really frustrate me, especially when I considered the wide variety of features offered by different manufacturers. What I discovered is that some of the technologies used, like the side impact cushions on the Britax Advocate, sound good, but we have no way of knowing how effective they are because the United States does not currently have side impact testing standards for child safety restraints. (That was a big surprise to me, which should be your first clue that I am not a car seat tech.) I say this not to knock Britax or any other manufacturer, but merely to point out that we do not know whether some of the features they tout actually improve crash outcomes or are more for marketing purposes than anything else. However, what we do know is that rear-facing absolutely improves crash outcomes, so longer rear-facing quickly became one of my must-haves in a convertible car seat.Originally, I was still considering a Britax convertible in part because I hoped the SIP would be helpful in a crash. However, through research online I discovered that some children outgrew the Britax Advocate earlier than they would have outgrown some other available convertibles due to the size of the Britax shell. So I had to weigh something that might possibly help (Britax side impact) against what is absolutely known to help (rear-facing at least until 2, but ideally up until 4 as is practiced in Sweden), which meant that I wasn't going to take a chance on our child becoming too tall for the Advocate at an early age. We then briefly considered a Radian RXT, which is great for longer rear-facing, but my husband did not feel comfortable with such shallow sides and how open it felt should we ever need to place it outboard, so we kept looking until we found the Foonf.WHAT'S GREAT- Rear-facing up to 43" and 50 lbs, which makes it great for keeping younger, but heavier, children rear-facing. (Wondering why I keep mentioning rear-facing? Even the American Academy of Pediatrics now advises parents to keep their toddlers in Rear-Facing car seats until age 2, or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat, as it significantly reduces crash forces in children whose heads are disproportionately large and heavy.)- The seat itself is easy to install and has a narrow footprint. I think I really could get three of these in my Civic's backseat if I needed to. We did have to use a little force to install the anti-rebound bar (ARB), but it wasn't too bad.- The Dragonfly cover is very nice and soft to the touch. Having already spilled water on the seat, I was pleased to watch it bead up and then be easily wiped away. Although the seats are firm, they are not hard and do not strike me as uncomfortable.- clek has been very responsive to customers on their Facebook page, particularly about points of confusion. I wrote to them with a question and got a prompt and thorough response.- clek will recycle this car seat if you send it back to them! You do pay an upfront fee of $20, but once they receive the seat, they give you a $20 credit towards their online store. If you were planning to upgrade to one of their booster seats, this would (as of the date I am writing this, at least) give you a slightly lower price on the new seat than Amazon offers.- Crypton fabrics are Greenguard certified!WHY YOU MIGHT WANT TO WAIT- The manual is very long, but I found it confusing for several reasons. First, the manual often tells you to refer to another section, but never gives the page number of the section, so you must return to the table of contents and then find the new spot. A minor inconvenience, but an unnecessary one. Next, the illustrations are small enough that they do not always readily convey the detail needed to understand the instructions. Also, the same information is repeated throughout the manual, which I found distracting. I spent a lot of time reading over duplicate info to make sure it did not contain anything new. However, I can see that this is a good tactic in order to ensure that a parent flipping only to a certain section is more likely to see critical warnings at least once, while people like me - who read everything - get it multiple times.I had many questions that the manual did not answer. For example, the sticker on the rear-facing base implies that only position three (fully reclined) can be used rear-facing. The manual does not mention anything other than the seat needs to be in position 3 to install the ARB and that the ARB must be used when rear-facing, but an alternative mode was being tested for smaller cars. This, coupled with the sticker, led me to believe that position 2 could not be used rear-facing. After clarifying with clek, however, it turns out that while the ARB must be used for the duration of rear-facing (at least at the moment, until whatever the 'alternative mode' is comes to fruition), both positions 2 and 3 are appropriate while rear-facing. Not sure why the sticker does not reflect this, but I am happy to know my child isn't stuck with a full recline.If you find yourself confused about something, do contact clek, as they seem to be very good about getting back with customers. You may also find your question posted on their Facebook page, which is regularly attended to.- I have a hard time depressing the harness-release lever. For some reason, there is not a button on the car seat for this, but an open hole above the part of the harness that you pull to tighten it. You put your finger into this hole and must feel around for the lever. At first, I continued to fiddle with a little knob-like thing, but I finally figured out the lever was below it. However, I keep accidentally sliding my hand in and getting the lever to jab me between my finger and my nail. No one else has had this happen to them, but several other family members have struggled to find the lever. I really hope clek changes this in a future version.