Trembler
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- July 11, 2011
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- 2011 XLT
Greetings all,
I recently became the father of twins and they are coming home from the hospital. I wanted to post a question to those who may have kids and need to use a car seat.
We purchased the Chico keyfit 30 and I went to install them in the explorer. In my XLT we have the second row bench and I found that I have to have the front seats very far forward to accommodate the car seat. Not sure if I will be able to drive with the car seats installed and I am only 5'10". This is pretty disappointing as it was one of the main reasons for the vehicle purchase.
My question is if anyone else has had a similar experience or is it particular to the model of car seat we bought?
In my mind, the engineers didn't think to bring a car seat into the consideration for 2nd row seat specs? Also if you didn't know, there are no LATCH attachments for the middle seat on the 2nd row bench.
I recently became the father of twins and they are coming home from the hospital. I wanted to post a question to those who may have kids and need to use a car seat.
We purchased the Chico keyfit 30 and I went to install them in the explorer. In my XLT we have the second row bench and I found that I have to have the front seats very far forward to accommodate the car seat. Not sure if I will be able to drive with the car seats installed and I am only 5'10". This is pretty disappointing as it was one of the main reasons for the vehicle purchase.
My question is if anyone else has had a similar experience or is it particular to the model of car seat we bought?
In my mind, the engineers didn't think to bring a car seat into the consideration for 2nd row seat specs? Also if you didn't know, there are no LATCH attachments for the middle seat on the 2nd row bench.