Consumer Reports Recalls Car Seat Study

Consumer Reports, the consumer product testing magazine, announced Thursday that is withdrawing a recent report on rear-facing infant car seats after learning of a problem in the way some of the tests were conducted.

The magazine said it still stands behind its request for a recall of one of the seats, however, since that seat performed poorly in a test that is not now in question.

That report alleged that several infant car seats failed crash tests performed using tougher standards than those used by the federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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iown1 - 1/19/2007 11:46:42 AM

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It just goes to show that these organizations, Consumer Reports, JD Power et. al. are equally as falable as the products they judge.

Agent009 - 1/19/2007 1:32:14 PM

+1 Boost

Good research never leaves all the eggs in one basket..

iown1 - 1/19/2007 12:49:18 PM

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I couldn't agree with you more, however I wonder if they would have acknowledged it without the questioning by the NHTSA? Will, you have to have faith in their reports because that many of your assertions are based on them. And I'm not saying they (Consumer Reports) are often wrong, or even that your arguements are without merit. Consumer Reports' misrepresentation of the facts should, however, encourage everyone to ascess all available information as a whole and not take one group/survey as the definitive truth. It's just being objective.

Shredmo - 1/19/2007 3:57:16 PM

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Having a child that recently had one of the seats tested, I was impressed with the tests even more after the errors were detected. If a couple infant seats can be deemed acceptable in a 70mph side impact, that is pretty good. Where else are you going to get this kind of info. With an automobile, safety is an important factor to consider, among other things. With a child seat, safety is really the only factor. They can withdraw this report, but the overall information is still valid in my opinion.

chewy - 1/19/2007 4:23:03 PM

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Wait, we can trust this guys that they provide correct information about how many times your car will break when they fabricate and lie to us.

Bill - 1/20/2007 10:28:39 AM

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Pathetic research / survey or whatever you want to call it. Like I said before, these Consumer Reports don't mean nothing to me.

A neighbour of mine had a bad experience with his Audi and told me that if he ever got surveyed he'd "make them pay". Now, them probably means Audi and his comment about "making them pay" to me means giving them a bad review. Automatically, this is classified as BIAS, especially since the only thing that kept messing up in that car was the radio. Because of this, the whole car is "crap" in this man's mind.

This is the reason I don't take CR and JD Powers seriously. Too much bias.