That means in order to get 3 seats in the back of most average family cars, the car seat has to be 43cm wide or less.
We also knocked off 100mm, for wiggle room either side to get 3 seats in the back. And having trawled through countless car manuals, we found that the average space in the back seat of these cars is around 1420-1450mm of space. So for the purposes of this article we used the measurements of what’s considered the most typical (and sold) family hatchback type of car, like a Vauxhall Astra or Skoda Octavia. We encourage you to learn more about the features of each of these seats on our narrowest car seats + boosters page here.And while the two best-selling cars in the UK at the moment are a VW Golf and Ford Focus, you'll find it very difficult to fit 3 car seats in the back of either of them. The Nuna Rava has a lower capacity than we’d prefer, but it takes up less room into the front seat than other rear-facing seats. For the expensive seats, we’ve focused on value – meaning that they must last a long time (high height and weight capacity) so you aren’t buying a new $300 seat every year. We’ve tried to select seats from as many price points as possible. Many of the narrowest seats are also on the more expensive side. We do not have any control over the prices of the seats. We’ve tried to select seats that are narrow on the outside yet wide on the inside and offer a high capacity in their respective mode so that if a 3-across works with this seat, you won’t have to redo the 3-across for another few years hopefully.īecause some seats work better in one mode than another – perhaps better rear-facing than forward-facing – you may notice that a particular seat only makes it onto our list in one of the modes it offers rather than all of them.
3 across car seats free#
We receive the vehicles (for a few days at a time… sadly not to keep) and the car seats (to keep – as we’ll use them in the future for other projects, and when we’re done with them donate to families who can’t afford a seat or to instructors to use for teaching) free from the manufacturers – but all of the vehicles and car seats are received because we have asked for them – not because a manufacturer asks us to highlight their vehicle or car seat. The vehicle and car seat manufacturers have no influence on the vehicles or car seats that we choose, nor have they paid us in any way for the time or effort spent in this 3-across project. This is a 100% independent project (like everything else that we do).
3 across car seats install#
We’ll tell you which seats fit where – and even whether you should install with seat belt or lower anchors. We’re taking late model vehicles (minivans, SUVs, sedans, and wagons) and spending many hours in the back seat trying out several dozen different car seats to give you specific “recipes” for 3-across in these vehicles. Even if you only have one kid, this project can help you choose seats and cars which might fit your growing family’s needs in the future. Rather than telling you to order a bunch of narrow car seats from Amazon and try a dozen out, only to return them in a fit of rage after spending days in your driveway installing and uninstalling car seats with nothing seeming to work for 3-across in your car… we’ve decided to do the leg work for you. We’re in the early stages of an exciting project we’re calling “2-Together & 3-Across Recipes”.
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