Thread: baby seats on D2 - dilema - will 3 fit?

Has your D2 got the anchor points for the restraints in the back cargo area, if so how many

Not the rings, they are cargo tie down points.

This is where the seats will be anchored too and depending on how many you have, will depend on how many you can fit.

Baz.

I am not to sure if you would fit three seats across the second row, however there is three anchor points in my D2.

There is one for the centre position on the roof above the rear door and the other two, left and right anchor points are actually part of the disco seats themselves. They are on the backs about half way down.

I have two of the full height booster seats in the car and it does not look like a third of any kind would fit, unless you could use atleast one of the very small sit on boosters that have no back etc., but then these do not clip into the vehicle anywhere and may not be suitable with the new legislation.

Cheers,

CJT

Never put baby seats in a Discovery, but I fit three - two Royales and a Compaq - in both the Defender and our Subaru Outback. Now have two Infa-something boosters with Compaq between them instead.

If you are using boosters you might want to look into seat belt extension straps, it'd make strapping into the booster a lot less acrobatic. I'll get to them one day, but four of them is a bit of a whack to the wallet at one go.

Simon

Thanks all for the replies.

I can fit two baby seats, one forward and one rear facing as well as a high back booster seat ok with no need for extra extension straps. The booster seat unfortunately has to go as legislation states that a child under the age of 4years needs to be in a appropriate seat with an inbuilt harness, which the booster doesn't...

I think i'll just need to make a trip to the baby store and take some measurements width wise factoring in the existing seat widths.... i'll post my findings here as I am sure this 'may' help someone else out in future :-?

Cheers,
Lp

Biggest issue i have found with child seats in the D2 are the wheel arches at the edge of the rear seat which sit slightly higher than the seat itself.

With some child seats you cannot move the seat far enough over to the edge.

Originally Posted by landyprincess

Hi All,


Unfortunately this means that we will need to pack away our 2year olds booster seat (gonna be fun explaining that to her)

Lp

I hear you on that! We are going to have the same issues.

That was exactly the problem that I found, and annoying at that too!

Originally Posted by grumpybastard

Biggest issue i have found with child seats in the D2 are the wheel arches at the edge of the rear seat which sit slightly higher than the seat itself.

With some child seats you cannot move the seat far enough over to the edge.

I have the same problem too but luckily i think the regs are different up here in NSW i have a 8 month old, a five year old, and another on the way. we found with the second that the baby seat was a tight squeeze behind the front seats as both the misses and myself are around 6ft tall so gonna put the rear facing seat in the middle next time i think