Question how much $ to save?

teekadog

Active member
I'm going to need 3 new seats in about a year's time, so I want to start budgeting for that. How much do you think I need to budget if I don't want money to be a deciding factor when it's time to shop? I was guessing about $400 a seat. That won't afford me a Swedish seat, but would I be silly to try to save *that* much?
 
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NVMBR02

New member
What seats are you looking at getting? I have bought 2 of the three seats I need in the past 8 weeks and spent $230 (parkway sg, coccoro and extra cover). I would like to get one more seat (probably the frontier85 if it works where I need it to in my car, or a nautilus if it ends up in dh's car)
I think $400 per seat is more than you will probably spend. I can't remember the last time I have spent more than $250 per seat.
 

wendytthomas

Admin - CPST Instructor
Staff member
$400 a seat would allow you to buy absolutely anything and then have leftovers. I think the most expensive seat I suggest routinely is $300.

Wendy
 

teekadog

Active member
Thanks for the replies. I don't know what seats I'm looking at, really. Shopping is at least a year away, and seats come and go so quickly, so I'm not going to mess with my head by setting my heart on things now.

I want to make sure I can get whatever I want. I think I'm still smarting from my last car seat shopping go-round when I couldn't afford a Safeguard car seat (the $399 one).

And I still drool over the Swedish seats. I know the US is getting up to speed on erf weight limits, but I drive a Mazda5 so space is tight, and I'm tired of eating the dash in the front seat so my preschoolers can rf behind me.

DH has even joked about getting an Orbit Baby!
 

wendytthomas

Admin - CPST Instructor
Staff member
The Safeguard isn't being made anymore, and the next most expensive seat (short of the Orbit system) is $380. And it's a seat we don't recommend.

Remember in the Mazda5 the second row seats need to be all the way back for carseats. So that gives you a lot of room in the car. I bet you could fit a Radian without too much issue. As I recall the seats are flat a bit and so the Radian should go in not too reclined.

Wendy
 

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