What car for 3 child seats?
Discussion
I have two daughters aged 5 and 1 with another baby on the way due next April. We currently have an old shape saab 9-3 TiD but it is getting on a bit with 145000 on the clock and the electrics are slowly giving up the ghost one at a time!
Plus I am due to receive some money in a couple of months time so we were looking at changing it then anyway but I am running out of ideas!
We need. Large hatch or estate that is diesel, preferably less than 100000 miles and most importantly capable of having threes child seats in the rear seats. I have a defender 110 sw that although easily houses everyone, it is not reliable enough, plus it is too heavy for my wife to drive to be promoted to main car.
I believe that mpv's are to people who have given up and I detest vauxhall a so they are out but am open to other ideas. I suggested a discovery td5 but my wife doesn't want something that big.
My budget is between £3000-3500.
The other option I have is to sell the defender and the saab and add that to the money to give a budget of around £6000-7000. I would then replace my defender with another puma as I still miss mine!
Plus I am due to receive some money in a couple of months time so we were looking at changing it then anyway but I am running out of ideas!
We need. Large hatch or estate that is diesel, preferably less than 100000 miles and most importantly capable of having threes child seats in the rear seats. I have a defender 110 sw that although easily houses everyone, it is not reliable enough, plus it is too heavy for my wife to drive to be promoted to main car.
I believe that mpv's are to people who have given up and I detest vauxhall a so they are out but am open to other ideas. I suggested a discovery td5 but my wife doesn't want something that big.
My budget is between £3000-3500.
The other option I have is to sell the defender and the saab and add that to the money to give a budget of around £6000-7000. I would then replace my defender with another puma as I still miss mine!
Yeah clutch is heavy, steering is heavy, doors are heavy, it's a long way up! I'm a squaddie used to driving various chiseled from stone vehicles, my wife is a 5ft 2 nurse who has never owned a car without power steering!
I have considered the other 4x4 option, but I am a dyed in the wool land rover fan and the freelander, which we have owned before, is too small and brings a whole host of other problems!
I have considered the other 4x4 option, but I am a dyed in the wool land rover fan and the freelander, which we have owned before, is too small and brings a whole host of other problems!
Sorry for the delay in replying, I'm in exercise this week and tanks take some preparing!
I did have the feeling that mpv was going to be the route! It is the best way to move more than the standard family!
My mum used to have a XM, I loved that car but I would be worried about relying on an old Citroen, especially when I am not here during the week, I reference the Citroen ph blog!
The defender fits them fine as it has three independent seats which are all exactly the same, the main issue being that it only has a lap belt for the centre seat so I would have to install a three point for that seat.
I did have the feeling that mpv was going to be the route! It is the best way to move more than the standard family!
My mum used to have a XM, I loved that car but I would be worried about relying on an old Citroen, especially when I am not here during the week, I reference the Citroen ph blog!
The defender fits them fine as it has three independent seats which are all exactly the same, the main issue being that it only has a lap belt for the centre seat so I would have to install a three point for that seat.
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