Keeping your children safe and your car smart
When choosing a family vehicle, child safety is obviously going to be completely paramount but for many drivers, flexibility can be important for a whole number of reasons. On the one hand, you may need one or more car seats to be in place when your children are on board but on occasions when they are not with you in the vehicle, you may need the space for luggage, business samples or you may just prefer a tidier look without the seats in place.
When the law governing the use of child seats in UK vehicles changed in the UK in 2006, children were required to have a full car seat or a booster depending on their age and height. If you need booster seats then these are obviously easy to install and remove as and when you need them. When they`re not in use, they can easily be left in the boot until you need them once again.
Full size car seats however are a different issue because of the size and weight involved. Standard family saloon and hatchback cars are unlikely to be able to accommodate even one seat in the boot and if you are looking to remove the seat to give yourself more space as a whole, this is unlikely to be a good option anyway.
While a car seat is obviously vital, if you require flexibility with your vehicle when your children aren`t in the car, they can be an irritation.
Fortunately, new innovations are appearing all the time and as far as child safety inventions are concerned, the arrival of the inflatable car seat has been a long awaited boon for many families.
The inflatable car seat is available in a range of styles, sizes and designs but a typical high back booster seat is so versatile that it can fit into a handbag or even a jacket pocket prior to inflation. Inflating the seat is quick and easy and can take as little as 30 seconds and needless to say, the range complies with all EU and US Safety Standards for car seats overall.
The inflatable seat has great advantages when you`re travelling abroad and will ensure that you don`t have to worry about ill fitting or unsuitable rental car seats ever again and it is also useful if you are carrying other children in your car as you can always find room for an un-inflated spare.
A car seat of this kind also scores points if you require flexibility for your vehicle. If you need a family car for the school run or for evenings and weekends and then need to transform it into a more practical type of vehicle, an inflatable car seat can help you do just that.
Deflation and uninstalling are easy and the seat takes up very little space until it is needed again.
So if you`re looking for a used Audi on Netcars.com for example, or a similar executive car, there are options to have a workhorse on the one hand and the perfect family transport on the other.
