Do you have a toyota troop carrier 11 seater car?

[TheBear]

Found a web page the describes one way of retrofitting the required anchorages - http://remotehealthatlas.nt.gov.au/p...f_fittings.pdf

[LaDeeDa]

my IL'S always had a troopy about a late 70's model used with 4 kids and then also family day care
I don't know about the car seats .... but i'd have to warn you - i reckon a semi trailer would be easier to drive. ...LOL

[Anila]

Thanks for the replies, i forgot about the "not putting carseat in sideways" rule, but other than that does any one know how they run, are they costly etc.

[LaDeeDa]

Hi Lisa,

It depends on how you run it (city or highway) k's but if your looking at a diesel model without long range tanks your probably looking at about 4-600k's per tank.....

what model are you looking at getting ?

[Anila]

what model are you looking at getting ?

He is not sure, he wants something that will tow a boat and hold all the kids as we are trying to expand the family, problem is that we still have 2 in baby seats.We also need it to be the family car when we all go out after we eventually have #6 as my car is a 7 seater only.

[LaDeeDa]

thats fair enough.....

i don't know how you'd get around the baby seats though..... i'm pretty sure you'd have to get them front facing seats put in and have them engineered......

DF says to look at a '91' troopy if thats in your price range - they are a big step up with power steering etc (much nicer than ours ...LOL)
he said to make sure you get diesel and the largest engine you can afford and that way you won't have any probs (other than with your fuel bill i reminded him) but there are places now that do diesel gas conversions that don't wreck the engine so thats something that might be worth looking into.

he also said that some models seat 11 with forward facing seats..... i hope this helps

[Anila]

yes thanks doubledee, hubby has fallen asleep on the lounge so when i wake him ill let him know what you said, we thought about a seat conversion but think its way out of our price range.