Three Across - Real Mum story on MoM

I always dreamed on filling the back seat with children, week 5 weeks ago we welcomed out third child.

Now we have a dilemma… How to get three restraints across the back seat.

In our current car a 1999 Verada Wagon we fit 2 InfaSecure Roamers with a Steelcarft Cruiser capsule in the middle… BUT its a just fit. There is no way we will fit a third seat keeping the brand new Infa Convertible Boosters.

We are thinking of upgrading to a Ford Territory, in this vehicle we fit 3 Infa Convertible Boosters without an issue, we plan on having our children remaining in these seats until over the age of 10 years. The long a child is in a restraint the better in my opinion.

I would love to hear from other parents on their 3 across solutions and also Ford Territory owners.

Posted by nicole_pfeiffer, 24th August 2013

8 Comments

- - mom81879 said
  - 23 Sep 2015
    11:46 am
Never had this dilemma :/ Had never really considered it either, most likely cos we never had to deal with it. Sounds like you have a solution though, although an expensive one :/

- - mom94125 said
  - 06 Jun 2015
    7:11 pm
how did you go with the car and car seats?

- - yoyo70 said
  - 19 Mar 2014
    9:28 am
We had the same issue. We sold the smaller of our 2 cars, kept our commodore, which fit 2 seats & our 10 year old comfortably. We also bought a Honda MDX as it’s 7 seats, as we often have friends travelling with us, so needed the extra 2 seats. I believe the Territory is very good, and spacious.

- - clarebear1983 said
  - 26 Aug 2013
    3:33 pm
I have fit three across in many cars (including special needs car seats) that include Commodore, Corolla, 07 Kluger, and a Captiva.

Usually the key is finding slimline seats such as Hipod Senators (for convertible booster seats) and things like Infa Kompressors or SnS Compaqs for car seats.

- - premmiemum said
  - 25 Aug 2013
    3:05 pm
Yeah its not bad, have heard diesel models are better but ive got petrol. I get 80 litres I think or might be 70 haha to tank and I get between 550 to 600 kms out of tank. Aww cute, would be lovely having 5 week bub again
- mom57522 replied
  
  06 Jan 2015 , 11:06 pm
  So funny…sounds like bloke talk.
- - nicole_pfeiffer said
  - 25 Aug 2013
    12:02 pm
Thanks PremmieMum. Three children is a lot of fun, our little girl is just 5 weeks old and we are very happy, she has really completed our family. the Territory is attractive to us because it has 5 anchor points as standard in the 7 seater. How do you find it on petrol, litres per hundred?

- - premmiemum said
  - 24 Aug 2013
    9:39 pm
I have a ford territory and I love it. I wouldn’t part with it. I only have 2 car seats but do hope to have 3.