Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Mission Impossible

We are on a mission. A mission to find a car seat that will fit properly in the backseat of a 2001 VW Golf.

The Babytrend seat we got with our travel system is too small (as I mentioned a few posts ago) so we did a little research and heard that the Graco Snugride would fit...yeah that was a big lie. Apparently these people who keep saying these seats fit are installing them incorrectly. At least as far as I've been informed.

You aren't supposed to allow the car seat to touch the seats in front, right? If that's wrong and it can touch them, then we don't have a problem...but according to my friend as well as the instruction booklet, the car seat is not supposed to touch the seats in front in an accident...much less all the time.

We're going to head over to BabiesRus after church on Sunday to see if we can find anything. I'm tempted to just spend $200 and get a convertible seat since he'll need one eventually anyway.

Some that say they're "compact" for smaller vehicles:









Britax Diplomat














Britax Roundabout














and my favorite...the Combi Coccoro


Of course the Combi seat is only sold online so there isn't really a way to test it out. I might just buy it from BabiesRus so we can return it to the store if need be...



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