child seats in a '90

[hot66]

Has anyone used child seats in the back of a 90?

I am looking at buying a landrover & my wife would prefer a 90 to a 110. Obviously a 110 is straight forward for child seats but with the new laws on booster seats etc is a 90 suitable?

[greenlandy]

Have a look at exmoortrims website they do a forward facing seat for the back of 90/110's. If you go the 110csw route i'd still replace the centre row with some after market seats.

[hot66]

thanks

Just had a word with them & they do not recommend those seats to be used with child seats. They did say they are working on a child seat friendly solution though

[greenlandy]

Before I rebuilt my 110 I had front seats in the middle row. I removed the middle row seats and frame assembly and got a local engineering firm to knock up some seat boxes. I'm sure that www.foleyspecialistvehicles.co.uk/ do something similiar with their 130 sation wagons as well it might be worth speaking to them.

[hot66]

I think I'll try & search out a good 110 over the next couple of months. I think it will be an easier vehical to live with re. kids & their seats

[greenlandy]

hot66 said:

I think I'll try & search out a good 110 over the next couple of months. I think it will be an easier vehical to live with re. kids & their seats

"easy to live with landrover"

Edited by greenlandy on Tuesday 22 August 19:15

[NDT]

What about the following idea.

Find a Renault Scenic* in a breakers. Buy the seats and get them to cut out a chunk of floorpan including the seat mounts.
Make a 'kin strong assembly to connect the Renault seat mounts to the Landy body**.
Now you have seats that:
1. can be removed easily if you want to carry loads of stuff
2. Are reasonably comfortable
3. Have isofix mounts for the child seats

PS when you've done it, can you send me some pics?

* Or any other people carrier with removable seats. I just have a Scenic, that's all.
** I assume body rather than chassis. Think the peak deceleration in a front end crash would be too high if you attached seats direct to the chassis. The best rule of thumb would be to attach the new seats to whatever the old seats were attached to.