E70 X5 and 3 rear child seats?

[Toady1]

I'm looking to replace the family car, our trusty Smax. We really like the X5 and thought it would be a fine upgrade, until I came across a picture on here in someone's advert of a child seat in the back. It looked like there literally wasn't much of a middle seat anymore!

We have three kids, 3, 4, and 7. So need 3 full sized kids seats. The Smax is great for this as it has 3 decent sized individual rear seats with isofix.

Has anyone else had an X5 and fitted 3 child's seats?

[Toady1]

So it looks like the answer is no after some further searching! Bugger! Am I constrained to an mpv for the next 6 years!!!! Arghhhhh!

[Toady1]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I'll google those seats, though I only bought 3 new seats 18 months ago so am a bit loathed to buy more! The multimacs are way too pricey for me to consider. I realised the other day that my middle smax seat isn't isofix after all, and that one I use the 3 point belt. But the seats are all a good size. I parked up next to an x5 yesterday and had a nose inside, it didn't look much if any smaller than the smax.

[Toady1]

AHUX said:

Yes the problem with the X5 is the width of the middle seat between the buckles - it’s too narrow for the majority of child seats.

We bought the Maxi Cosi seats from Asda at the baby event @ £45 each and the other seat from Amazon @ £160.

Thanks, I've just googled the donio seat, it looks like a more narrow design. I currently have a britax seat for my youngest, a recaro monza for the eldest, and a cheaper jole. All are quite wide.

Just FYI, in my searching I found out there was a recall in 2017 for the donio seat.