Car seats for 3 baby seats- Hyundai Tucson or new car

[Flamingo512]

Hi,

We currently have a 2 year old (14kg 85cm) in Axkid one2 and a 4 year old (21kg 110cm) in Axkid minikid 2.
We have a 2016 Hyundai Tucson. We have a infant seat which is a Joie ilevel.
We are open to other seats if it means we can keep the car and have 3 in the back!

We walk the older 2 to school so only need the car for weekends.

If not any car reccomendations please. Our car is 10 years old so we won't get much for it so last resort 🙈

Help please 🙏

Multimac

I've just Googled as never heard of them before. Are these legal in the UK? Are the rear facing? How does it work?

If you've got axkids I doubt you'd be happy with a multi mac.

If you don't have 3 individual seats across the back, you'd be best to look at replacing isofix seats with belt fitted. The minikid is fab for puzzling. The One not so much (due to the isofix).

We have an A6, it's not great for 3 across but we can fit an Axkid Up, Avionaut pixel pro and axkid minikid across the back in that order. Unfortunately the infant carrier has to go in the middle and none are isofix.

Thank you.
I would prefer ERF if possible or at least all 3 in the back seats.

Hmm maybe we need to look into other cars but really don't think we can afford one 🙈

I bet there will be a solution! Have you got a car seat person near you? We use a lady at Saunders and Smalls in Somerset, but there are people who offer car seat advice / fitting / selling all over.

If it's of any help, my childminder fit two minikids and a Graco extend R129 across the back 3 of a Freelander. The Graco was FF but I don't think she tried it RF.

My plan, expecting #3 in April, is to mostly have the baby seat in the front but when all 5 of us go out then it can go in the middle back. My husband is rarely in the car except for school hols and it will make it easier for school runs etc having the baby in the front. It's also worth considering that the infant carrier stage is quite short, or can be, if you would be moving #3 into something like a minikid at 7/8/9 months and by then how old/ready your eldest would be for a possible different seat. So if a new car is really not ideal, then can you look at it that way to bridge the gap where in the meantime either the baby goes in the front and/or it's a total faff to get all 3 in the back but it's not for long. E.g. depending how wide your middle seat is, by then your eldest may be able to go into a slim HBB with two minikids either side. (Unfortunately our cars middle seat has a ridiculously narrow gap between the belt buckles so a HBB basically just doesn't fit there!)