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Preschool | Home » » Chicco Toys 4 In 1 Ride On | | | | | | | Description: | | Follow baby's growth with this Sit 'N Ride Car that offers four play modes. The Rocker is suitable for small children with its stable rocking base and safety bar. The Push 'N Go has a removable footrest and practical parent handle. Push 'N Walk features a handy support for baby's first steps. The Sit 'N Ride is a powered car with an activity center that can be used in each configuration of play, or removed and played with separately. Requires 2 "AA" batteries (not included). Measures 24.5" x 15" x 33". Holds up to 110 pounds. | | | Features: | |
• Offers 4 play modes that adjust to your child?s growth: rocker, push and go, push and walk and sit 'n ride
• Electronic activity center that can be removed
• Safety features include a removable footrest and practical parent handle
• Fun and practical toy will grow with your child
• Requires 2 x AA 1.5V batteries (included)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 24.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 15.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 33.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 5.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 24.75 inches | | Package Width:
| 17.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 14.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 14.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 26 reviews |
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25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing. Not four uses out of one as marketed.Jul 19, 2007
By Dar
"Dar"
This product was not at all what we had hoped for our one year old granddaughter:
The handle is wobbly and the toy is very lightweight and tips easily. When an adult tries to push the car using the handle, the child has the steering capability instead of the adult and as a result, the car can go in circles and not where the adult intends to go. Since the long handle was supplied, it is assumed the manufacturer meant for an adult to be able to push and guide the car. However, if you tip the car back somewhat so that the wheels leave the ground and the adult can steer, the green stop at the back scrapes the ground, thus making steering of the car by an adult impossible. When using as a rocker, it rocks only slightly, not at all as a rocking car as is promoted. On the plus side, the sound effects are diverse and enjoyable. All in all, I am sorry I continued to search to find a distributer and ultimately ordered the Chicco 4 n 1 for our granddaughter. It is the most disappointing toy I have purchased for any of our grandchildren. Chicco Customer Service did not respond to complaint letter several months ago other than to say it was forwarded to another department.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Nice but needs improvementJul 24, 2007
By T. Mauldin
My son got this at 8 months. He didn't really start to enjoy the vehicle until about 12 months. I agree with the previous reviewer that it is quite difficult for an adult to steer the vehicle. There needs to be a steering lockout so that the child can not steer while an adult is pushing. Also the foot rests never stayed where they were supposed to be. They were constantly getting pushed under the car and therefore defeated the purpose.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 4-8 month old Baby loves, but for older babies highly tippy, four-in-one a jokeNov 24, 2010
By Research Mommy
I feel conflicted on how to rate the Chicco Four-in-One (Il Quattro, as it is known in Italy) ride-on toy. To explain, it has been a life saver in keeping my very physically advanced (and curious) high needs son happy and safely exploring from the time he could sit upright unassisted (four months) until he has taken his first steps (7.75 months). However, once he was a full pre-walker at 8 months (could take his first steps) but not a confident walker, the Quattro was, frankly, dangerous as it is so tippy with the sidebars on, and even when I was beside him, he found a way to sort of stand and suddenly throw himself sideways onto the sidebars and tip out onto the floor. If you have carpeting that might be okay, but I have tile in the kitchen, so it was very unnerving and he cried.
As background, my son is 99th percentile for height and weight, and has always been "double-sized" as I call him, ie. at seven months, he was the size of a 50 percentile 15 month old (31", 22 pounds). Also, as a high needs baby, he is very driven to explore his environment which is why the Quattro really helped us out before he turned into a super-strong "Bam Bam" as we laughingly call him. At the point of 8 months exactly, I would estimate that we use this toy for a total of 1.5 hours every day, way more than we were able to use the Fisher Price Jumperoo at this point: Baby felt too restricted in the Jumperoo, whereas the Quattro made him feel liberated and he could actively see things in different rooms - we used it as an opportunity to label the nouns that we passed -- "radiator", "door" etc. He loved it.
Side-bars: These are excellent and are what kept my baby in place mainly. Baby could hold onto these and feel secure. It helped him strenthen his core muscles for sitting.
Seatbelt Harness: My baby at six months figured out how to take the lower part of the velcro strap connector completely off -- oddly enough, the part that comes up through the crotch can be removed, and the baby delighted in figuring that out. Fortunately he didn't figure out how diapers attach with similar velcro-like tabs.... We took it off, and gave up on the seatbelt, because there is also the side wrap-around handles. Our baby likes to sit back and relax while we push him in any case, so it wasn't a dealbreaker for us.
