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Child Seat Alert 2026

TCS issues product warnings for nine models

The TCS is warning about nine child seat models with serious safety deficiencies. Affected are mainly cheap copies from online platforms. In crash tests, attachments fail – with dangerous consequences for children in the vehicle.
TCS gibt Produktewarnung für neun Modelle heraus.
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THE KEY POINTS IN BRIEF
• TCS product warning: Nine child seat models show serious safety deficiencies.
• High risk of injury: In crash tests, Isofix attachments or lower mountings fail.
• Legal grey area: The seats may be sold legally despite their deficiencies.

The TCS is issu­ing prod­uct warn­ings for nine child seat mod­els. Affect­ed are struc­tur­al copies sold main­ly on Asian online plat­forms. Par­ents should act imme­di­ate­ly.

TCS product warning for copies

In the cur­rent child seat test, the TCS is issu­ing prod­uct warn­ings for two child seat mod­els and sev­en struc­tural­ly sim­i­lar mod­els. The warn­ing con­cerns prod­ucts sold pri­mar­i­ly on Asian online plat­forms, as stat­ed in the offi­cial press release. The TCS strong­ly advis­es against pur­chas­ing these seats.

Already known models – and seven new warnings

In autumn 2025, the TCS had already issued prod­uct warn­ings for the Chipoli­no Olym­pus i‑Size and the Reecle 360 – also sold as ZA10 i‑Size or 946i i‑Size. Now fur­ther warn­ings fol­low. In the cur­rent test, the struc­tural­ly sim­i­lar mod­els Buf Boof Tweety Plus, Ding Aiden 360, Kidiz 360, Kid­sZone i‑Size 360, Let­tas i‑Size 360, Mio­phy i‑Size 360 and Xomax 946i showed seri­ous safe­ty prob­lems.

Online marketplaces as source: Mass production with dangerous gaps

On the trad­ing plat­form Aliba­ba, a large selec­tion of child car seats with UN Reg. 129 approval is offered. These can be cus­tomised with indi­vid­ual logos, pack­ag­ing and fab­ric cov­ers. This cre­ates a con­fus­ing and rapid­ly chang­ing mar­ket. Due to the cus­tomi­sa­tion options, the num­ber of prod­uct vari­ants and prod­uct names on var­i­ous online mar­ket­places is very large. Par­ents buy­ing cheap child seats online should there­fore be espe­cial­ly care­ful.

Kinderkraft Mink Pro 2: Child can be thrown from the seat

The Kinderkraft Mink Pro 2 baby shell detach­es from its Isofix base, the Base Mink FX2, dur­ing test­ing and is pro­pelled for­ward togeth­er with the dum­my. This is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous. In a seri­ous acci­dent, there is a sig­nif­i­cant risk of injury. Par­ents who have already bought this seat are advised to use the baby shell with­out the Base Mink FX2 and to secure it with the vehi­cle seat belt instead. Accord­ing to the TCS, the shell offers good pro­tec­tion when fit­ted this way. When installing, the cor­rect belt rout­ing and firm tight­en­ing of the belt are essen­tial.

Par­ents who pur­chased the seat with the Isofix base can con­tact the man­u­fac­tur­er direct­ly at: safety@kinderkraft.com

Seven structurally similar models: Lower attachment fails in testing

In the case of the sev­en mod­els struc­tural­ly sim­i­lar to the Reecle 360, the low­er attach­ment of the child seat fails in every test. The result is alarm­ing. Although the top of the seat shell remains con­nect­ed to the vehi­cle via the top teth­er, the shell is thrown through the vehi­cle togeth­er with the dum­my. The sub­se­quent impact against the inte­ri­or of the vehi­cle pos­es a seri­ous risk of injury.

Legal for sale despite faults – but liability possible

Here lies a cen­tral prob­lem: because the poor­ly rat­ed seat mod­els meet the legal min­i­mum require­ments, they may be sold in Europe. This sounds con­tra­dic­to­ry – but it is not. The TCS test is stricter than the legal­ly required type approval tests. The frontal impact test in the con­sumer test pro­gramme uses a high­er impact sever­i­ty that reflects today’s vehi­cle prop­er­ties – high­er than the UN Reg­u­la­tion R129 tests, which are based on vehi­cle char­ac­ter­is­tics from the 1980s.

Nev­er­the­less, there is a legal­ly rel­e­vant option for affect­ed par­ents: those who pur­chased the child seat less than two years ago may have a claim for mate­r­i­al defects against the sell­er. This would need to be exam­ined on a case-by-case basis. In case of doubt, legal advice is rec­om­mend­ed.

Manufacturers respond: Kinderkraft offers return

Kinderkraft is offer­ing cus­tomers an exchange or return of the Kinderkraft Mink Pro 2 + Base Mink FX2. The sit­u­a­tion is dif­fer­ent for the man­u­fac­tur­er of the sev­en struc­tural­ly sim­i­lar mod­els. YANGZHOU LETTAS BABY PRODUCT stat­ed that var­i­ous improve­ments have been incor­po­rat­ed into ongo­ing pro­duc­tion since Jan­u­ary to improve the sta­bil­i­ty of the seats. Whether seats already pur­chased are affect­ed remains unclear.

Full results to follow at end of May 2026

The TCS will pub­lish the com­plete child seat test with all results at the end of May 2026. Until then: avoid the mod­els named above – and exer­cise par­tic­u­lar cau­tion when buy­ing child seats online.

Which child seats is the TCS warn­ing about in 2026?

The TCS is warn­ing about: Kinderkraft Mink Pro 2 (with Base Mink FX2), Buf Boof Tweety Plus, Ding Aiden 360, Kidiz 360, Kid­sZone i‑Size 360, Let­tas i‑Size 360, Mio­phy i‑Size 360 and Xomax 946i. In autumn 2025, warn­ings were already issued for the Chipoli­no Olym­pus i‑Size and Reecle 360.

In crash tests, either the Isofix attach­ment or the low­er mount­ing fails. In a real acci­dent, the child could be thrown through the vehi­cle togeth­er with the seat.

The seats for­mal­ly meet the legal min­i­mum require­ments and may be sold in Europe. How­ev­er, the TCS test is stricter and more real­is­tic. The TCS strong­ly advis­es against pur­chas­ing them.

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Lea Gehrken

Lea Gehrken is currently studying Business Communications (BSc) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (HWZ) and, as managing director of the communications agency Crax AG, leads challenging projects at the interface of communication, strategy, and media relations. Her connection to mobility is multifaceted: as a public transport commuter between Bern and Zurich, as a recreational driver, through travel experiences with a motorhome, and as an enthusiastic racing cyclist. These personal experiences shape her perspective and flow into editorial work, communication concepts, and projects related to the mobility of the future. With a keen sense for trends and social developments, Lea Lisa Gehrken represents a new generation of communications professionals who think about mobility in a connected, sustainable, and human way. In doing so, she sometimes provides a conscious counterpoint to the “established” authors on the platform.
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