Sunshine Kids Mighty Tite

As a child-passenger safety technician, I cringe whenever I see a product that helps parents circumvent proper seat installation! If a seat is installed properly, using the correct technique, this item is not necessary. Most instructions tell you to "put your knee" into the seat & show a picture of an adult standing in front of the seat with their knee in it. WRONG! Put your WHOLE BODY WEIGHT into the seat! The 40 lb. weight limit is not for the plastic shell's weight capacity, it is for the shell's capacity for the straps to not break through the plastic upon impact with a 40# child in it. I'm almost 200# in full police gear & haven't stressed a seat yet! Also, please DO NOT use a rolled up towel to obtain the 45 degree angle for rear-facing seats. When needed, Techs will use a section of foam "pool noodles," (sometimes 2-3 taped together with strapping tape). This provides a more solid spacer. Even these are not usually necessary & the seat can be...Read more

This device cut the seatbelt completely off in a auto accident. T-boned at about 25mph and it ripped seatbelt causing the carseat to be thrown. Thankfully no major injuries. This device will damage your seatbelt.

We bought this for safety, and then had to have it removed by the fire department, after calling the customer service department for the product who could not help and said I was the first call about this. We couldnt get it off and was told by the fire department who installs car safety seat that this was not a good product and they have removed several of these.