diff --git a/R/meta-method-converged.R b/R/meta-method-converged.R
index 5fbfb019..a72d65f3 100644
--- a/R/meta-method-converged.R
+++ b/R/meta-method-converged.R
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ lcMetaConverged = function(method, maxRep = Inf) {
 #' @rdname lcMetaMethod-interface
 setMethod('fit', 'lcMetaConverged', function(method, data, envir, verbose) {
   attempt = 1L
+
   repeat {
     enter(verbose, level = verboseLevels$fine, suffix = '')
     model = fit(getLcMethod(method), data = data, envir = envir, verbose = verbose)
@@ -44,6 +45,12 @@ setMethod('fit', 'lcMetaConverged', function(method, data, envir, verbose) {
       return (model)
     } else {
       attempt = attempt + 1L
+      seed = sample.int(.Machine$integer.max, 1L)
+      set.seed(seed)
+      if (has_lcMethod_args(getLcMethod(method), 'seed')) {
+        # update fit method with new seed
+        method@arguments$method = update(getLcMethod(method), seed = seed, .eval = TRUE)
+      }
 
       if (is.infinite(method$maxRep)) {
         cat(verbose, sprintf('Method failed to converge. Retrying... attempt %d', attempt))
@@ -53,3 +60,13 @@ setMethod('fit', 'lcMetaConverged', function(method, data, envir, verbose) {
     }
   }
 })
+
+#' @rdname lcMetaMethod-interface
+setMethod('validate', 'lcMetaConverged', function(method, data, envir = NULL, ...) {
+  callNextMethod()
+
+  validate_that(
+    has_lcMethod_args(method, 'maxRep'),
+    is.count(method$maxRep)
+  )
+})
diff --git a/man/lcMetaMethod-interface.Rd b/man/lcMetaMethod-interface.Rd
index 0986c033..f0d763cd 100644
--- a/man/lcMetaMethod-interface.Rd
+++ b/man/lcMetaMethod-interface.Rd
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 \alias{postFit,lcMetaMethod-method}
 \alias{validate,lcMetaMethod-method}
 \alias{fit,lcMetaConverged-method}
+\alias{validate,lcMetaConverged-method}
 \title{lcMetaMethod methods}
 \usage{
 \S4method{compose}{lcMetaMethod}(method, envir = NULL)
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@
 \S4method{validate}{lcMetaMethod}(method, data, envir = NULL, ...)
 
 \S4method{fit}{lcMetaConverged}(method, data, envir, verbose)
+
+\S4method{validate}{lcMetaConverged}(method, data, envir = NULL, ...)
 }
 \description{
 lcMetaMethod methods
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-meta-methods.R b/tests/testthat/test-meta-methods.R
index 36d8c808..09f906fa 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-meta-methods.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-meta-methods.R
@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 method = lcMethodLMKM(Value ~ Assessment, id = 'Traj', time = 'Assessment', nClusters = 2)
 
+setClass('lcMethodConv', contains = 'lcMethod')
+
+lcMethodConv = function(
+  response = 'Value',
+  time = 'Assessment',
+  id = 'Traj',
+  nClusters = 1,
+  nAttempts = 1,
+  ...
+) {
+  mc = match.call.all()
+  mc$Class = 'lcMethodConv'
+  do.call(new, as.list(mc))
+}
+
+setMethod('preFit', 'lcMethodConv', function(method, data, envir, verbose) {
+  convAttempts <<- 0
+  callNextMethod()
+})
+
+setMethod('fit', 'lcMethodConv', function(method, data, envir, verbose) {
+  convAttempts <<- convAttempts + 1
+  lcModelPartition(
+    data = data,
+    response = method$response,
+    trajectoryAssignments = rep(1, uniqueN(data[[method$id]])),
+    converged = convAttempts >= method$nAttempts
+  )
+})
+
+
 test_that('specify converged', {
   metaMethod = lcMetaConverged(method)
   expect_s4_class(metaMethod, 'lcMetaConverged')
@@ -40,3 +71,37 @@ test_that('meta converged fit', {
     model = latrend(metaMethod, testLongData)
   })
 })
+
+test_that('meta converged fit until converged', {
+  metaMethod = lcMetaConverged(lcMethodConv(nAttempts = 2), maxRep = 3)
+
+  # workaround because testthat::expect_message() is failing to capture the output...
+  out = capture.output({
+    model = latrend(metaMethod, testLongData, verbose = TRUE)
+  }, type = 'message')
+  expect_match(paste0(out, collapse = '\n'), regexp = 'attempt 2')
+  expect_true(converged(model))
+})
+
+test_that('meta converged fit always fails', {
+  metaMethod = lcMetaConverged(lcMethodConv(nAttempts = 3), maxRep = 2)
+  expect_warning({
+    model = latrend(metaMethod, testLongData)
+  }, regexp = 'Failed to obtain converged')
+
+  expect_false(converged(model))
+})
+
+test_that('meta converged fit with seed on first attempt', {
+  metaMethod = lcMetaConverged(lcMethodConv(nAttempts = 1, seed = 13))
+  model = latrend(metaMethod, testLongData)
+
+  expect_equal(getLcMethod(model)$method$seed, 13)
+})
+
+test_that('meta converged fit different seed on second attempt', {
+  metaMethod = lcMetaConverged(lcMethodConv(nAttempts = 2, seed = 13))
+  model = latrend(metaMethod, testLongData)
+
+  expect_true(getLcMethod(model)$method$seed != 13)
+})