My brain is fried trying to configure my seats/car. Please advise.

geberika

CPS Technician
I have a 2001 Ford Windstar with two bench seats. Both bench seats are lap/shoulder and LATCH outboard, and lap-only middle.

I have five kids: 8yo twins in Parkways, a 6yo in a FF Radian65, a 3yo in a RF RadianXTSL and a 3mo in an Orbit G2 :love:. I have several other seats also.

The setup was second row: Orbit outboard, Parkway outboard.

Third row: FF Radian 65 (lap/shoulder), RF Radian XTSL, Parkway.

However, I cannot get a good install with that RF Radian -- seatbelts are too far back, even with twisting the stalk. When I try it FF, it's too wide for the kid in the Parkway to buckle.

Also, my 6yo in the FF Radian is very long-torso'ed, and I just got a Frontier85 for participating in a Britax study. So I was planning to put 6yo in the Frontier85. Obvs it's too wide for a Parkway to buckle next to it.

So, is my only choice to do a second row of PW/Orbit/PW, and a third row of RF XTSL and F85? I love that the Orbit twists on the base and this kills that feature of it.
 
ADS

melniemi

New member
Can you do second row rf xtsl/orbit/pw and third row pw/fr85? When I had pw/ma/pw, my boys would slide their arms behind the pw wings to grab the buckle and then use their other hand to buckle it - only way they could reach, but they got used to it and it wasn't an issue.
 

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