Infa Secure Car Seats: Pros & Cons 🚗
📅 Book your baby seat installation todayAll Infa Secure car seats come standard with a number of great features — features other manufacturers can only dream of having, and in some cases will never incorporate into their own designs.
These features boil down to making the seat easier to use for parents, grandparents, and carers. Unfortunately, there are also a number of drawbacks with Infa Secure car seats — covered below.
🛡️ Air Cocoon Technology
Many parents don’t realise that all Infa Secure car seats are blow-molded, which makes the child restraints inherently safer, since they have air injected within the plastic. Squeeze an Infa car seat today and you’ll feel air move in and out of the seat — like one big cocoon around your child. No add-ons, no upgrades, and no extra cost, for much more safety.
🛋️ Easy recline adjustment
Parents who’ve bought an Infa Secure car seat know the red lever underneath the seat provides a number of different recline positions, letting you change the recline even after the restraint has been installed.
The red lever recline adjustment is a far easier mechanism for getting the correct recline for your child, compared to the two- or three-position recline mechanisms on Britax or Maxi Cosi seats. Two current Infa models don’t have the easy recline: the Infa Secure Evolve/Emerge and the Infa Secure Comfi.
🔧 Single-path baby car seat installation
Infa Secure pioneered single seat-belt-path installation — meaning you don’t need to find a different seat belt path for rear-facing versus forward-facing; it’s the same pathway either way. This means fewer errors when installing the child restraint, and a safer seat overall.
🪢 Longer tether strap extension
Infa provide a longer upper tether extension, meaning that regardless of where your anchor point is, there’s less chance you’ll need to purchase an additional tether extension to complete installation of your Infa Secure car seat.
In rear-facing mode, the buckle for the upper tether can be moved to either side of the restraint for all rear-facing child restraints, so you can easily loosen the upper tether to place your child in the seat.
Unlike other brands, Infa Secure lets you position the buckle on either side of the restraint without needing to call in an authorised repair agent — an important consideration in an SUV where you need a rear-facing seat on the driver’s side. The downside is that with an integrated headrest, the anchor point can be difficult to reach.
One last note: the upper tether buckle can be positioned on the side of the restraint rather than behind it, unlike Mothers Choice car seats.
🇦🇺 Designed in Australia
Infa Secure car seats are designed in Australia for Australia, rather than adapted from a European, American, or Canadian design. No additional parts have been bolted on just to comply with our Australian car safety standards.
⚠️ Drawbacks
🎽 Harness increment
Because every Infa Secure shell is blow-molded, there are limits to how close together the harness slots can be. The harness increment is 40mm, whether it’s manually adjusted (e.g. Kompressor) or a “hassle free” harness (e.g. Quattro or Grandeur). Compare this to Britax’s 15mm increment — the smaller gap means the harness sits more securely on Britax seats.
🪢 Centre tether strap
⚠️ The centre tether strap for forward-facing Type G car seats makes installation difficult when the headrest is integrated into the seat. Placed over the top, the strap can slip to the side and become loose — moving it to the side isn’t a great solution either.
⚠️ The centre strap causes the same problem for A/B car seats in forward-facing mode with an integrated headrest. Many fitters split the tether to go either side of the headrest, but in an emergency this may come loose.
💡 A better solution is a tether strap on either side of the seat, like Britax baby car seats use.
🪑 All-in-one seat (Luxi)
⚠️ The Infa Luxi all-in-one seat tries to do too much — the manual headrest adjustment causes problems in use. Some carers thread the harness straps over the sash guide so they only need to adjust the headrest to change harness height. This incorrect usage means that in an accident, all the stress is placed on the sash guide rather than the shell of the car seat.
⚠️ The headrest screw also tends to come loose after repeated use, making the headrest difficult or impossible to adjust — leaving it of little practical use.
Mixed — only 2 models recommended
Although there are some great advantages to Infa Secure car seats, the drawbacks outweigh many of the benefits, and only a couple of models can be used safely and easily by carers. The Infa Kompressor and the Infa Secure Quattro are the only seats we recommend.
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