Car to fit 3 child seats in please help!!

Flyboy152

Just in case you are considering it, don't bother with the Scenic, that won't take three sets in the second row. The centre seat is smaller than the outer two, the Picasso's are all the same size.

Kilty_2

I'll add another +1 to the Picasso.

Had a 2010 Xsara Picasso as a courtesy car - actually quite liked it 2600 miles later :eek::o

Flyboy152

Kilty wrote: »

I'll add another +1 to the Picasso.

Had a 2010 Xsara Picasso as a courtesy car - actually quite liked it 2600 miles later :eek::o

That's quite some courtesy.

Kilty_2

Flyboy152 wrote: »

That's quite some courtesy.

:rotfl:

Dealer messed me around with a car I was purchasing (my Laguna which I've recently sold) - I ended up using the Picasso to go to work 350 miles from home

Worst thing for them is it was a delivery mileage car from sales stock :eek:

Exemplar

I would say the Picasso as well, loved mine but lack of rev counter drove me bananas... Don't know why but it did!

1jim

another + for the picasso, dont know what the new versions are like c4picassos and the like but the older zsara picassos are great, you do have to get used to the judging the front of the car because of the slope of the bonnet but otherwise great car.....I am currently debating if I should keep mine (coming up for 6years old) or move on to an octavia or other car....but picasso still going strong

smitchy73

Another one for Citroen, have a look at the Berlingo, if you can suffer it being van like, my uncle has one for my disable aunt, and they love it, they get wheelchair, cage for the dog, and loads of luggage, pretty sure you can get 3 seats across the rear seats. I also had a Honda FRV but not sure on resale costs of them it was about 6 years ago we had it, but it does have 3 seats in front and 3 in back, all seperate seats, front middle seat slides back further than the driver and passenger to allow a little extra shoulder room, plus if it's the older kid in the front they take on an extra air of power and responsibility!

Flyboy152

alcot33uk wrote: »

I would say the Picasso as well, loved mine but lack of rev counter drove me bananas... Don't know why but it did!

You do tend to miss it for a bit, but after a while it doesn't matter really. Like many cars it is hard to feel totally satisfied. The C4 Picasso cleared up a lot of "deficiencies" the Xsara Picasso had, such as a tachometer, but they are all mostly cosmetic stuff.

Swiss_Toni

We were in a similar situation and found a novel solution...

Whilst trawling the dealerships, we found the award-winning Volvo childseat, which can be separated to being just a booster seat when the child is old enough.

The novel solution?

Although the seat is a standard width "inside", it has a very narrow frame and so is not as wide "outside". This meant that instead of having to change car, we were able to put 2x Volvo seats plus one standard baby seat across the back seat, and now 3x Volvo seats.

This discovery cost us iro £70 per Volvo seat, but saved £'000s in changing the car!!!

We have a VW Passat Estate btw, 130bhp, very large boot, ave 55mpg (I get upto 65mpg on my 45 mile drive to work on A roads), 2003, value iro £3.5k, long life service means once every 18k miles or so. Very cheap and happy motoring!

Kilty_2

Flyboy152 wrote: »

You do tend to miss it for a bit, but after a while it doesn't matter really. Like many cars it is hard to feel totally satisfied. The C4 Picasso cleared up a lot of "deficiencies" the Xsara Picasso had, such as a tachometer, but they are all mostly cosmetic stuff.

I hated the digital speedometer at first because of the way it changed - you don't see the speed rise/fall like you do on an analogue speedo if you know what I mean.

Got used to it though and liked the central location. Rev counter didn't bother me, my Picanto doesn't have one either (although does have one of those annoying "shift indicators" :mad:)