Britax Marathon. How Long Did You Use It Before Switching to a Booster Combo?

We have 3 Frontier85 seats and LOVE them! We also have a Regent (now discontinued). The Frontier85 is great. We highly recommend that seat.

And it's so much safer than a booster. Our daughter will be 6 at the end of the month and I wouldn't even CONSIDER putting her in a booster! Her safety is not worth compromising for $220!

Get her one. She won't be disappointed! Let her choose what color! (We have red, tan, and cowmooflauge. Like all but the tan.)

My lanky just turned 4YO is about to outgrow his Marathon. He'll be moving into a Britax Regent- that's the older version of the Frontier. Ours has a few more good years before it expires, so he'll have that until he's ready for a belt-positioning booster.

I have a Marathon(70?-the new one) and a Frontier.
How big is your toddler? I know the Marathon should seat a child for a long time.
I had a...shoot what is it called...Roundabout for my first...she sat in it till she was 3.5-but she is very tall. Outgrew it heightwise long before weight.
She has a little friend who is still in her Marathon and she is 5-she's just shorter.
We switched to the Frontier and are very happy w/ it. It is a really sturdy seat. A lot of ppl recommend the Radian-it's a good seat too.
When I was researching them the Frontier seemed to have the highest limits on it (2 yrs. ago) so I went w/ it.
DD is 5.5 and still in the 5 pt. harness. :)

We also have a Nautilus and I really wish we had just bought another Frontier-it is just not as nice. Decent. But frustrating-I have a really hard time getting it unbuckled and I am pretty sure DD is going to grow out of it before the Frontier.

Hope this helps a little! :)

My son is turning 4 in May. He is 42" and weighs 42 lbs. He still sits in the Marathon in my husband's car. In my car, he sits in a Frontier. Both are great seats and he is happy in either one. He liked switching because the Frontier has cupholders and armrests, which he thinks are pretty cool.

We also have a Graco Nautilus for my MIL's car. It's very similar to the Frontier but half the price and easier to install. It's a great seat.

K.
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My kiddo outgrew the Marathon by height when she was 3 1/2. I got the Graco Nautilus. It let me keep her in the 5point harness as long as I needed /wanted to before moving her to the high back booster. And it had so much room for her to grow taller in!!

I have a 5 year old in the marathon and 6.5 year old in the Regent (old version of Frontier). I know it is probably time to switch the older on to a booster, but he really does not mind the Regent and I feel so much safer having them both in 5-point harnesses.

I was goin to swtich out y daughter but thankfully we didn't b/c we got hit by a dunk driver, car was totalled, everyone in the car but her was hurt, we just got the britax 70 to replace the britax boulevard we had...worth every penny!

I moved my oldest into a booster at age 4, and he had definitely outgrown the Marathon. It worked well, because my youngest was almost 2, so he went right into the Marathon. I put my oldest in a regular seat booster. He's really tall for his age, so with the seat booster his seatbelt fits him perfectly.

We got our son a Frontier just before he turned 3 because we needed the other seat for our almost 1 year old. He is now over the age of 4 and we still have him in the 5-point harness, mostly because I've been too lazy to figure out the belt positioning booster. He's still happy in the 5-point so I'll likely keep him in that until he needs to move up.