To ask what the best forward facing car seat is

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If you need to move it between cars on a regular basis . They are so bloody hard to get in and out . We have two cars and two car seats already but we both work shifts and there are three different other cars that ds regularly goes in . It was so much simpler with his little maxi cosi . Ah the newborn days

We have a Kiddy Guardian Pro car seat. It has a kind of bumper cushion instead of the usual five point harness and came out very well in Which? reports I believe. Dead easy to move between cars as is secured to the child (rather than the seat) using the lap belt.

Sorry I should have said he's only just turned one so needs to be a group 1 . Sorry thanks though I will look into that to see if they do a group one !

They're all as tricky as each other and on that basis you may as well stay rearfacing.

Do all the cars he'll be in have isofix? If you can find one which is compatible with them all, isofix will minimise issues with fitting and messing around with the seatbelt.

I agree with Slatecross. If you can possibly remain rear facing then that's the option I would go for. Rear facing seats are much easier to get hold of now (I think JL does some).

you will get a load of rear facing comments (not what OP asked for)

can you not head down to the shops and try a few out getting them in and out or the car? I know some shops to a car fitting service - is it mothercare?

we have an isofix maxicosi pearl

Can you get two seats? If not then I have a Maxi Cosi Priori XP for people to borrow when they're taking DD in their car. She has a fancy eye-wateringly expensive extended rear facing carseat for my car.

Forgot to say if both your cars have points then an isofix carseat would be really easy to take in and out without worrying about seatbelts.

One of the main points against rear facing seats is that they are really difficult to fit properly and moy fitted properly they are way less effective and not worth the extra money. So if someone is planning to be regularly moving the seat I would say this is s prime example of when not to have rear facing

If he's only just turned 1 unless he's very unusual size and weight wise he should still fit in his 0+infant carrier for about another 5 months that's assuming you brought it new and haven't got one of the (no longer manufactured) group 0's.

Save yourself some pennies for a bit longer,he's safer in that anyway

I have the Britax 2way elite RF and it is very very easy to mive between cars. The only difficult part is the tethers, and we just have a spare set in the second car, in place, and just move the seat. Very very simple

Isofix is very easy to move between cars. We have a klippan kiss which is rear facing, you cant really fit it wrong you just click it into the isofix points, same as you would with a forward facing. If you aren't interested in rear facing then look for an isofix seat if both your cars have it. Maxi cosi pearl perhaps? The new version can do forward or rear facing with the same seat, the older model is forward only. What is your budget?

Is he still safe in the infant carrier ? He's 24lbs . I still have his maxi cosi cabriofix . He still fits in it ok but looks a bit squashed !

As I said both dh and I have seats in our cars but he regularly goes in my sister , my parents or my father in laws car , and when they are we have to take one of our seats out and it seems to keep causing hassle , so I was thinking if there was one this was easy to fit we could buy a third and it goes where ds goes

There are lots of rear facing seats which are just as easy to fit as ff meganorks.

I have maxi cosi axiss. It rotates 90 degrees and is fantastic. Good offers on amazon every now and again. It's RRP is £225 and I got it for £116 on amazon.

Just to clarify - the Kiddy car seat I mentioned is a stage one (2 and 3) seat. Although secured by the seatbelt rather than a normal harness, the cushion bit actually gives more protection than a normal stage 1 seat. Have a look at the youtube vids and you'll see what I mean. Dc2 has used it from 10 months.

Sockreturningpixie- unfortunately the problem with 0+ infant carriers is that they are often too short for 1 year old children, even though they could still go in them weight wise. By which I mean head is sticking out of the top or the harness no longer fits comfortably on the shoulders. Feet sticking out of the bottom of the seat is less of a concern.

I had a car seat from Kiddicare which had the cushion across the lap like the Kiddy Guardian Pro, really easy to fit but unfortunately the belt in our new car wouldn't go across the cushion, so if you went down that route you would need to test it in each of the cars to make sure it fitted.

Maxi Cosi Pearl with familyfix base here. Much much better than the hideously annoying Priori XP that I had with DD1.

I have a Britax Two-Way Elite for DS - we don't have our own car so we use it in my parents' car or for hire cars. It is very easy to swap between cars and can go forward-facing or rear-facing. If you buy spare tethers then it is even easier to move between cars.

He's good in that until he gains another about 4lbs unless the top of his ears reach the top of the back of his seat.

That seat has a 13kg upper weight so 28.660lbs

So likely to be a few more months use.

Sockreturningpixie- unfortunately the problem with 0+ infant carriers is that they are often too short for 1 year old children, even though they could still go in them weight wise. By which I mean head is sticking out of the top or the harness no longer fits comfortably on the shoulders. Feet sticking out of the bottom of the seat is less of a concern

Those are all things that can be physically seen by the parent of the child sat in the seat who will obviously be assessing the correct fit.

But you would be gobsmacked by the amount of people who think the child has outgrown the seat based solely on the age of the child and nothing else. No reputable surplier or safety org anywhere would back up the age based thing but so many people belive it,so it makes sence to tell them that it is not the case at all and that with under 3's seats age should not even be a consideration at all it should all be based on size and weight.