Help Please!! Car seat trauma!

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Need to get DD a forward facing car seat but keep getting told we have the dreaded buckle crunch and that although the car has isofix points its not been crash tested so they (mothercare and halfords) wouldn't recommend it. Oh our car is a Nissan Almera btw. Anyone else own an Almera if so what seat do you have? Or if you wouldn't mind saying does any have a seat where the buckle touches the base? Is it really likely to spring open in an accident? TIA

have you looked on the britax website car seat finder?

Yes there is one Isofix seat that says it may fit so am going to go on a mission to find someone that stocks it tomorrow - it wasn't in halfords or mothercare. Though it would be easy had decided on the Maxi Cosi Priori but the buckle touched the base

I thought buckle crunch was when the buckle comes up too high on the base, all the buckles actually touch the side of the base IYSWIM?

Apparently no part of the buckle is supposed to touch the base only the seatbelt webbing but I thought the same as you surely all buckles touch. Thought shops we being a bit over cautious but have googled it and it says the same

I agree with the shops. We bought a Jazz and our existing Priori XP did not fit. We had to go ISOFIX and got the Britax Duo Plus. It is a good seat and does well on the Which? tests (better than the XP). I got ours from Kiddicare. Next day del. If the Britax site says it is OK it will be. No probs with buckle crunch as belt not used. HTH

DP went to check today if the car has ISOFIX but cannot seem to find anything, car is only 4 yrs old though so would have thought it would have done. Have checked the Britax fit finder and it only comes up with ISOFIX seats that fit which means if we don't have the ISOFIX points we are a bit stuck as that rules out maxi cosi and britax. What a nightmare

How annoying. The iosfix points are little metal rectangle like hoops right in the crack of the seat. There are two on each seat that has it. On our Jazz they were very hard to find, but I would expect your DH to have found them if they were there. Do you have a manual?

My sisters brand new Kia doesn't have isofix...

If the Fitfinder says it has Isofix, then it should do. There is also a separate table on the Britax site for which cars fit the Duo Plus Isofix. We have it; it's a very good seat. Which only rates one other seat higher. On other tests, such as German AA, the Duo Plus scores higher and it's got the NCAP top score in two different cars.

You can't always see the Isofix points - check car manual.