Little car noises box: This is super cute, with a little accelerator sound, horn and a giggles and music button. Also, it's on the quiet side (yay). However, he found out that it could be popped out of its seating once he was 6 months old (this is a common problem, it doesn't seat securely), and then we had to set it aside because he would pull it out during each use. I would try velcro tape if I could go back in time (and have access to velcro tape during Ferie....)
Footrests: Just as others have noted, the footrests either don't stay on or when they do, turn so that they are underneath the toy, making them useless. They never worked for us, but fortunately our baby grows so fast, it was never really a big deal, he grew past needing footrests in the first month of use. Don't buy this toy if you want to use the footrests, although I always wondered if modeling clay would keep them in place....
Parent handle: Secure, I never found it to be wobbly. I never found that the Baby's potential ability to steer interfered with the parent's tip-back-and-steer-ability, and my baby is physically aggressive, let's just say. It was fine.
Seat compartment: This would have been fun, but he had no interest in this at 8 months when we moved and were forced for space considerations to leave the toy behind.
Review of the "Four-in One" aspect: To be honest, the "four-in-one" aspect of this toy didn't work for us
1. Rocker: As others have noted, it doesn't rock very much (about an inch each way) and as a rocker, I myself can't see how it could be fun. But that said, it's very stable as a rocker perhaps for a cautious baby or an infant who is working through medical intervention and needs something that is very supportive. As a four month old, my son detested it as a rocker (because it doesn't really rock), and I immediately took the rockers off, never to be used again.
2. "Push-and-go": This is how we've used it successfully. This has worked excellent for us during the the sits-unassisted stage to the first-steps stage. At first, in the four month stage, the harness helped keep him sitting upright on the toy, which continued to strengthen his sitting muscles (Note: Further to this, he was sitting up completely securely at 6 months). He also would grasp the sidebar handles on the toy, which kept him from trying to tip out. Note that the footrests were useless (see above).
3. "Push-and-walk": There's no way that we could have used this toy as a Push-and-walk before our baby had mastered walking: it is too light and there is no way to adjust tension on the wheels, it simply shoots out from in front of him. I purchased another toy for him to learn to walk with (and he refused to use anything in any case as it happened)
4. Sit n' ride: I can't comment on this, as I left this toy behind when we moved when my baby was 8 months old, at which time he showed very little interest in pushing along with his legs. But it might have worked out, actually. I suspect it's as good as the character-branded ride-on toy equivalents (which I admit, are on their own much more inexpensive....)
In summary, the sidebars help your baby develop their core sitting muscles in a way I haven't seen on other toys of its kind. My baby loved this product from four months - eight months, but as the mother, I didn't once he was seven months because he easily could tip it and he wanted to tip it to grab things on the floor. (As I write this, he is currently 10.5 months old (running around), and I've just bought him the Step2 Whisper Ride Buggy, and it's our new Quattro! (but not as a ride-on toy, obviously) He loves it: Beep Beep! (But it's a lot wider, rated for 18 months+, and it's only a two-point snap-and-click harness so no support for the slumping baby, they would need to be securely upright))
Rating: I would give this a 3.5 star if half stars were possible. I feel obligated to round up to 4, just because Baby *adored* the Quattro so much, and it worked so well in our apartment and 1.5 hours of fun a day is totally a lifesaver when you have a very active baby.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 A breakthrough for a neglected childJan 30, 2010
By Secret Reader
I could not be happier with this toy. My daughter is 2 and recently joined our family from an orphanage in Russia. The staff at her orphanage did the best they could with very little and the net result was neglect for my daughter until she came home to us. She did not play with toys at the beginning. She picked at the frayed carpet. It was incredibly sad to see a baby hope to amuse herself with frayed carpet because she had never had the benefit of a family's love and attention This 4 in 1 Ride On was the first real `toy' that she became attached to. She loves the music from the steering wheel and she was able to master straddling the car and race it about the house. Now she zooms around and shrieks with delight as we chase her and applaud her efforts. You can't imagine our relief to see her breaking free from her early life of neglect. This toy is fun, accessible, stable, and tough. I highly recommend it.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great and Versatile!Jan 03, 2007
By Sara
This is a well-rounded vehicle. It lasts a long time and goes through many of your babies stages.
What I like best, compared to some other models, is the side bars and the seat belt. Baby can't fall out (within reason) and for when the baby is young and not always big enough to fit sitting on it, it gives extra protection for sliding.
This seams a lot safer than another brand I had with my older son. You still need to watch your baby though, it will sometimes tip when being pushed and climbed on---use your brain!!
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