Low Price Pliko Switch Travel System 30-30 – For Sale
The Pliko Switch Travel System A single purchase to meet multiple needs for transporting your child infant car seat chassis and reversible stroller seat Pliko Switch Stroller Primo Viaggio Car Seat
List Price: $ 589.00
Disappointed first time mom,
As a first time mom I did all the research I could to find the perfect stroller!! living in NY almost every mom has a Bugaboo so I wanted something different, something with great colors & manageable (lightweight) & Multi uses, so I tried this! & I must say it is the WORST decision I made! I’ve had it 3 months & it squeaks SO LOUD it’s embarrassing, its rickety, & seems un sturdy, the wheels lock & it’s SOO tough 2 maneuver! The pictures & illustrations are gorgeous but this stroller SUCKS!! I have to buy another one already & my ll guy is only 3 months! Save your money here & try something else! The car seat is sturdy & the swithc option is a plus but it is entirely too heavy.. I would say with all the other options available with travel system try another! plus Peg Perego’s customer service is pretty awful.. SO I think I’ll try a new retailer all together.
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|LOVE LOVE LOVE this stroller/carseat,
This carseat is not for the weak! It is VERY heavy even without baby inside. But boy do I feel safe with my little boy inside it. The carseat is extremely easy to take in/out of the base in the car and also in/out of the stroller. The stroller is so light I can pick it up with one hand (and I’m a petite woman). We always get compliments on how cool the stroller looks, and I’m always happy to tell everyone how much we love it! Can’t wait to use it for our future children.
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|Poor construction, poor design,
The only reason I give this stroller 2 stars (instead of 1) is because I love that the larger seat clicks out to make room for the car seat and that either one (the large seat or the car seat) can face either forward or back. For the price (when we bought this a year ago), this was the only rear-facing stroller (that I’m aware of). So, I love it for that reason ONLY.
Otherwise, I HATE hate hate it and have a pit in my stomach just knowing I threw my money out the window on this thing. We simply can’t afford to buy another stroller … this one was plenty expensive and we just have to stick with it until it breaks down completely.
I’m not sure what people mean by saying this stroller folds easily and stores compactly. Maybe it folds easier and stores more compactly than a hippopotamus would? I’m sure that’s true and I’m willing to stand by anyone’s assertion that this stroller is, in fact, easier to fold and store than a hippo. BUT, I’ve had this stroller for almost a year and it has only become not-super-hard to fold because of months of practice. Months of practice have not, however, made the stroller more compact. I will say that it does fit into my trunk (and we’ve got a hybrid sedan, which as a very very small trunk), but the stroller and groceries will not fit (not easily, anyway) into the trunk at the same time.
Why in the world would any company design a stroller that is so hard to fold (impossible to do holding a baby, that’s for dang sure) or that, if kept in the car, would probably keep any one from getting hired by the local mafia? I mean, wasn’t this thing designed in Italy where people drive small cars and belong to the mafia?! Strollers need to be easy to fold and store to make room in the trunk for additional items and a quick getaway!
What I love about this system:
1. I can watch my baby (and she, me) while we go for walks
2. I can block the wind for my baby while we walk with the wind, and the stroller can block the wind when we walk against it.
3. The main seat removes to make way for the car seat.
What I hate about this system:
10. The car seat handle is hard to move from one position to another (the side buttons seems hard to push and they catch/get stuck)
9. The stroller creaks and rattles on the smoothest of surfaces.
8. The stroller takes up a lot of space even when folded (and starts to open on its own if you don’t handle it carefully with both hands)
7. The stroller is hard to fold (impossible with a baby in hand).
6. The stroller and car seat are very heavy (which I knew going into it, but still …)
5. The stroller is hard to maneuver
4. The stroller is not compatible with the pliko P3 accessories available at the time I bought it (like the rain-shield that I bought last year which was only advertised as a Pliko rain cover — there’s a universal rain shield available this year).
3. The basket beneath the stroller is VERY small compared to what I would expect…
2. But even if the basket could hold every unnecessary item I’d like to bring along with me, the effing crossbars that cover it (the bars that allow the stroller to fold, I guess) make it hard to put anything larger than a loaf of bread into the basket. Granted, you could fit 6 loaves of bread in the basket, but not all at once. And since I had hoped to use this thing as a stroller AND grocery cart at the farmer’s market on Saturdays, I know how many groceries fit into the basket. HARDLY ANY.
1. The 5-point harness for the car seat is really hard to tighten over my daughter. The straps seem to get stuck behind the car seat, where they all meet up somewhere. I’m not exactly sure what’s happening, but it can be hard to loosen the straps after a car ride and it is almost always difficult for me to get the straps pulled down to where I feel they are tight enough. This is thing-I-hate-#1 because it’s not only a massive pain in my pretty big behind, but it’s a safety issue for the #1 person in my life.
In the end, after a year of using this thing, I can say that I regret every penny I spent on it and that I hate it way more than I love it.
If you must buy it, do so at your own risk. It looks cute and does “switch” around nicely, but those are its two only pluses.
Have I mentioned that I hate this stroller system?
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