Prince child seat fitment

[Flick]

Hi, I've just bought a Porsche Prince seat and thought I'd have a look to see how it fits- it seems to move quite a bit, like the base of the 944 seat is too short as it seems to tip forwards quite easily- as this seat seems to be reccomended I've decided the problem is between the steering wheel and the drivers seat (ie me). The instructions are in German so does anyone know of any English instructions online? I had a brief search of the 924/944/968 forums but it didn't seem to find anything.

Thanks in advance.

 

[H823ENM]

I have a porsche approved seat for the little on, I'll dig it out and see if the instructions are any help, is an isofix (guessing at the spelling) if so I had to remove this.

thanks

Martin

 

[sawood12]

I had the same thing with my Brittax which was approved for 944/968. I assume the Prince seat is of a similar design. I established that the problem was that because there is very little padding on the rear seats you couldn't tension the seatbelt properly. In my Focus the same seat was fixed solid as you can really pull on the seatbelt which pushes the baby seat into the car seat compressing the foam before you lock the seatbelt. Also this problem is exasperated because the seatbelt receiver (i.e. the bit that the buckle slots into) is on a long length of wire which means the receiver is too high relative to where the seatbelt passes through the seat frame. Because there is no compression of the rear seats you cannot get the tension in the seatbelt. Therefore I only use the babyseat in the front seat.

 

[Flick]

Well the main things are that it tips forward, there's no way to lock the belts, even in the front seats and it moves around a hell of a lot.

I went to Mothercare yesterday and the lady said that as the Prince does not have its own harness it is not legal to use until my son is 4y.o or 15kg, whichever comes first.

I spoke to Stuart at Quickfit who mentioned the M&P Securio would fit so I've put wanted ads on PH, here and Tipec.

 

[sawood12]

If you could tension the seatbelt properly then it wouldn't tip forward. When fitted in my front passenger seat or in the focus there is no forward motion at all no matter how hard you pull on the seat as it is locked in by the tension of the seatbelt - the babyseat is being positively pushed into the seat. and of course in an actual crash the inertia reel would kick in and definitely prevent any forward tipping. If the rear seats of the 944 had as much padding as a normal car seat and the seatbelt buckle receiver (what is that part called?!) then it would be fine.

Having said that on the one occasion I carried out a test seat and had the babyseat in the back with my daughter in it there was precious little room for her feet and her face was very close to the seat back despite the front seat being as far forward as it could be and the seat back upright. I think modern baby seats are just so bulky - alot more so than baby seats from 1987, that they just are not suitable. Even if I could install the seat satisfactorily I wouldn't feel comfortable with my daughter in the back anyway. I'd rather squeeze the wife into the back and have my daughter up front.