hello, newbie here. as i wait in anticipation on my delivery (SR+ in Midnight Silver, white interior, just ordered last week! ) i am researching various accessories to get so i keep it in pristine condition. i will have have never picked out or owned a 'nice" car before and i have been looking forward to this day since i was 16 (i am 41).
i have an 8yo daughter and 9yo son who i will be picking up from school a few times a week, and my 8yo (who is tiny) definitely needs to be in a booster seat (in our test drive she kept complaining the seatbelt kept choking her, and she couldn't see out the window at all). my 9yo son who is much bigger just uses a backless booster. my question - is it worth getting those carseat protector things that go under the booster seats? or will that make it worse? my concern is the dye from carseat protector will screw up the white interior . plus it may look ugly. i've never used them before, but then again i currently drive a '06 camry with cheap cloth seats which i never paid attention to the effect on the seats. Or, is best thing to just install the boosters each time as they are needed? (so they don't leave indentations?)
also - a side note - i have already told my kids no eating in this car! Ha. Those of you with kids- i am curious if you are actually able to enforce this rule? Hehe Especially with driving around to evening practices/activities with hungry kids etc. my husband has always allowed our kids to eat in the car (he usually drives our Odyssey) and it has gotten soooo trashed. Crumbs, wrappers, etc. It drives be bananas. I'm the OCD one, I guess. I grew up with my dad who never ever allowed food in the car (and we did plenty of road-trips too) but my husband thinks that is ocd/way of the past/impractical (and apparently so do many other parents i know)....
i have an 8yo daughter and 9yo son who i will be picking up from school a few times a week, and my 8yo (who is tiny) definitely needs to be in a booster seat (in our test drive she kept complaining the seatbelt kept choking her, and she couldn't see out the window at all). my 9yo son who is much bigger just uses a backless booster. my question - is it worth getting those carseat protector things that go under the booster seats? or will that make it worse? my concern is the dye from carseat protector will screw up the white interior . plus it may look ugly. i've never used them before, but then again i currently drive a '06 camry with cheap cloth seats which i never paid attention to the effect on the seats. Or, is best thing to just install the boosters each time as they are needed? (so they don't leave indentations?)
also - a side note - i have already told my kids no eating in this car! Ha. Those of you with kids- i am curious if you are actually able to enforce this rule? Hehe Especially with driving around to evening practices/activities with hungry kids etc. my husband has always allowed our kids to eat in the car (he usually drives our Odyssey) and it has gotten soooo trashed. Crumbs, wrappers, etc. It drives be bananas. I'm the OCD one, I guess. I grew up with my dad who never ever allowed food in the car (and we did plenty of road-trips too) but my husband thinks that is ocd/way of the past/impractical (and apparently so do many other parents i know)....