what's the problem of fitting 2 car seats at the backseat? you have plenty of space with 1 car seat on each side. But surely the middle seat will be very tight.

what sedan car are you sitting in and whats the current carseat model?

bring some toys and some other things to distract ur baby, and make those toys only available in the car. means that ur baby can only play those toys in the car while sitting in the car seat. Make the toy "exclusive", and he/she will appreciate it whenever sitting on the car seat. However, it does not work on babies that are too young to play...

hi, i am using a joie stages car seat for my elder boy for almost 1 year.
the difference between stages and every stage is that every stage can be used up to 12 years old while stages only up to 7 years old.

my son is 2 yrs old now, will have backache if sitting in the stages for 2 hours straight. Added some padding to the seat and so far ok for 2 different trips of straight 2.5 hours.

the only thing i don't like it at this moment is the padding on the strap cannot be removed for washing purpose.

The stages is quite big, and i think the every stage might be slightly bigger.

Depends on you if you need a car seat to fit up to 12 years old or not.

How much difference in terms of pricing between this 2 models?

Koopers Flamenco seems to be hot to sit in, the padding is not mesh type i think...
Anyway, it looks similar to stages and every stage.

If you were to choose stages, do take note of the production date.. the stages has different batch... it is in the market for many years. earlier years stages has some problem, i had forgotten whats the problem dy, maybe u can search for it online.

I haven't tested an ISOFIX car seat before, but what i know is that ISOFIX car seat will be bigger. I had no problem using car seat without ISOFIX, just make sure it is properly installed and fitted to the car.

Btw, i am using it in my company car Almera, so i am taking in and out very often. Legroom of the car is quite important as it looks cramped if I fix it in my wife's Proton Savvy. It looks comfy in the Almera even when the front passenger seat is not pulled furthest away from the backseat.

There is a s/n sticker with some code on it.
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2013/09/safety...t-recall-334179
How does the 'latch' thing looks like and how is it fastened?


I let my boy to choose when trying on Joie and Graco. He didn't make any decision because he don't like to sit in car seat, ended up we decide for him...

The stroller that can fits in infant seat usually is quite bulky, more expensive and requires some converter/adaptor to fit the infant seat in which is not cheap either. If that is not your concern, you may go ahead with it.

Most likely you will need to buy the infant seat that can be fitted into the stroller, and getting another convertible car seat when ur baby outgrown it few months later

oic.. how does it look like? is it like a belt with a hook?

nice... mine does not comes with that, mine comes with a big clip but i don't know what it is for..lol..

For front facing or rear facing?
I haven't use it for rear facing as my boy skipped that 1st stage of the joie stages.

For safety: middle - safe from collision from both sides of the vehicle
For better child view: middle - can see more in child point of view. (Front facing, 2yrs and above)

The important thing is that your seatbelt must be suitable if you were to fix it in the middle of the passenger seat, and your child must be secured properly in the car seat.

Configuration that I had fixed before (Front facing):
Fixing in front seat (without airbag in front seat) - for short to medium distance drive, only me and my child in car
Fixing in middle of rear seat - for medium to long distance drive. troublesome if taking in and out the car seat often. Safer to take out the child from the car as you can sit in the car, carry the child out first then only get down the car as compared to open the door and take ur child down when you have your car parked beside a busy road. Both me and my wife can look at him with the rear-view mirror.
Fixing in back of the front passenger seat: - My usual configuration as i have 2 child now, need 2 car seats at the back.