Car seat placement question

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I'm going to be taking my 2 year old nephew one night this week. I also have a 3 and 5 years old in car seats. I drive a 2008 Honda Civic so there's no way I'll be able to fit the three car seats together in the backseat.. so the question is who would be the safest in the front seat with the airbag off? My 5 year old is in a britax pioneer and my 3 year old is in a mysize 65. Would it be safer to rearface her in the front seat since there isn't anywhere to top tether a forward facing seat?
 
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jjordan

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1000000% no to rear facing in front of an active air bag (even if it has a sensor that says it has been deactivated). Put the 5 year old in front if you can't or don't want to buy new seats. If you want to go shopping, there is probably a way to get 3 across.
 

ketchupqueen

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If you can manually use a key or toggle switch to turn the airbag off, rear facing *would* be safer- that's generally only available in older trucks, pre-sensor-era. Unless you've had a retrofit switch installed with a waiver? Other than that, what she said :)
 

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