Who's using a Child Seat in their e30?

[ForcedFirebird]

Just realized my children are now ranging from 13 to 21 years old, and I have been posting about e30's since they were in diapers lol.

[Ana_e30_touring]

Hi i am a mom with a 2,5 years old daughter my e30 is my daily and i had different child seats some Big ones that flip 360° dont remember the Brandt but they was realy Big and Sunshine (my daughter) had no legroom at all.
now i got a cybex concord transformer T and its awsome its flat and easy to make the belt around even with little Space in the e30

[rjmcdermott81]

I've now used rear facing, front facing and booster seats in my coupe. For rear facing I kept the seat in the middle because they are so big. I've always used Graco which are much smaller than Britax. For some reason Britax thinks everyone drives a suburban. Use the center belt for the forward facing car seat as well and then my son now in his booser uses the shoulder belt.

[DunDeal07]

Here's one of my posts from a few pages back....



Video: https://youtu.be/e2QKoVaHJAM

I have read every article and watched all videos and you have confirmed it all. I appreciate you take time to help me out.

[mike.bmw]

Thanks for the reply. I have to put him rear facing. And The fact that our seat belts don’t lock when you pull it all out make me wonder if the lap belt would be a better option. I just bought a Britax with the click tight and it is massive. What car seat did you use?

Here's one of my posts from a few pages back....

Thread revival!

The E30s have ELR type retractors (Emergency Locking Retractors). This means that they will lock when yanked, but they won't ratchet/lock if you pull them ALL the way out and slowly feed them back in. You'll need a locking clip to make this a safe install:

https://csftl.org/when-to-use-a-locking-clip/

Video: https://youtu.be/e2QKoVaHJAM

[DunDeal07]

Passenger side, regular belt. Both of mine are in forward facing seats now. Makes it MUCH easier to get them in and out of the back seat.

Thanks for the reply. I have to put him rear facing. And The fact that our seat belts don’t lock when you pull it all out make me wonder if the lap belt would be a better option. I just bought a Britax with the click tight and it is massive. What car seat did you use?

[mike.bmw]

HI everyone sorry fo reserecting this back up but need some setup advise? I will soon need to take my son who is 10 months old to the babysitter and the only form of transport is my 89 coupe. I plan on putting him in the back in rear facing. I wanted to ask did guys put them in the middle with just the lap belt or passenger side with the regular belt? Thanks!

Passenger side, regular belt. Both of mine are in forward facing seats now. Makes it MUCH easier to get them in and out of the back seat.

[e30davie]

I found in my coupe that if i put the baby seat on the side it touched the front seats (I have FD rx7 seats that don't go forward as much as oem). So i put him in the center lap belt. That also made it easier putting the little fella in and out of the car as I could sit on the side seat and lift him into the car seat.

The other thing is in my car i only had a rear center attachment in the parcel shelf,which meant i had to put him in the centre anyway. I dunno if all countries require the center attachment in the parcel shelf, but Australia does.

[DunDeal07]

HI everyone sorry fo reserecting this back up but need some setup advise? I will soon need to take my son who is 10 months old to the babysitter and the only form of transport is my 89 coupe. I plan on putting him in the back in rear facing. I wanted to ask did guys put them in the middle with just the lap belt or passenger side with the regular belt? Thanks!

[cheffy30]

raised two boys in my e30. they fucked it up good! dueling car seats in the rear for years...
then i restored it before their very eyes and now it's pure respect...

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[mike.bmw]

Glad the info on the seat belt locks helped you out.

I am counting the days until we can turn my son's rear facing seat around. My son turns 2 in a couple months. It is such a challenge getting him in the rear facing seat in a coupe that has 2 cars in the back seat. My daughter will be graduating a backless booster soon.

[mdale7]

Resurrecting this post because I just bought my first E30! Thanks for the helpful link to the post with part numbers for the rear and the discussion about the locking mechanism in the E30 seat belts.

To the poster who doesn't think kids belong in fun cars, I've installed car seats in all my "fun" cars so my two little guys could ride along in "Papa's car" with me. We had a rear-facing seat in my '93 MR2 for my firstborn (bought the car when he was still in utero because a growing family needs to have a two-seater), sold the MR2 when I bought my '00 Z3M Coupe. Both boys have been forward-facing in that car.

They're really excited about the E30 because "papa, this one has seats for both of us!!!"

We love to go to C&C events together, and they also come to cheer when I do a local AutoX event.

Props to all the moms and dads out there who are raising little petrolheads by showing how much fun one can have in a car.

[robrez]

Says right there...

[geovangelist]

Its good to know that car seats will fit in the rear of a coupe however I am glad I have my sedan. It just makes it that much easier to fit a squirming toddler into the rear.

Agreed. If we didn't have a family car with 4 doors, it would get pretty tedious to be in and out of the back seat with a squirming toddler on a regular basis. For a BMWCCA event, it wasn't too bad:)

[superj]

Not sadly, its time to start working on their e30s.

Both of my kids have their own e30s now