Kidsflex Car Seat
The Kidsflex car seat is designed to provide optimum postural support for special needs children during travel. With a range of options and adjustments available, the Kidsflex can be configured to allow complete comfort and postural management for your child. Accessories include lateral supports, shoulder supports, pommel, head supports, footrest, etc.
The slimline seat cushions coupled with a narrow seat base, allow for more space and headroom inside the vehicle. This allows for easier transfers in and out of the car. To make transfers even easier, a swivel base is available to spin the seat so that the caregiver or parent does not strain their back lifting the user over the edge of the car seat.
With an easily adjustable seat base to allow for increased seat depth and a harness that can adjust in length and height, the Kidsflex provides ample growth opportunities.
It is compatible with most vehicles and is designed to be installed in the back seat with the use of the vehicle’s 3-point safety belt. Additional to the vehicle’s seat belt, the Kidsflex comes with a 5-point padded harness to ensure optimum postural support and comfort.
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Features:
Backrest with recline function
The KidsFlex has a reclining back support – a necessity for user’s who lack sufficient head control.
5-Point harness
The Kidsflex comes with a 5-point padded harness with abdominal padding to ensure optimum postural support and comfort.
Seat Super Slim Swivel Base
To make transfers even easier, an innovative swivel base with a compact design is available to spin the seat so that the carer or parent does not strain their back lifting the user over the edge of the seat. The pivot point of the swivel base is off-centre, so that when it is rotated it simultaneously swivels away from the vehicle seat backrest and towards the vehicle door. This allows for easier transfers so that the caregiver does not have reach as far into the vehicle. The swivel base is available in left and right side configurations.
Slim seat base
The Kidsflex seat base is very slim, coupled with slimline seat cushions, allowing increased available height within the vehicle and also at the door where lifting the user in and out of the car can become a problem. This allows for easier transfers in and out of the car.
Robust structure
The Kidsflex has a robust structure enduring your child is safe and secure.
Grows with your child
With an easily adjustable seat base to allow for increased seat depth and a harness that can adjust in length and height, the Kidsflex provides ample possibilities to adapt the seat to the growth of the child.
Angular seat adjustment
The Kidsflex seat is adjustable in angle to accommodate limited hip flexion of the user, or tilt the user back if they back sufficient head control.Available accessories
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Understanding car seat standards in Australia
Getting to grips with the regulations regarding child restraint systems in Australia can be difficult. We hope the information below helps in some way, and we recommend a visit to the Mobility and Accessibility for Children in Australia Ltd (MACA) website for more details. MACA is a not-for-profit registered charity dedicated to advancing the rights of children with disabilities and medical conditions to safe and accessible transport, and the information below is generously made available by MACA.
Australian vs international standards
Australian and overseas standards/regulations provide requirements to support the design, safety and use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles. However, these standards/regulations differ, particularly for child restraint systems designed for children with disabilities and medical conditions.
Child restraints sold through shopfronts in Australia (Australian standard car seats) are designed for children without additional needs and comply with the Australian standard, whereas special purpose car seats comply with overseas standards/regulations. This is because, unlike the Australian standard for child restraints, overseas standards and regulations provide safety and performance requirements for special purpose car seats. Overseas standards and regulations provide requirements for special purpose car seats, which means all products available in Australia comply with overseas standards or regulations, such as the ECE R44/04.
Key differences between standards
There are many differences in the requirements of each standard and regulation in Australian and overseas standards. This impacts on how they are installed and used in motor vehicles.The Australian standard has more dynamic testing requirements, including frontal, side, rear (for some restraints), and inverted for baby restraints to test for occupant ejection. It also tests to a greater force than overseas standards. Side impact protection is a key feature of Australian standard car seats and until recently Australia had the only standard in the world requiring side impact testing. However it has recently been introduced in the European Standard and has been proposed for the US and Canadian standards. This means we are likely to see improved side impact protection features for some special purpose car seats in the future.
US and Canadian child restraints generally have a 6 year life, whereas Australian Standard restraints have about 10 years, due to the mandatory use of UV and thermal stabilisers.
Australian standard car seats use shoulder height markers and approximate age to guide use, similar to the European standard ECE r129. Whereas the European standard ECE r44 only uses occupant weight (up to 36 kg). In contrast, the US and Canadian have no weight requirements, therefore special purpose car seats from these locations permit higher occupant weight.
Tether straps
All Australian standard rearward and forward facing car seats and booster seats that weigh more than 2kg are required to have a top tether. This includes car and booster seats sold by shopfronts designed for children without additional needs.
This is different to overseas standards. For example, the ECE r129 requires the use of ISOFIX attachments only for installation (no option for using the vehicle seatbelt like Australian standard car seats) – in combination with either a foot prop or top tether.
For many families who require a special purpose car seat, the swivel base is important as it makes transferring your child to and from the car seat so much easier and safer. There is often the incorrect perception that you need to use a top tether strap with all car seats in Australia due to the Australian standards, which impacts on the usefulness of the swivel base. This is incorrect, as special purpose car seats with a swivel base do not have to conform to Australian standards at present as they meet overseas standards and regulations.
Technical specifications
| Size 1 | Size 2 | Size 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max weight | 22kg | 32kg | 75kg |
| Seat width | 27cm - 31cm | 31cm - 35cm | 36cm - 40cm |
| Seat depth | 28cm - 33cm | 34cm - 39cm | 40cm - 46cm |
| Shoulder height | 40cm - 48cm | 48cm - 55cm | 55cm - 64cm |
| Lateral height | 21cm - 25cm | 25cm - 29cm | 30cm - 36cm |
| Lateral width | 19cm - 28cm | 23cm - 32cm | 29cm - 40cm |
| Weight | 8.2kg | 8.9kg | 12.3kg |
Warranty Information
The Kidsflex car seat is provided with a 24 month warranty on all solid parts and 12 months warranty on all moving parts from the date of delivery.
Product Compliance with Relevant Standards
The Kidsflex car seat has been tested to and complies with the following standards:
- Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices
ARTG Certificate: 223836
