IsoFIX. Could it be done?

[balto8]

I'm concerned about my kids safety when traveling with the 480.

My boy is 2 yo and still needs to use his group 1 chair, wich is fixed by the belt and then some adittional belts hold the boy. My girl is 5 and weights 15.5 kgs, so it is a group 2-3 chair. On her I have to pass the seat belt over her sittting on the elevator chair. But the chair is fixed nowhere. It is an IsoFIX chair.

Could it be feasable to solder IsoFIX moorings to the chasis? Would is suppose any MOT failure? THe fixes would be hidden under the seats back.

[jamescarruthers]

Surely putting an ISOFIX chair in the car using just the seatbelt, which it isn't designed for, is incredibly dangerous!? In the event of an accident, the seat will be loaded up with forces in all the wrong places and who knows what loads will transferred to the child.

As I understand it, Isofix isn't any safer, just more idiot-proof and easier to get in and out of the car.

Could you not just buy a non-ISOFIX seat and put it in with the belt and leave it there?

My friend with a baby borrowed the 480 for a few weeks and just left the seat in, I think, as access isn't the best.

[brinkie]

The 480 hasn't been designed with Isofix in mind, the standard was published in 1999. So you can't and shouldn't use Isofix in a 480. Exactly as James says, get a non-isofix seat and use that. I haven't used Isofix at all, our previous daily driver (Focus) was from 1998 and thus prior to Isofix, and we never bothered to buy Isofix seats for the present one (2008). For my five-year-old daughter I have a booster seat in the back of the 480, and my almost-eleven-year-old can legally sit up front since he's 1m55 (5 feet) tall.
Only for longer drives, we take the seat with backrest from the Focus and put that into the 480.

[balto8]

Yes. I totaly understad the in the event of a front or back crash the ISOFix chair would push the girl against the belt.

My "normal" car is 2012 and has ISOfix that's why I bought that chair in the first place. Then the family needed a second car and I went for the Turbo coffee machine ( generic spanish expression for old, faulty cars). I was thinking maybe someone had done it before and I could save buying another chair, but a new non-ISOfix chair will be.

Thanks !