Help! any Seat Alhambra owners!? having a panic...

[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas]

I'm 25 weeks with twins, my dd will be 18-hopefully nearly 19 months when they're born. I wanted all 3 in a row in the car so enough space for a monster buggy in the boot. I was told an MPV, individual seats not bench seats, jobs a good 'un. Today we traded in my mini for a minibus Seat Alhambra as it seemed to fit all the criteria. 3 isofix point across middle row, individually moving seats, loads of room in boot once rear seats removed.

Dh has just looked in the handbook and it says you can only fit 2 isofix seats in, and only one if its in the middle... This is a disaster for me, dd is in an extended rearfacer, isofix, huge (the BeSafe iZi Combi). Is this true, or is there any way I can squeeze 3 isofix seats in? Dh says the handbook is very pedantic, but its the handbook!

Having a massive panic...

[Gigondas]

How old is it? I ask as we have Vw sharan (which is built on same production line but different engine etc). Dh looked into this and they changed to 3 isofix about 18 months ago but this isn't obvious from brochures

[Gigondas]

more here

[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas]

It's 2007. It has isofix points across all 3 middle seats, it never occurred to me you maybe couldn't use them all together. I thought we'd buy the car then the car seats, which could be an expensive mistake!!! Yes, so similar to a sharan, the new sharan's are lovely!!

Someone in car seats has said they've had 3 isofix seats across a 2006 middle seat in an alhambra, so I'm crossing everything...

Off to check out your link now, thanks.

[TruthSweet]

It may be that the middle seat 'borrows' the inside ISOFix clips from the outside seats (so only 4 ISOFIX mounting points in the car) hence only two seats if they are outboard and one if in the middle.

Does the iZi Combi fit with a seat belt or ISOFix or just ISOFix?

[DreamingOfPeace]

The iZi combi is isofix only. They're 3 separate seats that can be fitted in any of the positions in the car and all have isofix points. That's got to be a good start?! Desperate to try now... Awaiting a hand me down seat and base and itching to go to halfords!!!