Nissan elgrand car seat??

[Elambert83]

Hi All

This is my 1st ever thread so bear with!!
My husband has bought a Nissan Elgrand and I am worried about car seats.

I have a DD who is 2.5 and in my car she uses a Joie spin on Isofix base but there are no Isofixes on his new car. He has retro fitted an isofix but it seems really wobbly so now worried that she is safe /ie its not compatible.

Shall we get new isofix fitted or try getting another car seat that doesn't need isofix and can use belts? If so which ones...

Also expecting another baby and worried about a newborn, i have bought a maxi cosi tinca (before he bought the car)

Sorry for running on.... Any help much appreciated as I am very confused as obviously Nissan elgrand does not come up on any compatibility lists online.

Where was the isofix retrofit kit bought from? Is it an official Nissan one or a generic one from ebay/amazon?

The reason being isofix cannot usually be retrofitted, Fords sometimes do it, because they had it as an optional extra for years, but it has to be a proper Ford part from a Ford dealer. I don't know off the top of my head about Nissan.

However there are these generic/"universal" kits you can buy online. They aren't safe, they don't meet any international or European standard and if this is what he's installed, I would not attach a child seat to it under any circumstances (and I'd take it out if you ever sell the car, so nobody else does).

That said, the Joie 360 can be wobbly when fitted, even when the isofix is fine. It just is more wobbly in some cars than others. Being wobbly doesn't mean it's necessarily an unsafe fit. Weirdly we find in ours it's more wobbly when installed on one side than the other!

You can fit the Maxi Cosi Tinca with seatbelt, off the base, if you need a non-isofix option. Use the base for your car and seatbelt fit it for his.

For your DD would you want a rear facing or forward facing option?

Thanks for your reply, I will show my husband this as it was bought off ebay.
Thats what I unfortunately hoped no one would think but that was my suspicions really.

Best to be on the safe side.

Since I'm just a random on a forum, if you want to be doubly sure, you could check with Nissan whether they approve the use of those kits - I strongly suspect not, but they would be able to tell you for sure.

Honestly they frighten me and I think there ought to be a campaign about them. You can't stop people flogging dangerous stuff, but people shouldn't be innocently installing it thinking it's safe.