3 in grandma's car with weird seat

I've been wracking my brain the last few days trying to come up with a setup for my mom for September when my two youngest (then 3yo and 4yo) will need to be picked up from preschool by her 1-2x/week. My mom drives a 2008 Infiniti M35x. Currently she has a literider for my 6yo and a Decathalon that the other two both use that will expire in November. When she has both littles I install one of my other seats, whichever isn't installed somewhere else at the moment. (99% of the time she only has one or two kids at a time)

Problem is, I'd like to set them up center and outboard so that she still has room for my 6yo, and the 6yo would need to be outboard for the headrest. She doesn't drive the 6yo regularly, but I still want to be able to make that quick "hey can you go get S in 20 minutes?" phone call.

The middle seat is HARD. The seat itself is a hard lump and the back can fold down into an armrest with cupholders. I've done three-acrosses with the literider, decathalon center, and radian before. I'd really like to be able to use combination seats, or at least one combination seat. I'd really LOVE to put in two nautilus' and call it a day, but they certainly won't fit with the literider, too. Wondering if maestro's would work. Or maestro and MR maybe? Any ideas?

Budget...eh whatever if it's a good seat.
3yo is really little, like 34.5" and 24ish pounds?
4yo is 37 pounds, 36"
6yo is a giant, hence the literider (used to have nauti in booster mode, outgrown)

What about a maestro without the cupholders? You can use it in harness mode without them. Someone posted on here about it.

That's kinda what I was thinking. Anyone know if it would work with the hump? Or that the center seat would be higher than the other because of the hump?

Evenflo doesn't approve of taking off the cupholders anymore since they don't give out the caps.

Wenjdy

wendytthomas said:

Evenflo doesn't approve of taking off the cupholders anymore since they don't give out the caps.

Wenjdy

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OOO, good to know! I was thinking about giving my mom one of my radians for 3yo since I don't really "need" to have it in the van. I could put anything there. That would be better for the little one anyway. Plus, then I get to keep whatever's new

Would a maestro puzzle next to the radian in the center? RF and FF? I've also been staring down the new thread about the Guide 65 and how narrow it is. Any thoughts?

will the radian fit center? if not, what about trying (go to store without kids and if you have to buy it to try it, buy it and try it right there in the parking lot in case you have to turn back around if there isn't a BRU or other high-end store where they will let you try before buying) Radian, Maestro, literider?

otherwise, if the Radian worked in the center, you may have the space outboard (since outboard tends to offer more room) for the Maestro.