- The headrest on my model does not go up and down smoothly. I don't know if this is true for others or if it is just a quirk of mine, but I have to struggle to move it. As an aside, please note that you need to use a special tool (tucked away somewhere on the car seat, though I forget where at the moment) to completely remove the headrest, so do not think it is broken if it does not come off on its own!- This seat is not for newborns, so you need to wait until your child is at least 14 lbs and has good head control. I believe they recommend six months.- Many more patterns are expected. I really wanted the Julius Stripe, but my immediate need for the seat outweighed that, so I made peace with my green Foonf.OTHER MINOR COMPLAINTS- I have no idea why there is a slightly less expensive 'Drift' model with a cheaper fabric. When you are paying $450 for a car seat, why would $25 extra make a big difference? As far as I can tell, there is no advantage to the 'automotive' fabric, so why not make the Drift pattern in the Crypton fabric?- The magnets for the harness are a nice idea, but too small and too weak to really make a difference. I spend as much time making sure I find the magnet and place the harness in the right spot to attach them as I normally do holding the harness out of the way, so I end up rarely using the magnets.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful.I am a mom of 3 kids and they range in age from 1 year to 9 years old. I've used quite a few car seats over the years (Britax Marathon, Britax Boulevard, Britax Pavilion, Diono Radian, Britax Frontier, to name a few). I have always considered myself a Britax girl so purchasing the Foonf felt a little like cheating, at first. Over the last few years, I've become increasingly aware of car seat safety faux paus that many of us, including myself, tend to make. Like turning a child forward facing far too soon because "it's legal". No one year old should ever be forward facing. With our latest addition, I felt that I wanted to rear face her as close to four years old as we could get. So I searched for seats with very high rear facing height and weight limits. That left me looking at the Diono Radian, the Clek Foonf, and some of the Graco seats (like MySize 70). These seats have the highest rear facing limits on the market. Sadly, Britax wasn't even a consideration because their shells are far too short to last long rear facing. Plus, of all the seats on the market, they are about the worst with leg room when used rear facing.I decided on the Foonf after much deliberation. The price tag was very expensive, which honestly was a deterrent, but I was not excited to install the Diono Radian (which can be tricky and often requires an angle adjustor to fit rear facing), and the Graco seats are known to have been having harness issues. I ordered the seat and anxiously awaited it's arrival while saying over and over to myself, "how could you spend so much money on a car seat?".The seat arrived a few days later and required some assembly right out of the box. The manual is lacking. For such an expensive seat, Clek really needs to fix the manual. Still, I was able to get the seat assembled pretty easily and with very little trouble. I did watch a youtube video made by Clek on how to install the anti-rebound bar. I can see how that could give people trouble but after watching the video twice, I popped it in easily.Once I had the seat put together for rear facing, it was time to install it in my car. I'm used to installing Britax seats, so I'm very accustomed to a seat that installs perfectly in one minute or less. On my very first install with the Foonf, I got it in correctly with the latch and rock solid in about 2 minutes. That's awesome for a first time :). So I would say that it is very easy to install this seat with LATCH. I have not yet tried installing with the seat belt because my little one is only 23 pounds, but from a video I watched on youtube, it looks to be very easy to install with the seat belt.So I was able to get the seat put together by myself and installed correctly and so tight it doesn't budge on the first time. Then it was time for a test drive with my 19 month old daughter. She hated her Britax Pavilion and I suspect it had to do with the fact that she couldn't see out the window and that her legs were already pretty crunched (at only 32 inches tall). I put her in this seat and she immediately stretched her little legs all the way out where not even her toes touched the seat back. I can tell that her legs will have a lot of room rear facing for quite sometime before she has to start sitting criss-cross or hanging her legs over the sides. The harness was easy to buckle and adjust, and I had no issues getting her in. The seat sits very high but does not create any blind spots in my 2013 Toyota Sienna. I have the seat in the middle row captain's chair, behind the driver.I think the fact that the seat is up so high is one of the reasons my daughter enjoys this seat so much, she can easily watch the world go by as we drive. Also, while the seat doesn't feel exactly "plush", like a Britax, the fabric is still very comfy and soft. And as a really great bonus, it wipes clean very easily. So if this seat is in your budget, I highly recommend it. I am so glad I bought it and have no regrets. But do remember that all seats sold in the U.S. are safe, whether they cost $40 or $400. They all pass the same crash testing (but some are much more user friendly than others, making them easier to use correctly). So please do not equate cost with safety. If the seat is simply not feasible for your budget, there is no reason to try to purchase it. There are many very safe seats at a fraction of the cost. The safest seat you can buy fits your little one and your car well and is installed correctly 100% of the time :).

