Child car seats for a 944

[Guest]

Are there any 944 owners out there who have, or have recently had children small enough to need car seats? If so, did you manage to find child car seats that would fit in the back seats of the 944? I currently manage to put my 2-year old daughter in her car seat mounted in the front passenger seat, but in a few months time I will need to transport our new twins to nursery as well, so will need to use the rear 'seats'. As it is, I think that the back seats are really only useful for transporting children who are small enough to fit in, but are not so small that they still need car seats!
Cheers,

Graham

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure how helpful this is, as I noticed recently that the base of 944 seats are curved, whereas the ones in my 968 were flat...not sure that the seat I use would fit in a 944 as well....however...

You can't get rearward facing seats in the back of these cars, as far as I know, so that rules out carrying kids in the back until they are >9kgs, or about 9-12 months. Few seats for children older than that will fit - the one I have is a Recaro Start (which, if you use the recommended impact cushion, won't fit unless you have the belts lengthened) which is a great seat and fits OK. The bad news - they are more than £200, but they are one of the safest seats out there apparently.

 

[Fen]

There is a seat that fits. I haven't got kids so I didn't pay much attention but search. If it isn't on here let me know and I'll trawl the 2 years of Titanic archive I have.

 

[hotblack944]

I've used a Britax Ranger in the back for my son:

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Product.aspx/bruorfindusing/bruazofbrands/brutravelbritax/703354

He's 4 1/2 now and uses the booster part of it in the front.

Jim.

 

[Fen]

That rings a bell as the one I was talking about.

 

[chrisr]

Yep I can also confirm that the Britax ranger is the car seat I use in the rear ( well the booster part ) when I have my child and niece with me... great seat and does the job well.

 

[PRJ]

Thanks Guys, Britax Ranger it is then. Picked up my turbo 2 weeks ago and was convinced the childseat I already had would fit in the back. It didn't and so my 2 year old has been banned by the missus from setting foot in it, despite the plaintive cries of 'Want to go fast Daddy, pleeeaaaase...'

 

[Fen]

Got a decent car then now, Paul? []

I have been meaning to catch up with you for some not inconsiderable time; I must give you a bell over the next few days.

 

[Guest]

According to rennlist, the Recaro baby seat fits 944s too. You can buy it from http://www.porscheshop.co.uk/acatalog/seat_belts_child_seats_porsche_cars.html for one.

 

[PRJ]

Ahh, Mr C. Long time no hear and all that. The reason for my disgraceful lack of contact is 'too much to list' as the adverts go. Some good, some bad - will fill you in via e-mail at some point soon.

Re. the 'decent car' jibe - It was a close run thing and I actually started looking at TVRs again, as I was sure a Griff 500 was what I wanted. However, I soon realised that in terms of build quality/reliability, I'd be happier driving a 16 year old Porker with circa 120k on the clock,rather than a 1996 Griff with 70k (costing twice as much). Horsham now has a specialist service/tuning outfit specialising in the Stuttgart stuff (Sussex Performance Centre) and that swung things too.

 

[Fen]

ORIGINAL: PRJ

Re. the 'decent car' jibe - It was a close run thing and I actually started looking at TVRs again, as I was sure a Griff 500 was what I wanted. However, I soon realised that in terms of build quality/reliability, I'd be happier driving a 16 year old Porker with circa 120k on the clock,rather than a 1996 Griff with 70k

And here's me leaping to the defence of TVR when people say they are unreliable citing your Chim as an example of why they are not.... Anyway, I'm officially terrible at keeping in contact with people. It would be good to catch up though - I don't even know how the rest of the Academy season went last year.