Child Seats - URGENT

[The Jackel]

Dear All,

Any body no of a good car seat that fits in a monaro for a 5 month old (rear facing)- I have real problems finding one.

The seat belt isn't long enough to go around his standard rocker seat.

Your urgent help would be appreciated.

[V8HSV]

I don't think there is much out there untill you get to 9 month+, surely a Vauxhall dealer should be able to help?

I recc the Recaro seat as it goes from 9 months to 9 years, about £200 from Halfords and the best child seat I have seen & used.

Not much help now I know.

[Twin Turbo]

It might be an idea to post this under General Gassing. I remember someone asked a similar question many months ago and someone replied with a link to a car seat specialist.

Hope you get it sorted!

I can't believe how big baby seats are! Our new-born's seat only just fits in the back of our Alfa 156 Sportwagen!!!!!!!

[Bobby Dazzler]

Have you tried a travel system type set-up?

We bought ours from Mothercare, and consisted of a pushchair that can have the carrier latched on to. You then have a base in the car that the carrier also latches on to. The theory being you can switch from car to pushchair to car again without waking the baby.

Anyway the reason it may be of use is the car's seatbelt doesn't need to wrap around the carrier, but only it's base.

I think you can get cheap ones for around £120 and you can spend as much as you like. We bought an extra base for our other car, but only used it a handful of times. Highly recomended.

We used ours up until our daughter was 12 months or so. Now got ISO-fix. HTH

>> Edited by Bobby Dazzler on Thursday 9th December 11:18