Taking wheels off pushchairs to get in boot

womble12345

beckstar1975 wrote: »

I don't think it's that awful, and good for when bubs is little (fab pushchairs are the vista) but after a while you'll probably end up buying a Maclaren anyway for when you're in and out the car a lot, and keep the visa for bigger trips out.

Good future proofing with the rumble seat too

Thanks, your views make sense, I had envisioned that an umbrella folding maclaren would be on the cards for the future anyway. Although it seems the rumble seat doesnt fit with the carry cot which seems like a bit of a design flaw to me....

hawk30

I wouldn't want to do that. The wheels of my Uppababy Cruz are quite dirty at the moment and the real bad weather hasn't even arrived yet.

Nicki

womble12345 wrote: »

Thanks, your views make sense, I had envisioned that an umbrella folding maclaren would be on the cards for the future anyway. Although it seems the rumble seat doesnt fit with the carry cot which seems like a bit of a design flaw to me....

If an umbrella fold would work on your terrain, you can get McLarens which are suitable from birth.

I am a big fan of getting the right pushchair from the outset if you can as it saves so much aggravation (and money). With DS1 and DD1 they each had about 4 different pushchairs in their time, whereas DS2 has just had the one from birth to now when he barely uses it and we are considering getting rid

ema_o

It sounds like your criteria are quite a lot like mine were when looking for a pushchair.

Removing the wheel would be rubbish if it was wet / muddy. Also you may have a crying child in the car so the quicker you can get it in the better (I have been there).

In hindsight it would have made the most sense to have 2 pushchairs to start off with. I now own a Quinny zapp which is a godsend for shopping trips, fitting in the car and taking away with us. It handles all but the very roughest ground, and if you are using the car seat the baby faces you. I think there is another version where the seat can be changed to face you as well.

Then if you need something for proper rough terrain you could have a look at something that meets that criteria better.

My compromise was the M&P Sola - once I got the Quinny zapp and used it round the shops I realised that I'd compromised far too much!! I picked it up second hand from ebay so it was a bargain as well

lazywife

Removing the wheel would be a complete pain esp if you've pushed it through a muddy park at it was raining.
Ours isn't small, fits ok in the boot in one car, for our smaller car, we have the back seat constantly folded down (40:60, the single seat), so the top half pokes through to the back seat. Can still have the boot cover on, and it's a 3 door, so never really more than 1 person in the back and LO carseat on front seat.
L.xxx

Carrie80

Hi, just thought I'd say I have the uppababy vista (and love it!) - have you tried it in your car? As I can fit it in my tiny old Yaris, I just had to remove the parcel shelf.

I definitely wouldn't buy anything where you have to remove wheels - babies are impatient at the best of times and it would take too long, also the tread is quite deep and you might get all sorts stuck in them in the park and wouldn't want to touch them.

dizziblonde

It would depend on the wheel removal mechanism for me... I had a Phil and Teds for a while and removing the wheels on that was literally press the centre of the back wheels and it popped off, and just push it to get it back on the pram. I could deal with that if I had to - although in reality our car boot is so big that I rarely took even the second seat off to fold it fully. Something where I was having to grapple around to pull levers like my current buggy - I wouldn't be happy doing on a daily basis... once in a while like if you're going on holiday and boot space is at a premium - fine - but day to day - nope.

As it is I have a "walking" pushchair (a double Nipper) and an "in the boot of the car to pop round the shops" buggy (just a standard stroller thing) which works well for us - the walking pushchair I can push one handed while carrying or holding hands with a toddler and it's just a more comfortable and light push (priority when you've got two kids in the 91st and 99th centiles for height and weight - I breed beanpoles apparently... must be a well-hidden tall gene cos I show no evidence of it!), and for stuff when I don't mind pushing something heavier and harder to steer but want to keep space in the boot - I use the stroller one.

I never found two-part folds that bad really - indeed I found them great when packing the car to go away tightly as you had so much more flexibility than having to fit one huge "lump" of pushchair in the boot.

As for four pushchairs... I've had um... 3 singles and 5 doubles (in my defence - we have two double buggies as I mentioned and one that lives at my parents to save us taking a buggy if we're going up there). Bought and sold second hand so I'm actually probably slightly in profit on them when I've done things like bought ones with carrycots on and then sold carrycots and stupidly small cosytoes that the kids had outgrown on separately.

charlishae

I think it would depend how easy it is, can you go to the shop they sell them and have a go at taking the wheel off?
Theres so many pushchairs out there, surely theres something else that would fit the bill?

karent_2

My daughter has the oyster travel system, and removes the wheels to fit it in her boot. There were few good quality prams that would fit in her boot, but this way she got her ideal. She doesn't think its a problem removing the wheels. If you get mucky hands, theres always the baby wipes to hand!

Belle24

I have to take the back wheels off my quinny buzz every time I put it in the car, push a button to take off and then simply click back into place to put back in. I guess as I have always had to do it I never considered it a hassle, I've got to take the time to collapse it and put it in the car anyway.