The manufacturer of a popular car seat for children and infants has urged parents to return a fix base attachment as does not meet exact safety requirements.
Recaro has said that it will replace the product free of charge.
Under scrutiny is the fix base used for the child seat Optia as well as the infant carrier Privia.
In a statement the company's UK marketing manager said: "During testing it was found that a particular production batch of the Recaro fix base does not meet the quality standards of Recaro Child Safety even though it fulfils the ECE-R44/04 approval standard.
"Under test conditions with particularly high loads that go far beyond the approval standard, products of this batch in combination with the child seat Optia may have the hooks that connect the Recaro fix base and child seat deform.
"The deformation may result in the child seat separating from the base in case of very high loads."
The company further emphasised, however, that only "production batch with serial numbers ER01000000 up to and including ER01017825," are affected, and that there are no concerns about other Recaro fix base stations.
The statement added: "For Recaro, customer safety is the top priority. For this reason the company is offering all customers who own a Recaro fix base with the corresponding serial numbers a free product exchange."
You can find more information on the replacement programme at http://safety.recaro-cs.com. There, you can also find an online tool to check if your product is affected.
