Car Seat bases? Isofix? Non Isofix?

[Kayleigh Lou]

Weve just bought a Renault Scenic . BUT It doesnt have Isofix points so i therefore cant use any base that uses these points.

Is there such a thing as a base i can strap into the seat using the seat belt and the car seat just clicks in?


I already have a maxi cosi baby seat. But the whole isofix, cabrio fix, easy fix is just confusing the hell out of me

 

[5-a-side]

I have a Grand Scenic and we brought the belted base for our carseat (Britax though) went we tried them out the belted one just seemed to fix in alot better than the Isofix one.
I dont know if that helps you but we went to Kiddicare and Mothercare to try bits out first and they give great advice too.

 

[shelleney]

Hi Hun.

I have the MaxiCosi Cabriofix Baby Carseat.
And I use the MaxiCosi Easybase2.

This is not an Isofix base. It is a base that straps into your car using the seatbeat, and you can then just click your carseat into it each journey.

We have been using it for 6 weeks now, and its brilliant. It was easy to install using the seatbelt, and its so quick and easy to click the carseat in.

Here's a link to it, we bought ours from Halfords....
Hope that helps?

https://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs..._productId_766501_langId_-1_categoryId_165764

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

I dont actually know what car seat i have

I bought it second hand and it just says Maxi Cosi on it. I may pop into halfords and just cry help

Thank you ladies, im just glad there is a base that just straps in as getting baby into the middle seat is going to be a struggle as it is

 

[shelleney]

Have you got a photo of the carseat? you could post it on here and see if anyone recognises it?

 

[diamondgem27]

Yeah its the easybase one. You can also strap the isofix ones in too using the seatbelt as I have isofix points but my mum doesn't so when we put the base in her car we can just strap it in x

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

Here we are

 

[Buttercup84]

We have the britax babysafe seat and the isofix and belted bases aren't compatible with my bf's ford fusion so we're using the isofix base in my honda jazz and just using the seatbelt with no base to secure the seat in the fusion. It's really easy to do and I would think you can do this with a maxicosi seat too.

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

We have the britax babysafe seat and the isofix and belted bases aren't compatible with my bf's ford fusion so we're using the isofix base in my honda jazz and just using the seatbelt with no base to secure the seat in the fusion. It's really easy to do and I would think you can do this with a maxicosi seat too.

I really wanted a base as strapping baby in each time in the middle seat is going to be difficult. Not impossible but if the base make things easier id rather have one iykwim.

 

[Jellybaby100]

I think you can just strap the seat in to the car without a base? We've bought the Maxi Cosi pebble, plus the Family fix base (altogether £300 - ouch!) as my BMW 1 series has isofix. OH dosn;t have Isofix (Mercedes SLK) but the website for seat checking states that his car cannot have any type of car seat except for the Mercedes own one, which is at least £600 - I refuse to pay out £900 on car seats!!!

Would be interested to know though if there is such a 'fix base' that doesn;t need isofix!

JB xx

 

[diamondgem27]

I think you can just strap the seat in to the car without a base? We've bought the Maxi Cosi pebble, plus the Family fix base (altogether £300 - ouch!) as my BMW 1 series has isofix. OH dosn;t have Isofix (Mercedes SLK) but the website for seat checking states that his car cannot have any type of car seat except for the Mercedes own one, which is at least £600 - I refuse to pay out £900 on car seats!!!

Would be interested to know though if there is such a 'fix base' that doesn;t need isofix!

JB xx

Hi hun the easy fix base by maxi-cosi is a non isofix base. All the isofix bases can also act as non isofix so your family fix base will be able to be secured without the isofix points and just with a seatbelt.

They have to make all isofix bases compatible with cars that don't have the isofix points which many older cars don't x

 

[dragonhawk]

With regards to the lady whose husband has the Fusion, if you particularly want to use the the isofix base, Ford garages will retro-fit isofix to cars that don't have it as standard, so long as it isn't too old.

We had it done to my husband's Focus (I think the dates have to be approx 2004+) and it takes them about an hour. I sat and watched the England Rugby game whilst I waited.

 

[Buttercup84]

They have to make all isofix bases compatible with cars that don't have the isofix points which many older cars don't x

Not in my experience. None of the isofix bases I checked (Britax, Cybex Aton and Maxicosi) are compatible with my bf's car (Ford Fusion) according to the manufacturer's list of cars. I have the Britax isofix base and can confirm that it definitely doesn't fit as there is no other way of securing it than isofix. Britax do a belted base but even that isn't compatible in any of the back seats as the seatbelts in the fusion are too short.

 

[Buttercup84]

With regards to the lady whose husband has the Fusion, if you particularly want to use the the isofix base, Ford garages will retro-fit isofix to cars that don't have it as standard, so long as it isn't too old.

We had it done to my husband's Focus (I think the dates have to be approx 2004+) and it takes them about an hour. I sat and watched the England Rugby game whilst I waited.

We asked about this at a Ford garage as the car needed a few other bits of work doing to it and apparently the fusion and fiesta are the only models that can't have isofix retro-fitted. Shame! I was a bit worried about just using the seatbelt and whether I was definitely doing it properly at first but after some practice runs I feel more confident now

 

[dragonhawk]

Oh, I'm sorry Buttercup. That's weird though, as I'm sure that I had found the instructions on how to do it with a Fusion, which is what made me wonder if it was possible with hubby's Focus.