Flex-loc infant car seat car seats
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Jul 23, 2012. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.
- 1report to CPSC
- Jul 23, 2012the latest report was made
- Jul 23, 2012the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Flex-loc infant car seat
- Maker
- BABY TREND, INCMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Car seatsFor infants or childrenCPSC’s product type: Car Seats (For Infants or Children) (code 1519), in Toys & Children: Strollers & Car Seats
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| July 2012 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.
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No one hurt Made Jul 23, 2012, sent to the company Aug 10, 2012, published by CPSC Aug 24, 2012
The product, in the report: Baby Trends, Flex-loc infant car seat
I own a Baby Trends “ Flex-loc “ infant car seat that has an obvious safety issue. The way that the safety harness is routed along with the “machining” of the slots that it is threaded thru pose a risk of uneven tension across baby’s body. After buckling baby in, you pull the strap at the bottom to tighten up the harness and due to poor quality or design only one side will tighten. Obviously you can see the safety risk this poses. I have found that, to successfully strap baby in, it takes 20 minutes every time to adjust the harness. The strap is all one unit that laces through machined slits in the plastic and ultimately ends up in the back where both ends are connected to an e-clip. At the bottom of the e-clip, another single strap slides underneath the car seat and through a tension mechanism at the front to adjust the tension of the shoulder straps. You would think that since both shoulder ends are attached to the same clip and pulled at the same time, that this wouldn’t be an issue but there is nothing to remedy this issue. I have contacted the company only to receive the run around with the usual: “you’re operating it wrong”, “Oh it’s 3 months old, well it’s out of warranty” or my favorite, “Well you can ship us your only car seat so we can “research” your claim and then if there are any problems we will fix it if we deem it our problem”. My response to the last one was “ what do I do in the mean time while you have my only car seat”. They had no answer
- Model
- cs31715
- Bought from
- Babies’r us
- Bought
- Sep 14, 2011, about then
- Where
- Unspecified: Other
- Who was involved
- Unknown
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Unspecified
- As this report names them
- Brand Flex-loc infant car seat, made or sold by BABY TREND, INC
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
CPSC’s disclaimer
Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.
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Sources
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
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