Suitable Child seats for Monaro VXR

[Terzo123]

Hi

I'm currently struggling to find a suitable child seat which fits the rear of my VXR

My wife has a "B1" approved isofix seat in her car. Would this fit the Monaro safely and where would the top tether fix too?

The Owners manual doesn't mention what type of isofix seat is suitable, and most of the car seats manufacturers don't seem to list the Monaro

Seems a bit of a mine field. Any help would be appreciated

Stevie

[007 VXR]

Use the Recaro sport in mine

[Raggyman]

I just have a Maxi Cosi, and it works really well...can also really easily pull it in and out..

Bought it at Hafrauds, using Quidco to do a store collect and saved even more money on it.

www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_712511_langId_-1_categoryId_165763

[V88Dicky]

I occasionally transfer the kiddy seat from my Fiesta into the Monaro if I want to take the daughter out and scare her

It's a Britax Evolva 123.

I had to buy an extra buckle to make the belt fit, but it's perfectly safe.

[melchett]

As you have a 6.0 VXR, you should have two ISOFIX seating positions on the rear seats. Either of these should acommodate your child seat. What child seat do you have specifically? (make, model). The whole point of ISOFIX is they they all fit! Any ISOFIX child seat should fit any ISOFIX vehicle.

The aussies are required to fit top tethers as well as ISOFIX anchorages to their vehicles so you should have a poke around on the parcel shelf and behind the head restraint. It is posssible that they were not fitted to UK vehicles, but this is a long shot. I will have a look at mine to see if I can find them.

Seeing as you already have ISOFIX anchorages, it would be stupid not to use them.

[Terzo123]

Well i tried the Britax isofix seat out of the wifes car and it seems to work well.

I found the top tether just behind the rear headrests.

Thanks for the replies, was staring to worry

[melchett]

I just popped out and found them myself, the top tethers are a bit tricky to access so make sure that the the tether is clipped in correcctly to the vehicle. Give it a mega hard pull just to be sure.

I had a look in the vehicle handbook and it does not even mention ISOFIX, this is a poor show on behlaf of VX. Even worse is the VX child seat that they recommend in there, it is a complete piece of crap.

[Terzo123]

melchett said:

I just popped out and found them myself, the top tethers are a bit tricky to access so make sure that the the tether is clipped in correcctly to the vehicle. Give it a mega hard pull just to be sure.

I had a look in the vehicle handbook and it does not even mention ISOFIX, this is a poor show on behlaf of VX. Even worse is the VX child seat that they recommend in there, it is a complete piece of crap.

Yup, not a good show, the wife phoned the local Vauxhall dealer to see what they could recommend, the female on the other line couldn't find the model of car and kept asking if it was a Movano Van.

Anyway at least i've found a seat that fits well.

[melchett]

Whatever you do, dont ask a dealer for advice. I phoned a dealer once asking about ISOFIX and they said "what is ISOFIX?"

In my experience they are completely naive about child protection and at worst cretinous and completely wrong. They have to sell inferior products, like the one in the VX manual, and most of them add 50% on to the price of a child seat. I have seen the Britax Duo Plus ISOFIX available for about £170 from some shops, whereas a dealer will charge £350 for exactly the same seat!

[granjuiceymoose]

This was a problem for me at first an I went through every car seat in Halfords as the future of the car depended on it. In the end I got the maxi-cosi one (cabrio?) where it's a base that sits in the seat an is secured through the seat belt with the seat just clamped onto this. It's a bit awkward as the seat needs to be in place before baby can go in but hey the Ro becomes a family car

She lives on

Just thought that was for a new born not sure for toddler etc that's still to come

Edited by granjuiceymoose on Tuesday 8th February 14:18

[melchett]

granjuiceymoose said:

Just thought that was for a new born not sure for toddler etc that's still to come

Edited by granjuiceymoose on Tuesday 8th February 14:18

Try and keep them in a rearward facing seat for as long as possible!