Graco

SnugRide 35 Lite LX

Everything below about the Graco SnugRide 35 Lite LX traces to a filing or a manual: NHTSA's record holds no notice naming this seat as of September 11, 2026, and its outgrow limits come off the manual edition, page cited.

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What NHTSA's record says

No NHTSA notice names this seat as of the date below. That is an absence of a match in NHTSA's record, not a clean bill of health.

NHTSA's recall record retrieved September 11, 2026.

Campaigns that do not reach this seat, and why

Campaign 14C004000

That campaign covers units built between July 2010 and May 2013. This model did not exist until July 2019, so no unit of it was built inside that window.

Introduction date from manual edition NWL0000993719A, printed 07/19. The campaign at NHTSA.

This is a conclusion about two dates, not a judgement about the seat. Check the date on your own label against the window above and you have redone it.

Does this apply to your unit?

A campaign covers a production window, not a model name. Two things off the seat itself settle it, and you already have both.

  1. The model number. Printed on the same label as the date, usually as a letter-and-digit code.
  2. The date of manufacture. On the back of the carrier shell. The manual calls it the date label and puts the model number on the same sticker, so one photograph of the back of the seat carries both things we need.

This page does not compute an answer for you. Send us the label photo and we will read it against the filing, or bring both to a certified technician who can hold the seat.

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Outgrow limits, from the manual

Rear-facing · 32 in / 35 lb

This child restraint must only be used with children weighing between 4-35 lb (1.8-16 kg) and 32 in (81 cm) or less.

Manual edition NWL0000993719A (07/19), page 12. Read the edition.

Rear-facing headroom

Top of head MUST BE AT LEAST 1 in (2.5 cm) BELOW the top of the car seat.

Manual edition NWL0000993719A (07/19), page 48. Read the edition.

We transcribe the limits from the manual edition and cite the page. Fit is not computable from a height and a weight, so there is no predicted month here and there will not be one.

How it works

  1. Send us the label photo.
  2. We check it.
  3. You get the answer.

Organizations: send us a roster, we check every unit, you get the applicability file.

Published figures, with sources. Not our claims.

46%

of car seats and booster seats observed in 2011 had at least one defined misuse

NHTSA National Child Restraint Use Special Study (DOT HS 812 157), 2015

22.9%

of children transitioned to a booster seat too soon

National Digital Car Seat Check Form (NDCF), reported by AAA, 2024

Questions worth asking first

Do I need the model number?

No. Send a photo of the label and we read the model number and the date off it. If the label is worn or gone, that is worth knowing on its own, and it is one of the things a certified technician can sort out with the seat in front of them.

You found no recall. Does that mean my seat is fine?

No, and the difference matters. What we can say is that no NHTSA notice names this seat as of the date at the bottom of this page. That is an absence of a match in a public record, not a clean bill of health, and it says nothing about how this particular seat was used, stored, or repaired. It also has a shelf life: a notice filed next month would change the answer.

Where is the date on this seat?

On the back of the carrier shell. The manual calls it the date label, and it carries the model number on the same sticker, so one photograph of the back of the seat gives us both. It is printed as a month and a year. If it has worn off, a certified technician will know the other places to look on this model.

Does a recall mean my seat is unsafe?

Not on its own. A recall says a defect was found across a range of production and that a free remedy exists. Whether it reaches your unit depends on the date on your label, and whether it has already been handled depends on the seat's history. Where a campaign does exist, the remedy comes from the manufacturer and costs you nothing.

Can you tell me whether this used seat is safe?

No, and nobody can do that from a label alone. We can tell you what the public record says about this model, what the manual sets as the limits, and which parts of the seat's history are missing. We cannot see whether it was in a crash, how it was stored, or whether a part has been swapped, and those things matter. A certified technician can hold the actual seat. That is a different job from ours and it is not a lesser one.

Which document did you read?

For the limits, manual edition NWL0000993719A, printed 07/19, with the page number beside each line. For recalls, NHTSA's public record, checked on the date shown at the bottom. Every line above traces to one of those two. If a line has no citation next to it, read that as something we have not checked yet rather than something we found nothing on.

Do you sell seats?

No. We do not sell seats, we take no commission on any remedy, and we are not affiliated with any manufacturer, with NHTSA, or with the National Child Passenger Safety Board. Where a campaign does exist for a seat, the free fix comes from the brand.

What happens after the demo?

Twenty minutes, one seat or one roster, and you see what the record does and does not say about it. Nothing is installed and nothing is signed. If you would rather we stopped there, we stop there.

Who this is for

Caregivers

You have the label; we have the manual and the public record, and this page shows what each of them actually says about this seat.

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Certified technicians

Every line here carries its manual edition and page, or the date the public record was checked, so you can check our reading against the source instead of taking our word for it.

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Insurers and health plans

Per-unit applicability is the difference between contacting every family you cover and contacting the ones whose units are actually named in a filing. Built to sit alongside your existing recall and outreach process, not replace it.

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Manufacturers

This is your product seen from the owner's side: which unit, which label, which production window, and what an owner can tell from the seat in their car. Built to sit alongside your existing recall and outreach process, not replace it.

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Holophote is a small independent project in the Bay Area, and it is worth being plain about what that means today. We check one unit at a time against NHTSA's record. We transcribe the limits from the manual edition and cite the page. That is the whole of it. The part still being built is the one that matters most and is the least impressive to describe: a maintained record of a family's seats, held rather than sold, so that a campaign filed next spring can still find the family it belongs to. Where we have not read the document, this page says so instead of guessing, and it will keep saying so until someone reads it.

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Twenty minutes. We walk one seat, or one roster, end to end and you see exactly what the record does and does not say about it.

Booking by email for now. The scheduler is being set up. Write to us and we will send back two or three times that work.

Prefer email? Write to hello@holophote.com and we will find a time. Tell us which of these you are: caregiver, CPST, insurer or health plan, or manufacturer.