MsFacetious
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I have been driving a 2005 Dodge Ram for several months now. It was cheaper than insuring my van seperately. However, with visiting family, more appointments and everything else we are doing... the gas is killing us. We are going through about a tank a week. Sometimes I can make it stretch for 1.5 - 2 weeks. It's $85 to fill it up.
So.... there is a little car that was originally bought for me to drive... but then it wasn't fixed so I didn't drive it. (It has a name - Wobbles. The front end was pretty shakey and it needed new brakes.)
My first car was a 1988 BMW... this is pretty much the same car just with 4 doors instead of 2. However I am still finding myself a little nervous about going from a big truck to a small car.
I was rear ended in my BMW while I was pregnant with my oldest, by someone going 50+ mph... barely scratched my bumper while his Hyundai was totalled.
I have the utmost faith in the older BMW's to protect us. I wouldn't agree to drive a small car unless I was confident in it. The trunk is huge (big enough for a couple of bodies ) so the stroller would still fit along with any other projectiles... after we take care of the tether anchor issue there really is no reason it wouldn't be perfectly safe.
However....there is that false sense of security that comes with being bigger than most of the other vehicles on the road. Knowing that if I got rear ended on the freeway (one of my biggest fears, getting rear ended at a stop by someone going freeway speeds) that there would be the whole bed of the truck before it would get to the kids. Also that the truck is designed to break in half... bed seperating from cab. I love that I have the whole bed to put things in so I don't have to have any projectiles at all in the cab. (We have a lid on the bed.)
Then there was that one accident on Christmas where a Honda was totalled and our truck didn't even have a scratch.
My girl's have Regent's. I have put them in a few older BMW's without an issue. Oh but crap...that was long belt path. Now they are "supposed" to use short belt path. Luckily mine are pre advisory Regents so if I HAVE to I can use long belt path....
However, just in case there is one... I also need to have a backup plan. It will likely be the Nautilus. It wouldn't be awful to have spare seats anyway. For flying and things like that. If someone needs the truck, I have another set of seats in another vehicle. If we do fly we can drive the truck to the airport with the Regents and take the Nautilus' with us. No uninstalling at the airport and reinstalling when we get home... That would be awesome.
I'm just wondering if there would be a safety difference. In going to a smaller car... Regent or Nautilus? I really don't think the SIP would be a big deal because my girl's would have their heads out around the wings 90% of the time anyway. But I wonder if there is something else I'm missing....
(Anything more expensive wouldn't be an option. It would have to either be Apex or Nautilus. Swinging either of those would be hard enough, anything more just isn't possible for another several months.)
Thanks for any thoughts you might have.... :thumbsup:
So.... there is a little car that was originally bought for me to drive... but then it wasn't fixed so I didn't drive it. (It has a name - Wobbles. The front end was pretty shakey and it needed new brakes.)
My first car was a 1988 BMW... this is pretty much the same car just with 4 doors instead of 2. However I am still finding myself a little nervous about going from a big truck to a small car.
I was rear ended in my BMW while I was pregnant with my oldest, by someone going 50+ mph... barely scratched my bumper while his Hyundai was totalled.
I have the utmost faith in the older BMW's to protect us. I wouldn't agree to drive a small car unless I was confident in it. The trunk is huge (big enough for a couple of bodies ) so the stroller would still fit along with any other projectiles... after we take care of the tether anchor issue there really is no reason it wouldn't be perfectly safe.
However....there is that false sense of security that comes with being bigger than most of the other vehicles on the road. Knowing that if I got rear ended on the freeway (one of my biggest fears, getting rear ended at a stop by someone going freeway speeds) that there would be the whole bed of the truck before it would get to the kids. Also that the truck is designed to break in half... bed seperating from cab. I love that I have the whole bed to put things in so I don't have to have any projectiles at all in the cab. (We have a lid on the bed.)
Then there was that one accident on Christmas where a Honda was totalled and our truck didn't even have a scratch.
My girl's have Regent's. I have put them in a few older BMW's without an issue. Oh but crap...that was long belt path. Now they are "supposed" to use short belt path. Luckily mine are pre advisory Regents so if I HAVE to I can use long belt path....
However, just in case there is one... I also need to have a backup plan. It will likely be the Nautilus. It wouldn't be awful to have spare seats anyway. For flying and things like that. If someone needs the truck, I have another set of seats in another vehicle. If we do fly we can drive the truck to the airport with the Regents and take the Nautilus' with us. No uninstalling at the airport and reinstalling when we get home... That would be awesome.
I'm just wondering if there would be a safety difference. In going to a smaller car... Regent or Nautilus? I really don't think the SIP would be a big deal because my girl's would have their heads out around the wings 90% of the time anyway. But I wonder if there is something else I'm missing....
(Anything more expensive wouldn't be an option. It would have to either be Apex or Nautilus. Swinging either of those would be hard enough, anything more just isn't possible for another several months.)
Thanks for any thoughts you might have.... :thumbsup: