If it was your only option, would you take your toddler with you? Do dealers frown upon this?
We really want to go check out a used car we found for a good deal at a dealer, but we have no one to watch our almost 3yo... We have a click-tight seat so the car seat installation isn't a concern.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
@sslm: ours encouraged we bring them along to see how the car seat fit and how it would work for us
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
If they have an issue, it's not a place I want to give my business to.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
We took toddler and baby with us! And moved the car seat into the car to test drive it to ensure the car seat would fit well. They had absolutely no issue with it! Do it!
grapefruit / 4817 posts
Take him. You'll want to see how it works with his carseat and legroom anyways. I personally don't care what a dealer thinks. We just did this over the course of a few weekends and it wasn't a big deal at all.
pomegranate / 3872 posts
Yeah the dealership shouldn't care! When we got my car though, dh and I test drove separately and left lo with the other one. We didn't want to deal with the car seat and knew that it would fit no problem.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I would bring DD on purpose to test out how the carseat fits, etc!
clementine / 769 posts
Yes, no one ever had a problem with. It helped us make our decision because we were able to see how much space we had to work with.
persimmon / 1188 posts
I'm sure it happens all the time. When we did it, I test drove the car myself but that was our choice, to not install the car seat. The salesman was a dad and of course wanted to make a sale so he gave our son a new car toy, water, snacks, etc to help keep him happy. We would have preferred to have a baby sitter but didn't want to wait- my car was in bad shape.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
If you have an easy to install carseat, then there's no reason not to. Lots of big dealers also usually have a tot room where you can let them play.
I actually have friends who bring their kids to the dealership on purpose because they run amock during marathon negotiating sessions and they think it frazzles the salesman. (That would never work for me - it would frazzle ME more than anything else, but hey, whatever works).
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
@looch: good point!!
@Bao: @Adira: @BananaPancakes: @JerricaBenton: @snowjewelz: @FancyGem: @MOMTOLITTLEB: thanks guys! I am so paranoid about annoying someone, even a car salesman who I don't care about... I'm working on that haha
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@sslm: I was worried about it too and Hellobee reassured me when we were looking for a new car! 
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
@gingerbebe: actually I said that to my husband, it'll be easier to negotiate because they will want us to leave ASAP haha
coconut / 8279 posts
The dealership wanted us to take him with and check out the car seat fit but I reeeally didn't want to have to install a carseat. (Also, the car was bigger than the one I had)
I left DH with LO at the office and drove it myself.
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