Cosco Scenera 22123 Harness Threading Instructions
on March 31, 2010 at 10:45 pmOK, this is way off for me. I have yet to post instructions on how to rebuild ANYTHING….
While shopping today with our ‘almost three year old’ boy, he and I overindulged on popcorn, hotdogs, and cherry Icees. Yes, I need to grow up and be the parent.
After a fun-filled spree we ran to the van in the nice 72 degree weather.
Four minutes after he was strapped into his car seat, I heard that unmistakable moist splat sound. Yep, I turned around and he had that confused look on his face, “what the hell just came out of my mouth and all over me?!” look.
I was a little proud at that instant. I’m a wimp and when it comes time for me to expel any toxins my body deems intolerable, I make a scene of it. My son was cool, calm, and quiet. Me? As my wife puts it when I rarely ‘ralph’…. “my God, no one throws up as loud as you do”.
He just stared at me for a few moments, then looked at his messy hand (I guess he tried to hold it in?), shirt, pants, shoes, back of the passenger seat, carseat (harness and all), side door panels… well… anyway…
I keep a roll of paper towels in the van, so I was sorta prepared. I did my best to calm him down as I attempted to clean up his accident while gagging so loud, a man in handicapped parking limped over from his van to make sure I was all right. Wife was still in the store at the register. Naturally. When there’s a baby clean up, she’s not at her post.
Well, the car seat was trashed. Ray-Ray had moved on and now upset because he was hungry again. Wife showed up, didn’t notice anything because she was on her cell phone talking to her sister about borrowing a Cricket or something for scrapbooking, blah blah blah.
We got home and quickly took the nasty carseat apart and threw all the parts in the washing machine (the ones that weren’t attached), along with Ray-Ray’s clothing, and tossed our hungry baby in the tub.
An hour or so later all was clean. And un-assembled. Oh no. “We DO have the manual to this thing, right? I have no idea how to put it back together?” My wife started griping about how we’re still living out of boxes and blah blah blah.
Oh, yes. There’s Google. 15 minutes later. Nothing. Their company website was NO HELP, but it looked nice. Great use of Flash. Anyhoo…
From what I could tell in my searches, our Cosco Scenera 22123 model no longer exists. Wow, we only bought it new about 2 years ago. Nothing. No manuals, no YouTube videos on how to re thread the harness, rebuild it from scratch, nothing. BUT there were lots of forums begging for help with my same challenge.
I decided to just use logic. I know, that only works for chicks and Vulcans… but that damn car seat dared me. I had to face my fears and get after it. Deep breath.
By the time I got back upstairs, my wife had it all rebuilt. She found the manual. Google sucked and so did I. But, I was allowed to put the cleaned, rebuilt, fresh car seat back in the van myself. So there.
Being the kinda guy I am, I decided to help troubled others that are still standing their with that single strap in their hands wondering what to do next.
OK, all your parents who own a Cosco Scenera 22123 Car Seat and had to take it apart to clean it or replace the strap or whatever… I’ve scanned in the last few pages of the Instruction Manual (man, those two words are painful to type, much less say) so you can download it (PDF file) and get busy. My wife said it only took her 10 minutes to put it back together. Which, of course is bulls##t. I was on Google for at least 15 minutes trying to find out how to fix it first.
But after looking over the pages, it really isn’t so bad. It’s just a lot of snaking the same belt through many slots (and we all know how fun that can be).
Here is the re-harnessing instructions from the Eng. 4358-3614D manual. I also scanned in the REPLACEMENT PARTS order form. It has a fax number, but looks kinda cheezy to me. It’s a safe download from my CrashKelly.com site. The url is:
http://crashkelly.com/Cosco-Scenera-22123-Harness-Instructions.pdf
Good luck with that project, and post a comment if it was any help or if it just confused you more. I may be able to talk my wife into stopping by your place and reassembling it for you, however it would be cheaper to try it yourself first. And she’s got a hectic schedule.
Oh, one last thing… recycled cherry Icees, hotdogs, and stale popcorn blend in well with beige/brown car seats. If you can tolerate the smell.
