Our family is growing by one in the next few months and given how the cars that my friends-with-kids have end up looking, I'm strongly leaning toward a rear seat cover if I can find a decent one. We have just the normal 60/40 split bench in cloth. I'm looking for something that fits fairly tight, where I have to take the headrests out to install. Suggestions are appreciated.
My advice would be to get a plastic tarp or 10 and completely cover everything that can possibly come in contact with and absorb bodily fluids. Tiny humans produce waaaaay more bodily fluid than you would believe and do so when you least expect them too, and with out warning. Usually this happens right as you get to your destination, or at the start, but only after it is too late to turn back. Seriously though, Get something that makes the back seat one piece and is waterproof. The fewer seams you have to clean out, the better. Get a good shop vac too. Always keep a towel or two and a spare outfit. Keep an extra coat or sweatshirt in the Jeep during the colder months. Also having a few small trash bags to store the fluid covered stuff until you get home is very important. Nothing compares to smelling a blown out diaper or partially digested breakast for 30 miles. Have fun with your kid. Offspring completely, utterly, ruin your lives, but it is so amazingly awesome. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using ToasterJeep mobile app
Lol that's how my parents describe it.. I both understand and pity parents, I doubt I could do that. Congrats TWX on the baby
I bought the ones for dogs. It attaches around the head rests. I put it on when I need it and fold it up when I don't. Goes on in seconds and you can throw it in the wash. It has Velcro closer's where the seat belts come through. Got it on Amazon. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I second the car seats made for dogs. They wash easy. You can get the seat belts through. They vary in price. Canine Covers is pricey, but we'll made. Sent from my XT1635-02 using ToasterJeep mobile app
Here is one that worked for me. We recently had a baby and it works great with a car seat: Bench Seat Protector For Infant Carseats - Catch Crumbs & Spills. Lifelong Promise (Black). Also Available In Black Middle Zipper. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RICYT96/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_4ui2ybHTR5WPN Sent from my iPhone using ToasterJeep mobile app
Thanks guys. Appreciate the input. What's funny is we'd just replaced her Integra (well, technically supplemented since we still have it) with the Renegade, only about six months prior. Hadn't expected it to finally happen after all these years (the baby, not the Renegade) but I suppose we were strangely prescient getting a four-door vehicle as her replacement. Two things that are not quite so nice, it looks like either I'll have to have an uncomfortable seating position as the passenger if the carseat goes into the passenger's side rear seat to use the LATCH anchors or else we'll have to place it in the middle seat position and make it harder for anyone else adult-sized to ride in the back if we put the carseat into the middle position, and the stroller we were given does not fold-down small enough to fit with the rear seat in its full position. It fits best with the 6o-side folded down behind the driver as the casters are pretty wide. We haven't decided for sure where we'll put the carseat, and it looks like the manufacturer of the carseat has an additional stroller for the system that folds smaller, so this stroller will probably live in the trunk of the Impala and a new one will go into the Renegade.
