Car seat ideas for Chrysler T&C?

[NurseAshley711]

I haven't bought a new seat in at least a year, so when I went car seat browsing I was surprised by all the new seats.

Our dd is 6 yrs old, 48 lbs, and 46" tall. She rides in a harnessed Nautilus; just moved to the top slots, and a hb Turbo. She's only just starting to get less wiggly and sleepy in the car to where I feel comfortable letting her booster. Ds is 2 yrs old, 31 lbs, 36" tall, rear facing in a CA. We have a little guy due in just a few weeks. He'll be in ods Discovery infant seat at first. My husband is an otr truck driver and I'm only 5'3" so we don't have an issue with the handle position. We have quite a few of dds' older seats expiring, so in a few months we'll need to buy a new convertible for some one. Our babies usually start out in the 7-8 lb range and quickly chunk up and outgrow the infant seat around 4 mo.

A Radian is probably out of our price range. I had planned to buy a Scenera with the 40 lb rf'ing limit for the baby; but I haven't been able to find one? The Guide65 seems nice? Or another CA? I'm really just out of the convertible seat loop, so any suggestions would be helpful. I'm not really looking at a Britax seat or a MR. We have a Classic Marathon expiring in December. Not enough rfing height for our kiddos.

We have a Chrysler T&C with captains in the 2nd row and the 50/50 split bench in the 3rd row. Right now dd is in the third row and the boys are in the captains; but I'm not sure how this will work when yds outgrows the infant seat. So puzzling recommendations would be welcome. My dh tried switching the captains and bench to see if I could get 3 across; but the Nauti was too wide for any configuration I tried with any of these seats; CA, Scenera, Uptown, Discovery. I didn't try with the Turbo, because she wasn't sitting still at that point to consider full time boostering. We only have one vehicle so the car seats are rarely moved.

Thanks!

 

[Jessica61624]

I would recommend the evenflo Titan 65. It will be out by the time you need it. 40lbs rf, 65lbs FF and 19in top slots(taller than the nautilus!). Price range is $79-99.

 

[henrietta]

I would recommend the evenflo Titan 65. It will be out by the time you need it. 40lbs rf, 65lbs FF and 19in top slots(taller than the nautilus!). Price range is $79-99.

I haven't heard this yet. Where did you hear that they are revamping the Titan to have 19" top slots? I can't imagine that it could be done that easily...it's not a big seat at all...I'd think they'd just make a whole new seat or they'd base one that size on the Triumph/Momentum. The new Titans went to 50 lbs a while back, but I didn't think they made them taller or with taller top slots. What did I miss?

Thanks!

henrietta

 

[Jessica61624]

I haven't heard this yet. Where did you hear that they are revamping the Titan to have 19" top slots? I can't imagine that it could be done that easily...it's not a big seat at all...I'd think they'd just make a whole new seat or they'd base one that size on the Triumph/Momentum. The new Titans went to 50 lbs a while back, but I didn't think they made them taller or with taller top slots. What did I miss?

Thanks!

henrietta

http://carseatblog.com/17709/with-love-pictures-from-lifesavers-orlando/

 

[tarynsmum]

I haven't heard this yet. Where did you hear that they are revamping the Titan to have 19" top slots? I can't imagine that it could be done that easily...it's not a big seat at all...I'd think they'd just make a whole new seat or they'd base one that size on the Triumph/Momentum. The new Titans went to 50 lbs a while back, but I didn't think they made them taller or with taller top slots. What did I miss?

Thanks!

henrietta

Remember how Evenflo had both the Triumph (triumph 5, LX, DX, etc etc)that was wildly popular then came out with the Triumph Advance that was totally different (better, but different for the average person)? This is the same company, don't forget. I don't know why they just call a new seat by a new name, and only use one name per seat.