Britax Marathon ClickTight — expiration

Convertible car seat.

Britax ties the Marathon ClickTight to a 10-year useful life — retired ClickTight convertibles that Britax's expiration guide does not list — the Marathon ClickTight and the Advocate/Boulevard ClickTight, read from their own Britax user guides (rev. 05.22.

To prevent injury due to deterioration or hidden damage, discontinue use of this child seat if it is older than ten years or has been in a moderate or severe crash (see below).

Britax's own wording — source, checked 2026-08-27.

Read your label against the formula

Find the date of manufacture on the seat's label, then add 10 years — the same month. As Britax applies it:

Manufactured inReaches its stated life in
2019 2029 (same month as your label)
2020 2030 (same month as your label)
2021 2031 (same month as your label)
2022 2032 (same month as your label)
2023 2033 (same month as your label)
2024 2034 (same month as your label)
2025 2035 (same month as your label)
2026 2036 (same month as your label)

Where the date is on this seat

The user guide's parts diagram lists the label as item 19, under the seat cover. The warning bullet adds: "See Serial Number and Manufactured Date Label on child seat (pages 2- 3)."

Serial Number & Manufactured Date Label (under seat cover)

Source, checked 2026-08-27.

1 2 3
Typical places the date-of-manufacture label sits on this kind of seat:
  1. Underside of the seat base
  2. Side of the shell, below the cover edge
  3. Back of the shell

Recalls

Run the label's model number and date of manufacture through NHTSA's recall lookup — it is the authoritative record for any seat, this one included.

The label on your seat is authoritative; this page is a reference.