We recently moved our 3.5 year old from a rear facing Britax Marathon Convertible Car Seat Onyx into a Graco Nautilus. While the Nautilus seems to do its job of keeping my son safe and secure in the car, it is lacking in several areas.
We are using the seat with the harness for our son and we love the smooth harness adjuster and high harness strap heights. My son loves the cup holder and the cubbies in the armrests.
However, the headrest on the seat tends to push his head forward as he sleeps causing it to dangle and the buckle on the harness sticks frequently even though it is a brand new seat and we don't let our son eat or drink in the car. The seat was easy to install with LATCH or the seatbelt, but the process could be made even simpler if Graco would add alligator style LATCH clips and seatbelt lockoffs.
The Nautilus is also narrow in the shoulders and has a very shallow crotch strap. My 3.5 year old string bean is already sitting on the outermost crotch buckle strap and I'm a little worried that he might be seriously uncomfortable in the seat before he is mature enough to sit properly in a booster at age 6.
We also really dislike the cheap fabric on the seat--we've only had ours for two weeks and it already looks worn.
Overall, it is a serviceable seat, but if I had to choose again I might go with the Britax Frontier Booster Car Seat Rushmore.Get more detail about Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat, Matrix.
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