Baby Seat in 2012 Puma

[DefenderJim]

So with the first born now well on his way I thought it was time to think about how we are going to travel with him. The Puma (2012 110) manual just says car seats must be properly secured and to ensure child seat is appropriate..yada yada, no information on mounting points.

So question is, does the Puma have any or do we need to get some put in?

Cheers
Jim

[gng1]

Congratulations! The Defender has no child restraint anchor points. You'll have to have them fitted and certified as a modification. We've done it to two pumas now. In the first one, a 5 seater, Opposite Lock installed a CRAB bar across about a foot from the top back of the rear seats. The anchor points were on the bar. This did reduced boot space but it was fairly easy to unbolt the bar when required. We just traded that vehicle in for a 7 seater and obviously a CRAB bar would not be an option as it would be in the way of the third row passengers. Auto Extras in Brisbane installed anchor points instead of the two load hooks and another one on the floor of the load space in the middle for the middle seat. That cost a bit extra because they said it required extra work to reinforced it underneath whereas i gather they were prepared to certify the load hooks (replaced with child points) without further modification. We got the centre one installed because we had to use the centre seat on our last Defender to fit the baby capsule. It was just a bit to long to fit behind the passenger seat. Hope this helps! Good luck!

[p38arover]

Do the current seats have ISOfix child seat mounts like later Landies? If so, you'd have to import a seat as they aren't approved here as yet. What about the latest rear folding seats in the load compartment?

[DefenderJim]

Sorry probably should have mentioned, mine is only a 5 seater.

[Samblers]

You need the CRAB bar. Search my posts. We've got two gremlins in the back of our 7-seater. Supply/install/certify cost me $600 here in WA

Congrats!

[Babs]

Is it a late model, it's not approved but definitely more than strong enough is the tie down points, and they line up right in the middle of the seat perfect.

I've had mine checked out and they are reinforced as standard, though I have not paid a ridiculous amount of money for someone to certify it. They definitely are strong enough.

And before anyone gives the Yada yada heaps of guys are using them in silence, and I did get professional opinions before I settled to restrain my children with them. later model vehicles may be different????

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[gng1]

Don't get a CRAB bar if you can get load point and/or floor points certified. The bar gets in the way. Here is a pic of the point installed in lieu of the load hook. fully certified and legal - here in Queensland. It would have been relatively inexpensive as well. We paid about $700 all up but most of that related to the centre floor point installation. For some reason the pic is sideways and I can only do one pic. I'll do a separate post with a pic of the centre point.

[gng1]

And here is the centre point...

[gng1]

Do the current seats have ISOfix child seat mounts like later Landies?

You're kidding, aren't you?!

[gcl381]

Hi Jim

I'm waiting for a new puma to have child restraints fitted at the moment & was pretty pleased to hear that the dealer I was buying from had organised mounting points on the back of the rear seats for a previous customer. I'm buying through landrover macarthur and I'm pretty sure Jax Tyres are the mob doing the fitting (funny that I tyre place would be involved in the work but there you go). I've had to pay for an engineering certificate as well but I reckon it's worth it to avoid having a bar across the back. Once I pick her up on the 8th I'll post some picks if you like. I'm hoping it's a neat job.

Cheers,

Gav