J.Seven

I´ve a 996 Cab, and I would like to be able to ride with my wife and 5 month old baby. Untill now I´ve been making short rides with the infant carrier and baby sitting sideways on the back seat wish is not safe , but I would like to buy a proper child seat that would fit on the rear seat. Is there anything available? Thanks in advance.

This is indeed very small

Riad

I have the Porsche infant seat (for children up to 30lbs?) and I had them install the airbag deactivation kit so the car seat can be used in the front seat. I put the seat in the back of my cabriolet one time as a test and my wife had to pull the passenger seat up so far it was uncomfortable.

I've never tried to do it in my coupe but I know there is a little more room there. We have the family rx-330 truckster and I don't think we will all ride in the Porsche until my girl is old enough to sit in the back seat without a child seat.

Rob-

J.Seven

I can ride with the infant child seat on the back, and my wife still has room enough in the front, but my infant seat is not from Porsche.

J.Seven

J.Seven

Riad , how much did you pay for desactivation of the air bag including labour? Thanks in advance.

J.Seven

Riad

By law Porsche is required to install it for free... but your child seat has to have the deactivation buckle.

Riad

Do you have a coupe or cab? Does make a difference.

J.Seven

riad it´s a Cab.

J.Seven

jcnesq

I had the Porsche toddler seat for my Boxster S. Dealer installs free (must install hardware under seat AND reprogram computer). I just put the seat in my 4-day old '04 Targa back seat; its tight but my wife is OK with the legroom. Riad, you're going to have a long wait if you wait until your daughter is old enough to ride with no child seat. Porsche makes a booster seat which I'll need in another year or so, next step up from the toddler seat I have now. Don't deprive your daughter for so long - get the Porsche seat and squeeze everybody in!

Bill_C4S

BTW - you can disable the airbag using the passenger seat buckle. doing so enables you to use a wider range of car seats than the Porsche option. The hassle is anytime you restart you must reinsert the passenger seat buckle.

www.carnewal.com carries the deactivation bar as a solo item.

Riad

I have the toddler child seat as well, right now it's installed in my Lexus. You know I would rather take my daughter in the car and leave my wife at home anyway.

earlyapex

Britax makes the seats for Porsche and BMW. If you plan to keep your child in the back seat you can get the Roundabout, which is good to 30lbs. My 2 year old sits in a Britax Marathon in the right rears seat. I took out the seat cushion so that the Britax fits more securely.

Firewired

I purchased the middle Porsche (toddler) carseat from Sun Coast Porsche about two weeks ago. They had the seat significantly cheaper than my local dealer. The Porsche car seats are incidentally made by Britax specially to fit in the Porsche seats. Porsche just recently released new versions of their car seats Here is a link to the Porsche site with info on the three different seats they have:

http://www2.us.porsche.com/english/u...indersitze.htm

J.Seven

earlyapex , which is best to fit on the rear seat, the Marathon or the Roundbout? do you have any pics of your Britax seat in the back of your 996? Is your 996 a Cab? I have a Cab, do you think it will fit?

From the picture below you can see the two Britax seats, Marathon and Roundabout. The plastic base of the Marathon seems to be much smaller than the Roundabout, who makes me believe that the Marathon will fit better than the Roundabount due to this smaler base size.

The Marathon is the seat on the right, and as you can see it has a smaler base than the Roundabout.

Here´s the two plastic bases from under. The Marathon is on the right


Let me know your opinion on this. Thanks.

J.Seven

Wachuko

I am hoping you took the baby out for that last photo...

Riad

Holy crap that's funny.