Child seats in the car boot

CPTM

I think I already know the answer to this question but just in case.

5 door i30 hatchback. Is there a way to legally setup the hatchback boot to have two child seats attached safely and securely for a short sub 15 minute journey? There will be a week or so later in the summer when I have to bring around 4 small adults and a couple of toddlers on short trips here and there.

Renting a 7 seater seems to come in around 2 or 3 thousand euro because of the shortage at the moment.

I'm not looking to bend rules or put anyone at risk. Just wondering if there is a proper solution to this in place on the market that I don't know of.

Miscreant

So you're looking to put 2 child seats into the boot of a hatchback and put children in them?

I'm pretty sure that is completely illegal! As would having 4 small adults, 2 kids and a driver in a 5 seater car!

You'll have to find other arrangements as there is no legal way to do what you're asking in a Hyundai i30.... even for 15 minutes.

Pawwed Rig

Bicycles seem like the best idea here given that they are short journeys.

elperello

Seats mounted in the luggage space are a non starter.

Illegal and also an insurance issue.

Perhaps a local hackney service has a mini bus which could carry you all safely.

A few short runs would be a lot cheaper than renting for 2-3 k.

Miscreant

You could try taking to a local taxi company and come up with some sort of agreement with them.

In any case, it's going to cost you and there is no way you should even attempt this in your i30. Your insurance would most likely be invalidated with 7 people in the car.

appledrop

Totally and utterly illegal and an insurance issue as others have said.

If the journeys are so short, can you not just do two runs?

Now they are slimline car seats you can get to fit 3 in back of your car but they would probably only fit in saloon size car rather than a hatchback.

CPTM

Nice one, thanks all. Thought as much. I just didn't know if there was some rear facing contraption out there for it.

A couple of the people are very old and probably past their cycling days. Taxis might be the only option, or renting a second car and having one of the adults drive it. The only thing about that is they're used to driving on the other side of the road so it wasn't ideal. But that's grand, that ideas in the bin anyways. I'm sure we'll figure something out. Thanks again

CPTM

Completely didn't consider insurance either. Sure that's a no go from the beginning. Thanks.

hayse

Why don’t you get a roof box and fire them into it with a couple of happy meals from macdonalds.

CPTM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132647#Comment_119132647

Sure feck the cost of that, I could tie some garden furniture to the top and let them enjoy some Mr Bean type journey.

HeidiHeidi

This brings back memories of our family holidays in the 70s with a baby on a knee in the front passenger seat, 4 kids in the back seat, and 2 in the boot on domestic upholstered chairs with the legs/ frame removed. And a dog who roamed around the whole car with abandon.

Dem was the days!!

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132722#Comment_119132722

Yep, we used to have 4 adults and 4 kids in car on summer holidays along with dog in open boot.

If we were going to beach sure we would bring two or three of neighbours kids aswell in the boot.

Sure the more the merrier ☺️

PsychoPete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132647#Comment_119132647

Better yet just get a trailer and you'd pack 14 children into it

hayse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132800#Comment_119132800

28 into a double deck i for Williams sheep trailer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132647#Comment_119132647

You can't be throwing old people into roof boxes🤣

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132722#Comment_119132722

My father had an old vw pickup similar to the 1 in the picture in the mid 80s, if we had anywhere to go my mother and 1 of my brothers would sit in the front while myself and the other brothers used sit in a little timber hut he made especially for us, tied on to the back with old blue rope 🥴🤣

PsychoPete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119132812#Comment_119132812

Standing up or laying down?

kirving

The idea isn't entirely unheard of. The Volvo V70, Mercedes E-Class Estate and Tesla Model S all had an option for two factory fit seats in the boot.

It was theoretically possible to have a dealer upgrade the car to the 7 seat version after it was purchased, but the cost would be in the thousands, and you'd still need to have the car re-registered and insured, etc.