Fitting 3 car seats in a midsize sedan
What are the narrowest, safest, most inexpensive car seats and/or booster seats available? We've got 2 2-year-olds and one 4-year-old looking to share a backseat in a mid-size sedan.
I'm thinking the 4-year-old is just big enough for a booster seat, possibly a backless booster seat, and maybe that could solve our overlapping armest / doors won't close issues. Any reason not to go with a booster? IIHS 2010 Recommendations seems to indicate they're safe enough.
Currently looking at the Graco TurboBooster (which conveniently has a great price ~$25, and gets good recs on Amazon, and good reviews in Consumer Reports, but the backless version is only listed in the mid-range - good for only some kids, some cars - on the IIHS list) or this Harmony or Evenflo one which both got better ratings in the IIHS list. Anyone know which is the narrowest at armrest height?
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For what it's worth, we tried just getting a backless Graco Turbo Booster, and found that it just barely fit with our 2 existing car seats. For ease of use and peace of mind, we went ahead and ordered two Sunshine Radian 65 seats - the narrowest carseats we could find. Now the 3 seats fit so well that we wonder why we didn't just order these from the beginning (and why all the other carseats are so d*** wide).
