Rear facing child seat

Originally Posted by cossie1600

My wife works from home with the exception of meetings that requires her to go in. I work 1.5 miles from home and daycare is 2.5 miles from home. I literally would only use the Z to transport baby when she has to go into the office or I have to pick up the baby from daycare in an emergency. I can go buy an old Volvo for $4K, but the car would just sit and take up driveway space as I rarely drive the Z or the SUV as is. What is the point of sinking all the money into cars that you don't get to drive?

Regardless, I really am trying to see if anyone can think of any reasons why you shouldn't have a rear facing child seat WITH THE AIRBAG OFF. The curtain airbag and side airbags are deemed to be safe based on all research. On my SUV, they actually recommend the rear seat that has the airbag over the middle seat for proper LATCH mount.

Originally Posted by Haboob

I'm against getting a new (used) car just for that purpose too, don't get me wrong.

However, I'm no expert on babies (thankfully ), but I could see side impact being an issue along with how close it is to the dash/glass?

I've only seen them seated in the middle seat of cars/SUV's, but that could just be the parent's preference or due to space issue w/the seats.

Originally Posted by cossie1600

Yes I agree with the dash comment as hitting a dash might be harder than hitting a front seat. Glass are laminated no?

It all depends on the size of the car. Many cars now don't even put LATCH on the center seat now as the side seats are not that much worse than the center based on new research.