Child Seat for S2

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Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Sunday 19th November 2006
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Anyone got ( or knows where to get one) a suitable child seat (narrowish) for a standard S2. My eight year old is mortified that he can't go for a blip...

Edited by Accendit on Sunday 19th November 17:42

mnewlyn

413 posts

250 months

Monday 20th November 2006
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I've used a few different child seats in my S1 without any problems.

Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Tuesday 21st November 2006
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Thanks for replying. Can you remember the makes? I am struggling to get one that is narrow enough to fit in the "bucket shape", and allowing the booster seat not to move, with the lap belt fitting snuggly. So far, I have tried Graco, and Halfords own brand..

S Works

10,166 posts

249 months

Friday 24th November 2006
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Accendit, ask again on the forums at SELOC http://forums.seloc.org or in the Elise forum.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who take their kids out, in fact I think shangani takes his little girl out in his car in a childs seat. Might be worth dropping him a note via profile.

Accendit

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10 posts

209 months

Friday 24th November 2006
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5MUG

734 posts

263 months

Friday 24th November 2006
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Hi
we used a Britax Freeway car seat in our S2. A bit of a squash but it certainly felt secure.
Try it out first! Halfords will let you take it out to the car park.
S

Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Friday 24th November 2006
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5MUG - Thanks

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Wednesday 29th November 2006
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5MUG said:
Hi
we used a Britax Freeway car seat in our S2. A bit of a squash but it certainly felt secure.
Try it out first! Halfords will let you take it out to the car park.
S


I work for them crash testing the seats & a freeway may fit into an elise but an 8yr old will not fit into this seat. Most booster seats should fit & this would be ideal for an 8yr old.

BIG DUNC

1,918 posts

222 months

Sunday 17th December 2006
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When we bought a child seat it had to be narrow ( only for a TVR not a Lotus ).
Just find a shop you can park close to, and ask if you can take your prefered seat outside to check it fits. After a few goes we found one that suited.

Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Sunday 17th December 2006
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Cheers - Will Do !

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Monday 18th December 2006
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Can i just ask how you determin if one fits?
I have seen numorous child seats that "appear" to fit into cars but perform pethetic when it really comes to it, "crashing".

tomo2006

60 posts

212 months

Tuesday 26th December 2006
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I need to find a seat for my 9 month old daughter for an s2???

Any ideas?

tricky 100

954 posts

241 months

Wednesday 27th December 2006
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I found our Britax Renaissance seats fitted in both my old S1 's with very similar seats to an S2 , however im sure most seats would fit as their all pretty similar . I ve not tried putting the baby seat in the Exige but the toddlers are fine with a booster seat .

Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Thursday 28th December 2006
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I have tried booster seats, but it is trying to find one with a narrow enough base to fit snuggly / safely into the S1 or S2 seat, and ensuring the lap belt is in the proper posistion. The irony is an older toddler fits better in the seat without the booster, but you if under 12 or the height constraint, you are the wrong side of the law...

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Monday 1st January 2007
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& lets not forget why the law has been enforced people.

simon whittley

104 posts

217 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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I managed to get a booster seat from Mothercare which fits into the Pass seat of my S1 no problem - it's quite narrow so fits well. Best thing to do is take the car aliong and get them to try them out for size...

Accendit

Original Poster:

10 posts

209 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Cheers - Found (At Last)the CAM S135 Pony Booster from Halfords (£14.99) today (narrow base), and fits also snuggly and safely with lapbelt secure....

tomo2006

60 posts

212 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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I have just ordered a Britax Evolva 123 for my partner’s car and on the website they have a seat finder for your car I found Lotus Elise and it recommended Evolva 123... Hopefully next week I will have a S2 and I will be trying this for fitting and will let you know how I get on.

NJS25

446 posts

248 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Tried an evolva in my S2 at the weekend, was too wide at the base to sit properly, sat perched on the 'wings', not a good fit. I looked at the Britax website and it did mention that it should fit a 2000 elise, not sure what that means but S1 seats are different to early S2s, later S2s are different again.

I have tried most of the seats mentioned as 'fitting' the elise and many other besides so far none of them do!

As per the earlier post I bought a booster seat from Halfords (buy one get one free). These are a generic product and there were at least 3 different designs: 1 without arms; 1 narrow; 1 wide. The narrow one fits perfectly and has arms to allow the belt to pass through the seat as well. I have designed, but not yet made, a simple device to clip over the shoulder of the seat to allow height adjustment of the belt.

So after many years searching I am on the verge of a solution, albeit only suitable for a child 4 years plus (Group 2,3). I was unable to find any seat group 0,1 which correctly fitted the elise seat. All high back seats I tried were either:
Too wide on the base;
Too wide at the back;
Too tall (created a large void behind the seat due to the bucket shape to the elise seat).

Be safe, accept no compromises.

Regards, Neil

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Monday 22nd January 2007
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tomo2006 said:
I have just ordered a Britax Evolva 123 for my partner’s car and on the website they have a seat finder for your car I found Lotus Elise and it recommended Evolva 123... Hopefully next week I will have a S2 and I will be trying this for fitting and will let you know how I get on.



This was fitted into my s1 at work (Britax)& i can assure you that this particular seat DOES fit into the s1.