Also ruhig Mut aber denk dran,...., wenn du so einen Knirps einmal mitgenommen hast, dann bricht das Cabriofieber aus und sie wollen nichts anderes mehr.

Do not fit a baby seat to the MGF or MG TF!

The MGF and MGTF for that matter was never approved to carry a child seat. We did this for safety reasons. Even if the vehicle does not have a passenger airbag, a baby/child seat installation was not approved. You may find that by fitting a child seat, it is not installed correctly and the seatbelt may not be located correctly on the seat. I would therefore recommend not fitting a child seat.

About 6 months before we introduced the 04MY vehicles, I along with 2 colleagues fitted 7 or 8 models of child seats to every car in every position. It took us a couple of days to do it as we needed to approve certain seats for our vehicle range. When we got the the TF as it was, we simply tried it again and the child seat tool that we used to make sure that they fit in to a fitment envelope did not allow secure and correct fitment of any child seat, forward or rearward facing. Therefore the decisions was made not to approve the MGF/TF for child seat fitment.

There are those who will see this as a huge mistake and may have cost us sales of the vehicle, however, what's more important, fitting a child seat regardless or the safety and security of your child? I know what I'd do.

De-activating the airbag is not a simple job and not recommended as there are other systems linked to the SRS system. Simply cutting the wires is not an option and "bridging" it would not in my opinion be a sensible thing to do. I've had this discussion many a time and as far as I'm concerned, de-activating airbags is not an option in any situation unless the vehicle has a de-activation function and the crash test approval work shows that there is no significant decrease in body integrity etc.

…Nope, the seat is a different construction/foams etc and the seat mountings and belt buckles etc are in different locations and then the seat belt itself is located ina different spot. That combined with different "H" and "R" points in the car means that they are a different application.

It is possible to put the same seat into different cars, but the location, mounting and "H" and "R" points are different.

In the case of the F and TF, we said "no baby/child" seats. If you look in the other vehicles hand books you will see that there are recommended seats approved for the vehicles (like Britax etc), in the F/TF there is no such thing and if I remember correctly, there may even be a page somewhere that says not to fit them.

Dann bliebe wirklich nur den BFA auszubauen. Und ob man das wirklich darf? Ist schließlich ein Sicherheitsmerkmal.