Anyone with a Honda CRV and 3 car seats?

[kj+2]

Hi, new here, and was looking for 3 across in a CRV when I came across this message.
I have a 2007 CRV, ie the newer shape, and have 2 kids in SNS hi-liners.
Your concern about fitting 3 boosters eventually is what I am trying to do now. I need to fit a 3rd booster in, just for transporting cousins and friends.
Three seats would fit OK except that the stupid CRV designers have put the buckle for the centre rear seat about 10cm towards the centre of the car instead of next to the buckle for the window seat (IYKWIM). This means that although a child restraint will physically fit, it sits right on top of the buckle, so the seatbelt can't be done up. You can kind of manage with a fixed car seat but not a booster that needs doing and undoing every trip. AAHHH!!!
I have investigated seat belt extenders, but these are illegal for use with child restraints and RTA engineers say they may cause severe injury.
Tomorrow I am taking the car to a seat belt fitting station to investigate getting the actual buckle replaced with a longer one and moved over. If they'll do it I'll post the success story.
Also, we had to change from a maxirider to the hiliner because the MR was too wide to allow the seatbelt to be buckled in once it was being used as a booster. For your 3 across, I think the only likely options are 2 compaq's and a hi-liner or infa vario, the safest and narrowest boosters, with the booster on the window side. But try them first, because getting your hand in to do up the buckle is the trickiest part and you can't tell from measurements how manageable that will be.
Good luck!
I love my CRV but wouldn't advise buying the newer shape if you might ever want 3 seats. It looks more spacious than it is!

[minimatron]

Hey kj+2.... I had my dd3 back in October and have had seats in since then. I have a hi liner, a compaq and a unity capsule (tight fit). I sold my maxi rider because it definately did not fit and got the hi liner instead. However, I had to make sure I got them sitting in the right combination for it to work! Ideally I would have had baby in the middle, but it just did not work, so I have capsule behind the driver, compaq with dd2 in the middle and dd1 in the hi liner behind the passenger. It all had to work arounsd the hi liner so that I could get my hand down to buckle her in and that was the only spot that worked. Its still a very tight squeeze. I will be taking the capsule out soon as dd3 is getting too heavy for me to carry around in it and will replace it with another compaq (rear facing of course). That should free up some of the tight squeeze.
Thanks for replying. I have seen the new crv and they are much smaller than mine!