same here, my son is 8 months old nearly outgrown the cabriofix. Been perfect and so easy to us, using the easyfix base unit which is stuck to the isofix bars all the time - you simply lift a latch to release and lift the seat out. To install just place seat ontop of the easyfix base and clicks in literally seconds. No messing about with car seats, and solid. Very handy when raining to simply lift out and lift in. (the easyfix base is cheaper but only for use on the pebble or cabriofix, the familyfix is more expensive but think it lasts from newborn to bigger seats for the years onwards)

We have the priorifix stored away in garage, always a good idea to keep an eye on sales for future needs. We got the priorifix for aruond £130 from babies r us when they had a discount on, usually £180+ everwhere else. Worth signing up to their mailing list for notification of discounts they have every so often, they sometimes have 20% off everything 2 or 3 times a year, you can then just buy everything you want even before the child is born, longterm it's worth it.

www.hotukdeals.com next best website to keep tabs on, I'm always there on a daily basis.

Sounds like this is a popular combination

Also sounds like priorifix has come down in price - everywhere was £280 when I bought mine. Even better value at the price you paid.

As for changing seats though - leave it as long as possible. It might look like they're crammed in etc but you really want to keep them in the rear facing seat up to a year old unless they're a porker. It might look like their arms and legs are hanging out but as harsh as it sounds those bits are less important than the head and tires which will be much better protected in your cabriofix for the time being.....

Sounds like this is a popular combination

Also sounds like priorifix has come down in price - everywhere was £280 when I bought mine. Even better value at the price you paid.

As for changing seats though - leave it as long as possible. It might look like they're crammed in etc but you really want to keep them in the rear facing seat up to a year old unless they're a porker. It might look like their arms and legs are hanging out but as harsh as it sounds those bits are less important than the head and tires which will be much better protected in your cabriofix for the time being.....

This is why the family fix base is a god send. Our 2nd is very tall, and was crammed in at 9 months, but with the family fix we just moved him back a notch.

There's a wedge you can take out of te bottom of the seat which lowers them, giving more headroom.

Bought a Klippan Triofix for ours, great as it takes a child from 6 months to 12 years and can rear face on isofix up to a certain age weight too. Not cheap @ 400 GBP though

Oh on this note first off until our son was about 13 months old he had a MaxiCosi Cabriofix with an Isofix base, not cheap but made getting the seat in and out of the car a breeze and made it easy to swap between cars.

I bought a couple of MaxiCosi Priori non Isofix seats off a mate whose son had just grown out of them in great condition dirt cheap, gave one to the inlaws and one sits in my Octavia. Only complaint I have is its dented the seat foam and indented the leather but then they all do to some extent......you cant really put anything underneath them as it does compromise its safety from what Ive heard and i guess left out of the car a while its normal shape would return.

A lot of people here with the Maxi Cosi CabrioFix - I'm trying to find a car seat that fits:

 

a) the travel system we are probably going to get,

b )my wife's Fiesta, and then

c) my new car that I don't have yet! It is probably going to be an Octavia II VRS, but the 'Maxi Cosi CabrioFix' is shown as not fitting at all in ANY of the seats. Is this wrong then? Is there much movement? I'm confused!

 

Edit: The site seems to say it fits a pre-facelift but not a facelift car. Are the facelift seats different, or they just haven't tested it? Anyone use a Cabriofix in a facelift post 2010 car?

 

Thanks for any reassurance and help! This is our first child, not here yet but I'm going round in circles trying to get something that all fits together!

Edited 27 July, 201312 yr by TomH

Are you using with a base, if so which one?

There will be a base, probably an ISOFIX one.

 

I just need to know if anyone is successfully using any base and 'Cabriofix' seat in a 2010+ facelift car really to reassure me that it would fit. As I don't have either the car or the seat yet I can't check myself! Otherwise I don't understand why it would be ok for the earlier Mk2s and not the later ones!

You can use the maxi cosi family fix isofix base in the vrs.

Just need to check If your seat fits it. I know the pebble and the pearl does

I had the maxi cosi cabriofix base/infant carrier and it was fine. I'm pretty sure the seats are identical in the ore and post FL.

I'd get two isofix bases if you're gonna use both cars a lot - and if your chosen travel

System doesn't fit it, see if they do adapters. Our teutonia didn't directly fit but the adapters were less than £40.

There will be a base, probably an ISOFIX one.

I just need to know if anyone is successfully using any base and 'Cabriofix' seat in a 2010+ facelift car really to reassure me that it would fit. As I don't have either the car or the seat yet I can't check myself! Otherwise I don't understand why it would be ok for the earlier Mk2s and not the later ones!

There isn't any difference in the seats, so assume it's simply a case of they haven't specifically tested so don't list it.

We've used the isofix and family fix without issues with the cabriofix seat.

There will be a base, probably an ISOFIX one.

I just need to know if anyone is successfully using any base and 'Cabriofix' seat in a 2010+ facelift car really to reassure me that it would fit. As I don't have either the car or the seat yet I can't check myself! Otherwise I don't understand why it would be ok for the earlier Mk2s and not the later ones!

Isofix is isofix, it will work fine.

+1 for ISOfix bases,

 

Used Britax baby seats in previous octy without isofix and it was a real PITA connecting the seat belts etc;

 

MAXI COSI seats appear to be very well made and are very popular and highly reccommended in places like Mothercare and John Lewis

If you're talking isofix bases, don't forget the 3rd tether point, usually a leg out the front.

We have a Jane system and the base is onky just long enough for that leg to get past that additional "step" that the Octy rear seats sit on so the foot actually touches the floor.

So just because it says Isofix doesn't mean it automatically fits safely

I've had a few maxi cosi seats and bases and the feet always fitted fine in the octy.