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To be honest, I've never even seen the X308 setup installed, but generally for each seat there are two lower loops, between the seat base and seat back and then an upper fastening point which will probably be in the rear package tray.
This is in a Volvo:
And this is an Audi
I don't need the upper mounts, so really interested in the lower bracket. Just need to determine if it exists, what it looks like and ideally a part number. Obviously if your car has the upper tether points the lower ones will be there too.
Thanks for that KipKnox. The ones in the headlinng are for sunshades/blinds. The package tray ones look like the isofix uppers I posted. Do you have anything you can feel in the gap between the seat base and seat back? Wouldnt make sense to have one without the other.
Thanks both! Interesting, the except from the manual, and the fact that kit is available and contains the top point only suggests it was a different system.
Along with the fact that KipnKnox doesnt seem to have the lower bars suggests they werent fitted.
So it would appear the top tether in the X308, and the centre seat of the new XJ are for upper tethers for seats which use the seatbelt, whilst the outer seats in the new XJ have lower latch brackets.
Perhaps lower LATCH or isofix attachments just dont exist for the X308.
I went through the same analysis myself. I am convinced that the x308 does not have the lower LATCH brackets, which surprised me because the original 2002 manual specifically mentions a LATCH system. I suppose the reference could be exclusively to the top tethers on the package tray, but that is not what I think of when I read LATCH.
Hi, I believe that Isofix/LATCH may have been available in late x308s but I'm struggling to find much searching online.
Can anyone confirm they have factory fixing points in their car and ideally post a picture of the arrangement?
Thanks!
Mine has isoflex attachments for the rear, one pair each side. You need to poke a finger between the seat back and the squab where the child seat fixings go and you will feel the horizontal bars to clop on.
It is a hard job yo prise the cushions apart sufficient to get the isoflex legs in but it can be done. Plastic guides might help.
I must be missing something. Why can't you just use the seat belt to secure the child seat?
You can, it just limits flexibility, seat choice and is a bit of a pain to fit and remove that's all. It's the way I went in the end and whilst workable, I'm very glad we went for a swivelling isofix seat in the mrs daily X5.
Black plastic guides for seat fixings (May be upside down but, after a struggle prising the cushions apart to fit, and as they work fine, I've left them as is. Close up view