Hi everyone!
Writing from Croatia and hope to get some help with the Multimac car seats, as I really cannot find anyone here that has one.
We have a 3.5 year old and are expecting twins in November.
We own a 2011 Citroen C4 Mk2 and a 2018 Hyundai i10. So small and smaller when 3 children are involved.
Our first plan was to sell the C4 and buy an MPV, but I was disappointed to find out how little we can realisticaly get for it. And we'd at least get a 2 years younger MPV so the peice difference is quite large, plus we'd be buying a fairly oldish car with certainly over 100k miles on the clock.
So I found out about Multimac, contacted them for some info (the customer service couln't be better, I'd buy it just based on that) and I'm closer to getting it now than a new car (we need to test the boot for some double strollers, but if we find one that'll fit and leave room for a couple pieces of luggage for vacations, I'll get the Multimac).
It is quite pricey, but it's half what I would have to pay for a bigger car and individual seats.
It's very pricey considering it's not a seat you can simply sell on if it doesn't work out. And if it doesn't, I'll still have to get a bigger car. I don't think I'll ecer be able to sell it here cause the new one, with 2 Minimacs would come to a total of 3-4 average monthly wages here.
What reassures me is that I've never found a post where someone said it was a bad fit. So I guess you can always make it work. I'd like to get some opinions on that if someone owns it.
Another, more important thing is crash test. I know it says it should be safer than conventional single seats, but what worries me is that there are really no test reports available easily for public.
I received a link from Multimac for one such testing. It was performed by which.co.uk but I don't have a subscription. If anyone has seen it, I'd like to know what they said? No need to sell me anything, just a short overview if safety is really that high.
And finally, I'd be interested to know if there is any knowledge about one being in a real traffic accident and how it held up, how does insurance cover it in UK (though I don't think a single insurance company in Croatia is gonna want to ensure it, eapecially since we don't have a representative here and I'd have to install it myself) etc. Having asked that, I do hope no one did have an accident.
Thanks in advance!
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