car seats ... snore.. but what is easiest to transfer between cars

[AuroraB]

i've had some great recommendations and advice on here about car seats, are they stage 2? anyway the second one you need after the little first one for 9kg +.

thing is DS is going to be dropped of by me, picked up by DP and 2 days a week also have to go in GP's cars, so that's potentially 5 cars a week he will travel in.

i had assumed i'd get an isofix one but now i'm thinking are non-isofix ones lighter and more portable?

has anyone else had to constantly swap seats between cars and can identify things i should look for (weight / easy fixing etc)and make any recommendations. we just can't afford more than one seat so that's not really an option

thank you

9kg+ is Stage 1

they are all bastards to move from car to car, weight is the main issue
isofix are easier to fit but do all 5 of those cars have isofix?

Depends on the car, imo.

We've got 2 Britax Duoplus seats and frequently transfer them between cars. The seats are pretty light. Both cars have Isofix but whereas it is really easy to fit them into one car (takes seconds) it is a real PITA in the other (I have to get dh to do it ). The easy car has the isofix holes on view, the other one has them hidden in the folds of the seat and it takes a lot of brute force to get them in .

I had to reread my instruction manual to find out what fitting guides are.
Yes, we do have those but they're still hidden in the fold of the seat.
Getting ride of that car soon so it isn't a major problem.

I'd def get Isofix - especially for the GPs as they are so easy to get right, especially ones with indicators

thanks all, there's a lot of good points there for me to consider.

4 out of the 5 cars have isofix

will any isofix seat fit all isofixes if you see what i mean?

i have looked into rear facing and they looked more complicated and less available, although i appreciate the increased safety forward facing are surely also pretty safe?

Loopymumsy you are exactly right, that everyone can fit it properly is probably the most important factor

I would m go with the isofix if you can work it. We have a non isofix maxicosi which we put in GP's cars one day FIL removed it from his car to get something from under it and re-fitted it and even though we had given him instructions and shown him countless times how to fit it correctly it was loose and wobbly and DD had been in it all day. Now we fit it and it is not allowed to be moved unless we move it. FIL always comments that DH was fine just on MILs lap so why the fuss. I have to point out a badly fitted seat is almost worse than no carseat.

hi AuroraB

we have a britax two way elite and have just bought a KISS from the in car safety centre. the twe is easy to move as it's light and we have an extra set of tether straps in each car we have to move it to. the KISS is isofix and is easy to move but is heavier. it can also be installed rf with the seat belt.

not sure if you can say that ff seats are unsafe but if you were to have a head on collision with a small child they would have less chance of surviving. someone on here said on one of the threads-can't remember who, that while the seats are marked as safe they wouldn't get the same marks if they took into account the forces on a child's neck.

once we found out about rf we couldn't have bought ff. i had wanted the maxo cosi priorifix before we found out about rf and the twe was £100 cheaper and the kiss about £25 more expensive.

with regard to them being harder to install i have been cm for 9 years and have used the priori and the seats are no harder or easier to install than the ff seats. it's like anything once you have done it a few times it's fine.

We have the Kiddy Comfort Pro. It's fab and I've thoroughly recommended it elsewhere on similar threads. Really easy to transfer between cars.