Hi All

 

is anyone using Isofix funnels in their superb and if so did you get them with the car seat or from Skoda? I've fitted our seat and it's ok but I did notice that there are meant to be funnels to guide in the fittings and save the leather. Google throws up confusion on this one.

 

People already using a maxicosi familyfix base, how are you doing it?

 

Thanks

I have them but they came with the seat. A Maxi Cosi seat. They do help with putting the seat in.

Edited 18 May, 201412 yr by Danny 57

I'd be interested in these. Takes frustratingly too long period of time to swap the maxi cosi seat base into my car.

Try E-bay and search Isofix guides, some on there.

I didn't get anything like that with the car seat or the base. I'll keep my eye on the bay. They seem expensive for a little bit of plastic.

They are very expensive for two littles bits of plastic.

£10 for two plastic guides...  Shouldn't they have covers on them, otherwise they are just magnets for crumbs?

Their only purpose is to make it easier to fit the base, they hold the seat fabic / zips out of the way.

 

I agree £10 is expensive but it's as cheap as it gets...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxi-Cosi-Isofix-Guides-for-isofix-car-seat-base-/261462621998?_trksid=p2054897.l5658#ht_502wt_1111

 

£10 for two plastic guides... Shouldn't they have covers on them, otherwise they are just magnets for crumbs?

No they don't have covers.

What do they look like when they are installed?  Does the leather re-form around them so that they just look like square holes between the seat back and the seat base?

I leave mine in permanently so I have become used to them as part of the interior but I also have a full height cover on the seat to protect the seat which is also left in all the time.

Plumped for some universal fittings ones from the bay. Preferred the black ones to blend in with the seats. That being said, I've also bought a Diono car seat mat to protect the leather so probably won't see much of them anyway!

 

Soon as I've got them I'll get them fitted and put up some photos.

The Diono full protector is excellent. I looked last night again on the bay, and all of the isofix funnels have been hoovered up!

Jakeblake, search "Isofix guides" their still on there.

The Diono full protector is excellent. I looked last night again on the bay, and all of the isofix funnels have been hoovered up!

 

my bad I ordered a few sets off the back of this thread for both mine/wife's cars.

I'm trying to find my guides for the two Britax KIDFIX seats we have installed in the car. The Superb is by far the most difficult to install ISOFIX that I've come across.

The Superb is tricky. We also have an Octavia and this has small zips in the seat fabric that open up access to the isofix hooks - a far better idea.

I'm trying to find my guides for the two Britax KIDFIX seats we have installed in the car. The Superb is by far the most difficult to install ISOFIX that I've come across.

 

The only ones I could find for Britax were these...

 

http://www.baby-express.net/Britax_Roemer_Isofix_Latch_Guides.html

We have two car seats, one came with the 'funnels' and the other, well if it came with them, I don't have them any longer.  

 

One of the seats is hard to get in and out anyway so it tends to stay put.  The other (which sometimes I remove - I sometimes need to carry 2 adult passengers) goes in with the funnels.  However the funnels themselves are quite hard to get into place (I did it this morning, it seemed to take about 10 minutes, which is an age when you are faffing about in there).  If you are moving the seat a lot you might 'save the leather' from potential tears and rips (but that assumes the thing metal proddy thing attached to the site that goes into the isofix hooks is sharp and might catch the leather on the way in).  But my guess is that if the funnel was in there for a year or more it might end up forcing a wider gap between the bottom/back of the leather seats anyway.  What I'm saying is that if you are getting them to 'save the leather' it might only half be worth it.  Having said that I've only had the car a few months which is not long enough to see whether the funnels are going to create a longer term gap....

 

 

 

 

 But my guess is that if the funnel was in there for a year or more it might end up forcing a wider gap between the bottom/back of the leather seats anyway.  What I'm saying is that if you are getting them to 'save the leather' it might only half be worth it.  Having said that I've only had the car a few months which is not long enough to see whether the funnels are going to create a longer term gap....

 

I had ISOFIX funnels from one of our carseats in our Mk1 Superb Elegance (with leather seats) for the best part of eight years. There was a gap left when I finally removed them but they quickly disappeared over a day or two.

 

Their only purpose is to make it easier to fit the base, they hold the seat fabic / zips out of the way.

 

I agree £10 is expensive but it's as cheap as it gets...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxi-Cosi-Isofix-Guides-for-isofix-car-seat-base-/261462621998?_trksid=p2054897.l5658#ht_502wt_1111

 

 

The only ones I could find for Britax were these...

 

http://www.baby-express.net/Britax_Roemer_Isofix_Latch_Guides.html

 

Try Maxi Cosi Customer Service - 01284 413141

The only ones I could find for Britax were these...

 

http://www.baby-express.net/Britax_Roemer_Isofix_Latch_Guides.html

 

Try Britax Customer Service - 01264 386034

The only ones I could find for Britax were these...

http://www.baby-express.net/Britax_Roemer_Isofix_Latch_Guides.html

Those are the same as the Jane ones that regularly come up for sale on the electronic Bay.