Thanks Jourdysmom
Widgetwick, what year is your van? We only drive ours a few times a year. Normally I just use the Safari & DH drives his own car.
1. If you read your manual, it will tell you you're not
supposed to put 3 car seats in one row. It's on one of the pages that shows tether anchor locations. No-one at Chevy has ever been able to explain this to me. The best I can figure is that it's because they think people will put 3 seats on 2 tethers. I have chosen to ignore it when necessary, but just wanted you to know it's in the manual.
2. Aftermarket headrests... I've been told "no" by Chevy and by several conversion places because of liability. BUT Chex knows someone who has a solution for the non-shoulder-belt benches. Unfortunately she has all shoulder-belt benches, but is working on another solution for that (welding on permanent headrests). I have the benches with a lap belt in the middle, so I'm currently working on finding someone who is willing to drill holes in the top bar & install headrest sleeves. I'll let you know if I get anywhere with it.
3. You can absolutely fit 3-across. You might have to go with Radians. Or 2 Radians & a MyRide. I can go out & try some of my seats later today & see how they do with 3-across. At the moment, I only need 2 seats in each row.
4. Do you have all shoulder belts in the very back? I'm assuming you have the Frontiers installed with the long belt path. The seatbelt anchors are so far forward of the bight that I find them incompatible with some FF seats, so watch out for that.
5. Could you list how tall & heavy all your kids are? If any of your kiddos are over 65lbs, they need their Frontiers tethered. Since you don't have tethers in the back row, you may have to do some re-arranging.
ETA: I found your old thread. I thought this sounded familiar
. A 2008, so all shoulder belts. Here's a thread about headrests:
http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=167842
Your 10yo either needs a tether anchor or go to booster mode, and your 7yo is getting pretty close to the limit.