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[Jimmy Choo]

We'll just figure it out as we go. Even thick people have kids, it can't be THAT hard.

It must have been fairly hard or you wouldn't be in this mess.

As for car seats, we kept ours in rear facing seats until they grew out of the seat. Then they went in a front facing seats.

The best purchase we made was the bases for the baby seat. It made it so much easier to get them in the cars, rather than faffing about with seatbelts.

[JLv3.0]

We'll just figure it out as we go. Even thick people have kids, it can't be THAT hard.

It must have been fairly hard or you wouldn't be in this mess.

Touché Mr M

[Rich B]

We'll just figure it out as we go. Even thick people have kids, it can't be THAT hard.

It must have been fairly hard or you wouldn't be in this mess.

As for car seats, we kept ours in rear facing seats until they grew out of the seat. Then they went in a front facing seats.

The best purchase we made was the bases for the baby seat. It made it so much easier to get them in the cars, rather than faffing about with seatbelts.

yep, that’s the base I have in mine. We have a swivelling seat in the 320d that has the isofix points as part of the seat.

You end up spending £3-400 each on the fucking things though! Especially when the guilt of even considering choosing anything but the BEST kicks in!

[integrale_evo]

Beany - bear in mind that "comfort access" is the weakness that tea-leaves exploit to get access to the car and its OBD port. Not that I'm convinced an old E46 is going to be top of their shopping list. We've had it disabled on ours.

No e46 has comfort access, you always need to either press the unlock button on the key or turn the key in the lock.

Comfort access is dropping the windows after holding the button or keeping the key turned, no?

Comfort access is the car unlocking as you approach or pull the handle without having to actually touch or use the key.

If someone has worked out how to hack the physical pushing and holding the button or keeping the key turned then they'd already be able to unlock the car and not need to keep it held to drop the windows

[Swervin_Mervin]

Whereas we just bought a baby seat with no isofix and used the seatbelts. £150. Didn't see the point in spending £00s when they're only going to be in the baby seat for a short time anyway. That and it will likely get puke/shite on it at least once and become immediately worthless.

More crucial for us was what fitted - the 1 series isn't blessed with space so we wanted a compact seat/carrier that would at least leave the front passenger some leg room. So we were very specifically after a Cybex Aton IIRC

[Swervin_Mervin]

No e46 has comfort access, you always need to either press the unlock button on the key or turn the key in the lock.

Comfort access is dropping the windows after holding the button or keeping the key turned, no?

Comfort access is the car unlocking as you approach or pull the handle without having to actually touch or use the key.

If someone has worked out how to hack the physical pushing and holding the button or keeping the key turned then they'd already be able to unlock the car and not need to keep it held to drop the windows

Ok, wrong terminology on my part - I can't recall what it was referred to as.

However, my understanding of the thefts was that they were sticking screwdrivers in, holding the lock to get the window to drop, then accessing the ODB port. All of this to ensure the alarm didn't go off. Hence people getting the window drop feature coded off.

[Rich B]

Mines got a relocated OBD port to stop this.

[Mito Man]

Did the BMW security recall fix the problem? Don’t seem to hear about them being stolen much these days.

[ste]

Whereas we just bought a baby seat with no isofix and used the seatbelts.

Same. But ISOFix was possibly less common then. We didn't have a travel system or any of that. I just bought the relevant sized Recaro for them in the colour that most matched the car it was going in to. We got through 5 different Recaros in total, some of which were duplicates as we had more than one in the same age / weight bracket so couldn't hand down.

I do think people make it too complicated nowadays. That's everything though, not just transporting smaller people. Mumsnet guilt seems to overtake common sense.

[PaulJ]

How long should they be rear-facing for? Just asking for, erm, a friend.........

I think it's safe for you to face forwards now JL.

[JLv3.0]

How dare you assume my sobriety

[Swervin_Mervin]

I do think people make it too complicated nowadays. That's everything though, not just transporting smaller people. Mumsnet guilt seems to overtake common sense.

It's astounding what some people are willing to fork out. Each to their own though.

We bought a £50 Mothercare non-ISOfix seat for ours when he became too big for his carrier, mainly as we needed something to take away and didn't want to fork out ££ for something that would be "handled" by the goons employed at Manchester Airport. He liked it so much he was in that for about 12mo before we bought anything more substantial (and ISOfix) for each car.

[Rich B]

I do think people make it too complicated nowadays. That's everything though, not just transporting smaller people. Mumsnet guilt seems to overtake common sense.

It's astounding what some people are willing to fork out. Each to their own though.

[waves]

[Sundayjumper]

One seat is in. Passenger seat will go in tomorrow and hopefully the steering wheel boss will turn up too.

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[GG.]

steering wheel boss

If you can get past that level you'll have it completed in no time

[nuttinnew]

A2 misfire fixed, now it sounds like it's cracked its exhaust manifold

[integrale_evo]

The two extremes of ov9 compact club.

One of us is turning theirs into a race car, one of us is sticking stupid pretend racecar wheels onto their commuter / shopping trolley

[Sundayjumper]

The two extremes of ov9 compact club.

TOO EXTREME.

[Sundayjumper]

We do need to get the two of them together one day.

[mik]

Is that the fuckin 4wd xtreme safari edition? Looks like it us on fuckin stilts mate.