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Maxi-Cosi Mico Infant Car Seat - Juice | 
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| Brand: Maxi-Cosi
Category: Baby Product
Buy New: $144.49
New (2) from $144.49
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 5870
Color: Juice
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 1 month - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 21.6
Dimensions (in): 16 x 18 x 30.8
MPN: 22371JUC
UPC: 044681227745
EAN: 0044681227745
ASIN: B000U1TEFQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The Maxi-Cosi Mico Infant Car Seat offers European style while providing the ultimate in comfortable transportation | | • | Includes EPP foam for energy absorption, plush cozi dozi infant insert and stay-in-car adjustable base | | • | Compatible with the Quinny Buzz and the Quinny Zapp | | • | For children 5-22 lbs. and up to 29 inches |
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Product Description
The Maxi-Cosi Mico Infant Car Seat offers European style while providing the ultimate in comfortable transportation. Includes EPP foam for energy absorption, plush cozi dozi infant insert and a stay in car base. The Mico's weighted base (included) installs in a rear-facing configuration with LATCH connectors, but you can also install the carseat using only your vehicle's safety belts and the carrier's special belt guides. Compatible with the Quinny Buzz and the Quinny Zapp. Weighs 8.65 lbs.( without the base). For children 5-22 lbs. and up to 29 inches. 14"H x 17"W x 25"D. Juice, Lemonade, Black, and Happy Flowers. Excellent baby gear products and other baby stuff available for baby registry. Infant car seats for your baby.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Good with some drawbacks December 2, 2008
Lisa
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First the positives. As mentioned by another reviewer, this seat has high safety ratings, meeting both U.S. and European standards. It is nicely padded -- my son sleeps in it for hours with no complaints. It has a small footprint so it fits nicely into smaller cars. (This may explain why some users found their kids outgrew it quickly). It snaps right into the base easily and is a bit lighter than others that I have tried. On a more superficial note, this is a good looking carseat -- the fabrics come in very cheery color combinations and its styling is more sophisticated than most other carseat offerings. I personally appreciated the lack of funky prints and baby-ish patterns.
On the down side, this seat doesn't fit with several of the universal frames such as the Snap and Go. The only universal frame that I have been able to find to accommodate it is the Maclaren Easy Traveller which is a bit harder to find and a bit more expensive than its competitors. It also doesn't work with many of the adapters that are available with various strollers. So if you don't plan on buying a Quinny stroller, your options for a compatible frame or stroller will be limited.
Another drawback is that this seat lacks a notch that allows it to fit snugly on the seat area of a shopping cart. Most other seats marketed in the U.S. seem to have this. While you can still sit it on the top of the shopping cart, that notch would make it much more secure. I never even knew about this until after I starting bringing my little one to the supermarket and realized this deficiency.
Finally, I agree that the sunshade could provide more coverage, but I'm not sure how it compares to other car seats in this regard.
Overall, I'm still happy with the purchase, but if you want to use it as part of a travel system and not just as a car seat, be sure to check for compatibility. If you aren't buying a Quinny stroller, you may run into problems.
 Flying young September 18, 2008
Michael B. Hardy (Gulliver, MI United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I live in Michigan and needed a car seat to bring back my infant grandson from California. This car seat is one of the few, in fact the only one I could find, that is the correct width to fit into the airline seat without having to raise the armrest. In fact the label states it is FAA certified.
The LATCH system works great. Once installed correctly, that seat is not going anywhere.
Only two drawbacks to a perfect car seat. One is that the sun shade is too short. Easy to fix with a receiving blanket laid on the sun shield and carrying handle. The second problem is the weight. This sucker is heavy, and when you add 8 pounds of baby, expects longer arms. Long hike at Detroit Metro made this very obvious.
For the welfare of the baby, longer arms are not a problem.
Not my favorite July 26, 2008
KT (Austin, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very excited to get this car seat since I have the Quinny Buzz stroller. When we put our new baby in the seat we had a lot of trouble getting it buckled. The main problem is that the strap that comes up between the child legs is very short, making it hard to manipulate. I know newborns can be difficult to get strapped in, but this is my 3rd child, so I have some experience. We ended up cutting the padding off the seatbelts because it was getting in the way. I used the seat 3 times and then pulled the good ol' Britax out of the garage and installed it in my car instead.
Great car seat July 11, 2008
J. E. King (Bronx, NY USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
We've been using this car seat for almost 9 months now, and I totally love it. The seat is easy to install both with and without the base. We keep the base in our car - the seat just drops in and clicks - and we've installed it with just the seat belt in the grandparents cars and it is firmly secure with just a lap belt. (It fits in our Toyota Prius just fine with the base - we've had it in a Honda CR-V and a Dodge minivan using seat belts.). The seat is well padded, and my daughter rides comfortably and will sleep for hours in it. Safety wise - well, it meets European standards as well as U.S., and is side-impact rated, so I feel confident that Allie is safe. We routinely carried the car seat to/from the car until our daughter was about 5 or 6 months old. It then got really heavy. (But I guess any car seat would...) The car seat now usually resides in the car, but getting our daughter in and out has been pretty easy, despite the seat being rear-facing. Others have complained that the shoulder straps don't adjust high enough for their baby, but we haven't yet had that problem. At 9 mos, she's at the top-most slots, but she still has a little room to grow.
We also purchased the Quinny Buzz as a travel system. My only complaint with this is that the stroller requires adaptors to take the car seat, and its an either/or situation - either you snap in the car seat OR you have the stroller seat, you can't have both which is a pain for us b/c we live in a tall apartment building and the garage is far away so we end up carrying the stroller seat with us if we want to use both. Otherwise the system works well.
Overall, we're very happy with the decision, and I'll probably be going with the Maxi-Cosi priori when its time to change up to a convertible seat.
 Not enough shoulder strap slots! July 3, 2008
VisAnth (San Francisco, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This seat was the only one other than a Graco infant seat that would snap into our stroller frame (Mutsy stroller). We loved the vivid orange and red/pink colors too. But, we have some major complaints. Our daughter is 5 months old, 15 1/2 lbs. and 26 inches. She is ready for another car seat already because this one doesn't fit her! Basically, the length is SUPPOSED to be good until 29" and it would if there were one more rung on the shoulder harness slots. But, when we brought her home at 21 1/2 inches long, we already had to adjust the harness to the second to last slot. I suppose we'll get another month out of this seat if all her height grows in her legs and not her torso. Otherwise, we'll need a convertible car seat very shortly. I DO NOT recommend this seat for people with long babies. Even the cheap graco seats have higher shoulder slots. (Each slot has about a quarter of an inch in between them so it doesn't take long to move up the rungs when the average baby grows two inches a month for the first six months!)
Also, the sunshade is too short. I'm forever riding in the back of the car holding my hands up to keep the sun out of my daughter's eyes, or putting a blanket hanging down over the edge for added shade.
Pros are that this seat is super cushioned unlike the graco seats and yet is still on par with those seats for price. Oh, and did I mention how stylish these seats are? I keep getting stopped in stores and asked where we got it. I would give it 5 stars if they could address the shoulder harness issues or if I had had a smaller baby!
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