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Graco fans take note: a safety notice has been issued regarding certain ComfortSport (R) car seats.  If you are using a ComfortSport car seat in the rear-facing position and using the LATCH system for your vehicle, there is an increased risk of injury in an accident if your seat is one of the ones affected by the incorrectly routed harness belts (as described below in the notice sent out by Graco). 

Please look over this notice closely, as it is direct from the Graco website and includes a link to the directions for re-routing your child's seat harness to make it safe and properly placed.  (For those who know about my affinity for Graco products, this is not the model we use for either child.  I checked it out right away - we are using a SafeSeat model.)

Look it over - may you and yours be safe, especially this holiday weekend for those in the US!

Graco® has determined that on some ComfortSport™ car seats, the Lower Anchorage belt may have been misrouted during the assembly process. Click here to view correct vs. incorrect routings. On the affected seats, the Lower Anchorage belt was misrouted behind the shoulder portion of the harness instead of under the crotch belt/buckle portion of the harness. In the event of a crash, a misrouted Lower Anchorage belt could affect the performance of the car seat if it is installed in the rear-facing mode and the Lower Anchorage belt is attached to the vehicle's LATCH anchors. You are not affected by this Safety Notice if you are using the ComfortSport forward-facing & have rerouted the Lower Anchorage belt according to the instruction manual for use in this mode.

Injuries Reported: 0 Number of Units Affected: 276,921 Date Produced:  1/2/2007 - 7/31/2007 MSRP:  $79.99-139.99 Models Affected:  8629TWL, 8631DFT, 8631DRA, 8632PSO, 8635TAC, 8639COS, 8C00BLG, 8C00DMN, 8C00GRP, 8C00LNW, 8C00MID, 8C00TMB, 8C01SVD, 8C01WTN, 8C02MGI, 8C02MRC, 8C03HAL, 8C03WCF, 8C04FRR, 8433FOF, 8630MTR