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>During the drive home yesterday, one kid peed her pants, and the other threw up four times. My husband pulled the car seats apart to clean them and left a pile of parts for me to reassemble this morning before school. He didn't even include all the parts, but fortunately we kept the parts from big sister's car seat when she started using it as a booster seat, and I was able to scrape together a full set. I had no clue what to do with it, because I was washing kids when he pulled the straps out, and of course Google and Cosco are still useless for these instructions. Thank you so much for taking pity on the rest of us!
>Thank you! As you said couldn't find instructions thru the manufacturer and my granddaughters was made in Aug 2009!
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
>I actually found your site while looking for the replacement parts list… why the heck doesn't their site provide any of this crap!? Trying to figure out if it's worth it to order new parts (the kids apparently ate the plastic pieces or fed them to the dog while I was washing the cover… again…) But Target's got car seats for $35 this week!!
>I was foolish enough to think I would remember how to put our car seat back together after I washed the cover!!! Thanks so much for posting the instructions!!! You made my day : )
>After washing my daughters bug juice & chocolate stained carseat I realized that I was either missing several pieces of what used to be the complete set, or I had no idea what I was doing (probably the latter of the two) I looked online for what seemes an eternity and came up with nothing..That is, until I came upon your sight. I want to thank you so much for saving me the money that I was about to have to spend on another replacement.
>Thank You so much for this Manual! I have been trying for 2 days to put the straps back in my granddaughters car seat to use for my grandson now. Couldn't find the manual and nothing online.
Charlotte
>OMG all I can say is thank you! I do believe after 2 hours of useless searching you are the only person who has such valuable information. You Rock and thanks again. I literally could not have done it without your instructions. It just baffles me that it only took aprox 2 minutes to tear it apart….
Sabrina*
>haha, classic… I've been there and done that as well… for future reference, when you take those things apart and its time to put them back together you can do one of 2 things…
1. Heap all the parts together in a big pile and bang on them and mash them together until they go back together OR
2. Go to the store and buy a new one 🙂
>So, I printed the instructions (which print lovely)and got right to work in putting my carseat back together (because I was too busy dry-heaving to notice how I took it apart). It took only 20 minutes from print to putting it completely together and back in the car better than it was before. I'm embarrassed to admit I needed instructions- it was that easy. But with- out the instructions, I wouldn't even know where to start. So, thanks again for the post, and thank your wife for me, for saving the manual (like I should have). I've saved the printout, and I'm saving this in my favorites…just in case.
Thanks, again
YJ in Utah
>You're a god send! Like you, my kid exploded in the care,yesterday afternoon. Luckily, I knew she was sick. I was recieved a call from Daycare and just as I pulled in the drive way at home, she let it all out. I was somewhat prepared with a blanket and a towel draped across her, but it spilled into the seat. Which of course I had to wash. And who knew there was way more simple way to tear it apart? So, now it's time to put it together. Also, like you, I found zero help on the Cosco Website- or google for that matter- except for this site- amazing I stumbled acrossed it. The carseat you have is not the one I have, but it's close enough and your scanned instructions are the only instructions known to man, apparently. THANK YOU for you and your scanner! Color, nonetheless! I haven't tried putting it together yet, but these pages give me hope that I might be able to say I know what I'm doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your post!
-YJ, in Utah
>I'm finally past the car seat stage (after having surprise baby #4 at the age of 40) – but I had to comment because this post was too funny. And yes, I've had to do the take the car seat apart and wash everything drill. Those things are so much fun to put back together. Kind of like a root canal.
>bwahahahahaha!! why do i find this entire story hilarious?! andy has a two year old! andy has a two year old (yes, in a sing-song voice).
i hope you learned something from this experience. mainly, don't overfeed the animals. you put popcorn, hotdogs and icees in a 2 year old's belly, you're gonna get puke in your van. simple physics.
oh, and if that ever happened to me (and it did, decades ago) the carseat would be history. i've been known to throw out vomit or poop-laden baby items for the sake of not having to deal with it.
enjoy every minute, sweetie. they grow up so fast. bwahahahaha!!!!!!!
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