Car Seat Sun Shade Cover - Keep Your Baby's Carseat at a Cooler Temperature - Covers and Blocks Out Heat & Sun - Protection from UV Sunlight - Mommy's Helper

This product was a life saver when I lived in a hot climate. It kept my child’s buckles from becoming hot. This kept the car seat several degrees cooler. I did not find it hard to use. And it fit well over our bigger car seat. It was durable enough to pass onto a friend when I was done using it.

This product is everything. I live in the southwest where it can get to 116 degrees in summer and I have to park my car outside. I was dreading switching my baby from the carry carseat to the convertible carseat because with the carry one, you bring it in the house and it never heats up. I was so worried about the sun beating down on the carseat and knowing how hot it gets for me, I couldn't imagine it for the baby. I bought this before it got really hot out and have been using it all summer. I absolutely love it. We have the Graco convertible turn to me carseat and it covers the whole seat portion. I can get it on with one hand while holding my baby and getting it off is even easier. It makes such a difference and keeps the buckles from getting ridiculously hot. While the chair does still get hot, it's so much more bearable and I don't feel as guilty putting my baby into the seat. If I want to add extra protection I throw a blanket or towel into the seat covering the buckles etc, and then put this on and that helps too. Everyone should have one. Not only for the heat but to protect from sun exposure that can degrade and damage the fabric and plastic of the seat!

I'm a little baffled by the reviews that say this product doesn't work. It does exactly what it is supposed to do: reflects the sun's rays and keeps the surface of the car seat from heating up too much. We used to use towels on our car seats; I feel that this sun shade works better, both because it covers the seat more fully and because it reflects light better. Yes, the car seat is still a bit warm on a hot day, but it is cool enough to be safe for my child.These covers stretch a lot. The shade covers my Chicco Nextfit very well, but it also covers the Diono Radian 100 in my husband's car. (We got the two pack of sunshades, just for the record.) The cover has to stretch more to cover the Radian, but it does cover it.The one complaint that has some truth to it is that it DOES take two hands to cover a car seat. In this respect, using an old beach towel is easier: you may be able to just flip a towel over the car seat with one hand and go. (Actually, I CAN'T do that, but maybe you can; I am clumsy!) So, yeah, it can be difficult to safely control your child while you cover up his/her seat. But I think the better protection you get from a sun shade is worth the extra work of covering up the car seat.Bottom line: these shades are really quite inexpensive. I don't know why you wouldn't want one, to be honest, especially if you live in a hot, sunny climate.

Works nicely, it does help with the heatI put a pillow to help absorb more of the heat

I bought 2 of these. They work great. The car seats still get hot, but not burn my kid hot. I can put the kids straight into their seats without having to cool the car first.To address some of the complaints in other reviews:- yes the car seat still gets hot, but what do you expect, the inside of a car gets upwards of 200° in 90°+ heat. But it keeps from making the metal skin burning hot.-the complaints about the material being cheap. What do people expect, it's $7. It does have 2 layers; the reflective and a thin fabric, but you still have to be careful.-the inconvenience and difficulty of putting it on while juggling kids: again, did you not think about how it would get put on before you bought it. It doesn't come with elves to do the work for you. And it's for car seats which means you have small children. You have to adjust accordingly; after I get the kids into the house I go back out and put the covers on. If we are running errands, I have the kids sit in the front seat while I put them on.Overall I'm happy to have these cover for the summer. I live in an area where I only need them for the summer months so I don't need them to last long. I'll buy new ones next summer.

It helps keep the car seat cool, but not as much as I had hoped. Depending on the size of your car and car seat, it can be challenging to get the cover on and have it stay in place.