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful.(We bought this seat at Buy Buy Baby using a 20% off coupon from Bed Bath and Beyond)After reading positive and negative reviews on several popular car seats, we decided on impulse to buy this one. The seat is impressively heavy and sturdy, and looks like it belongs in a NASCAR vehicle. After using it for 4 months (we are now buying a second seat for our other car and shopping around once again) I can say that although the seat's safety features are impressive, it falls short in the details:The good:-If you're reading reviews on this seat then you already know about the steel magnesium frame, and the ability to rear face your child much longer than most other seats. Definite plus, and for me, the selling features.-Clek's customer service is great at answering any question you have in a timely manner.The not-so-good:-The seat really falls short in the details: strap covers are tiny and slide around a lot, the groin strap is short and too close to the back of the seat, and the seat lacks any type of padding. Now, sure, you can go out and purchase strap covers at Target for $9.99 but you shouldn't have to when you're buying the most expensive car seat on the market. You wouldn't expect to buy a Lexus only to go to Best Buy and have to buy a CD player for it because it only came with a cassette player.Groin strap: I'm surprised a lot of reviews aren't mentioning this, but the strap is both short and too close to the back of the seat. There is a second slot which we are using (our toddler is 18 months old, 31 inches tall, and weighs 24 pounds), but I can't imagine using the seat when she gets much bigger because the clip sits really low and the strap buckles press into her thighs. I contacted Clek about buying a longer strap, and as of July 2013 they don't have one available (but did say they will have one available for purchase sometime in the future). There is a cloth/foamy cover which is supposed to insulate the child's legs from the buckles -you can see it in the picture- but it moves around and is an annoyance to adjust. Again, it's a slight ding against the seat's overall rating.Padding: We often travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and I honestly can't imagine our child sitting in this seat for more than an hour or two because it doesn't have any padding. I know lots of other seats don't either, but several do, so if you're looking to use this seat on longer drives I would advise you to go and look at it in person and compare the foam padding to other seats.Head hang: After sitting in the back seat with our toddler I noticed that her head falls forward when she's asleep. The seat is reclined as far as it can, but one of the features of the seat is that it sits up higher so the head hang is inevitable. Clek has a link on their Facebook page addressing this -it's a post written by a doctor who reassures us that babies are flexible so heads hanging in a weird way is really not unusual and not harmful at all. Fine, if you're driving on a smooth road. But where I drive there is lots of bopping up and down (occasional pothole, speed bump, driveway, etc) so her head REALLY bobbles around which worries me because then it's outside of the protective side wings and just looks unsafe.Strap covers: The seat came with strap covers which are removable, but they are small and slide easily so you have to adjust them, tighten the straps, then adjust again, and then adjust once more. I think the strap covers are made of a rare platinum-diamond-gold material which costs $100,000 per square inch because they reeeeeallly tried hard to use as little fabric as possible to create a thing they can call "strap covers." I guess adding another inch of fabric would have put them out of business..Mnual: This is a common complaint, the manual is terrible. I think they spent all their money sewing up those tiny strap covers so when it was time to write the manual they went to their disgruntled intern who invested all of 30 minutes typing it up in word, printing out the pages, then mixing them up just for fun.Summary: The seat's sturdiness and heft is impressive, but it's not padded, the groin strap is thong-like, and a sleeping toddler turns into a bobblehead. See the seat in person before you buy it, or make sure you can return it because you probably won't like all the details I pointed out.