Car seat with shorter base so DH has more room (2005 car)

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It is so hard to make decisoins like this!!
DD is now 2.4 and her car seat makes her legs go straight out, into the passenger seat.
This is fine if DH drives or if I am on my own but, on long journeys, no good for DH to take a break.

I think I want one of those ones that can grow with DD until she is 11 or so, but lord knows where to start!

Isofix is good, right, but does it mean that the passenger seat can't go so far back? Therefore defeating the whole purpose?

Help me please!!

Bumping for you.

Cheers PuzzleRocks.
Bumping again

Oh dear, maybe Sunday is not a good day for questions
Anyone out there who can help me today?

Could you put the car seat in the middle so there's room for DD to stretch her legs?

I would say that this seat is the safest at this age.

The next stage (the ones that convert to a high back booster) are generally not as reliable in a crash test and don't score so highly.

Oh, I hadn't thought on puting DD in the middle. Is that safe?

Which one, SlightlyMadScotland? Did you forget the link?

The convertable ones don't rate so high? I didn't know that.

The one we have at the mo is this one
but is is so high and leaves her legs at the passenger shoulder height.

As long as the seat fits securely, the middle of the back seat is actually the safest place in the car.

Righto. Then I will have to try that first.
Not too sure if it will fit cos have now got a DS in a baby seat with isofix, but defo a better option than buying a new one right now, when it could wait until DD is 4.

I was assuming that you had a 5 point harness seat of the style that you linked...given that you implied that she was forward facing - yet not in a convertable. I was generalising about seats of that type.