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Recommendations for car with 3 kids!

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mintich · 29/08/2020 13:33

I need a new car and looking for recommendations . It will need to fit 2 toddler car seats and a high back booster seat. Big enough for all the baby paraphernalia but not too expensive! Help!

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DawnMumsnet · 29/08/2020 14:08

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DawnMumsnet · 29/08/2020 14:26

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Aquicknamechange2019 · 29/08/2020 14:27

We bought an S Max for our 3, had two in child seats and one in a high back booster at first. Now two in high back booster and one child seat. Works really well for us.

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Muchtoomuchtodo · 29/08/2020 14:29

Peugeot 5008 fits the bill perfectly.

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mintich · 29/08/2020 18:22

We have an S Max at the moment so have toyed with getting another but would perhaps like something different

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uhohbrusselsprouts · 29/08/2020 18:27

S Max. There aren't many options to get three seats across the back and the S Max is probably the best of the bunch.

coaleo · 29/08/2020 18:35

C4 grand Picasso (spacetourer now I think) fits 3 car seats in back, and optional 2 extra you can pop up in boot if they have friends with you 😄

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mintich · 30/08/2020 19:10

Any other recommendations?

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makingbacon · 30/08/2020 19:11

What's your budget?

Greenmarmalade · 30/08/2020 19:12

Zafira is excellent

IrishCream123 · 30/08/2020 19:14

When my 3 were little we have a Zafira. Great family cars.

Boringnamechanging · 30/08/2020 19:16

We have the Citroen grand c4 Picasso so that we can put 2 rear facing seats and still get an adult in the back on the end seat. It has 3 full seats in the back. It also has the underfloor storage boxes, we have one support leg that goes to the floor of the box and the other we move the seat (the actual car seat not child seat) forward so the leg missed the box.

DoorbellsSleighbellsSchnitzel · 30/08/2020 19:17

I would thoroughly recommend a Citroen Grande Picasso. I had a 3 year old S-Max and ended up getting a refund from the dealer after it failed on me dangerously more than once within weeks of buying it!

JC12345 · 30/08/2020 19:20

Have a look at the car seat advice UK Facebook group. Lots of suggestions for 3 across in there.

TheListeners · 31/08/2020 00:32

VW caddy maxi life and I love it. It's basically a van but drives like a car. 7 seats and still has a decent sized boot. If you want you can take the back seats out and have it as a 5 seater with gigantic boot. I'm sure you would get three seats in it no bother at all.

wegetthejobdone · 31/08/2020 00:53

We tried a C4 Space tourer and couldn't get 3 car seats across the back - we do have two of the biggest HBB and 123 around though! The Zafira is problematic as on newer ones you can't get three car seats on the second row so you have to put one in the boot seats, which I wouldn't be happy with.

The only solution we found was to buy an expensive S Max or similar which we decided in the end wasn't worth it.

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