Moving back to UK. What to do about car seats?

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We are moving to London in January. I've been advised that US car seats are not approved for use in the UK (sigh.) Annoying because I really like our carseats, esp DD1's awesome harnessed booster with cupholders.

Here's my main problem: DD2 is 13mo and weighs a whopping 18lbs. She's still in her infant seat but is outgrowing it by height and will need a new carseat between now and Jan. I'd like to keep her RF as long as possible. How bad would it be to buy a good seat here and use it when we get there? There are some nice ones here. I could get a cheapo one to get us through to Jan but all the ERF seats in the UK are SO EXPENSIVE. Seriously, I am not prepared to pay 350 (POUNDS) for a carseat when I can get a great US one for $169.

Any advice? Any links to more reasonably priced RF seats?

TIA!

Also, we are not getting a full size car--we'll be in London and parking is at a premium and we don't use it that much. So the RF seat needs to be fairly compact.

seems totally reasonable to me...there are numerous examples of perfectly safe products personally imported that have not had the EU safety tests...they have probably had similar US/Australian/NZ ones instead. I'd definitely bring them. In fact i'm sure that there was a thread a while ago where people were buying them from the US because they could only by decent rear facing ones from the states

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