Do you have a toyota troop carrier 11 seater car?

[Anila]

My hubby is interested in getting a toyota troop carrier 11 seater, and was wondering what your experiance has been with this car, good or bad.
We have not seen one up close only online and i am wanting to know how a baby seat or 2 fit in the car as the seats are sideways and i dont see any anchor points?

Also how do you find it with no side doors and having to get the kids in and out via the back door.

TIA

[TheBear]

There are no anchorages for child or baby seats, although I have seen them modified so a row of rear facing seats is added immediately behind the first row of seats and could be used for mounting child seats - you would need to get an engineer to sign off on the modification.

The lack of side door isn't usually a problem, kids are quite happy scrambling in and out of the back door - although it useful to have a box, or step fitted to the back bumper as it can be long way off the ground.

We've been away camping with some people that use one to move their seven children around, and it seemed to work reasonably well for them.

[Ellibam]

all car seats/ capsules say not to be used in side ways seats,
have you looked at the toyota hiace?? same amount of seats i think but like a normal people mover in the way of seating

[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.

[alioops]

It is illegal to have a baby seat on a rear facing or sideways car seat. they have to be on a forward facing seat. That is whay they are not fitted with anchor points unless they are configured to all face forwards. When all of your kidlets are out of baby seats it should be great but not so easy with babies.

If you are looking for a 4 wheel drive there are some 11 seaters with forward facing seats but they are rare and will take a bit of work to find them. It will be almost impossible to get one second hand (sorry, speaking from experience).