Frontier in a '99 BMW 323i?

[mommycat]

Title says it all. Anyone know if this is a good combination? The other seat will be a RF Britax Marathon.

Thanks!

[mommycat]

And while we're at it, would a nauti fit better/worse?

[joolsplus3]

Got your note :)

Hmmm...last big things I installed in our BMW (which was a 2000 we owned from 99-2002) were a Marathon and a Super Elite (Regent with no recline bar and must be installed with Long Belt Path...the belt was long enough)... those were a *breeze* to install, not too tall or anything. I did have a lot of troubles with a Breverra in that car, and the Frontier with the Short Belt Path is similar, so I'd guess the big issue would be hoping that the long path has enough seatbelt to do the FR (which takes up more seatbelt than the Super Elite when LBP). I haven't heard of the GN not fitting in any car yet, so I doubt that would be a problem.
I forget if the headrests are removable...? I never had an issue with them with my other seats. And as for vision blocking, the FR will block less for a short kid, but more for a tall kid...though that sounds obvious, lol..the shortest setting on the FR is shorter than the GN. Either way, having kids in the back seat for 14 years is a real view blocker, I just use my side mirrors now (Recaro Starts make it like driving a windowless delivery van, hahaha!)

[mommycat]

Thanks Julie. I had seen this thread (http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=62586) showing how the Nauti wouldn't fit height-wise as a booster in the Mustang, so I was worried about how these seats fit in other vehicles. But in any case, that would be a long way off yet for the little one in question.