How Do Car Seats Fit in a 2022 Honda Passport?
The verdict: With three sets of Latch anchors in the backseat, the 2022 Honda Passport caters to families with kids in car seats. This five-seat mid-size SUV is a shortened version of the popular three-row Honda Pilot SUV.
Does it fit three car seats? Yes, but to get three car seats to fit across the 2022 Passport’s backseat, our installer had to use the seat belt to install the infant seat in the middle seat rather than the Latch anchors.
Take a look at how the Latch system and each car seat scored below in our Car Seat Check of the 2022 Honda Passport.
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A Grade
- Infant seat: Rigid Latch connectors made it a breeze to install this rear-facing car seat, and there was no need to move the front passenger seat forward to accommodate it.
B Grade
- Latch: The Passport has three sets of lower Latch anchors, allowing parents to install car seats in any rear seat. With chunky, rigid connectors, they’re easy to use. With skinny, hooklike connectors, they require a bit of muscle to connect. The middle seat’s anchors are marked differently than the outer seats’ anchors, signaling that the Latch anchors need to be used as sets and can’t be shared across seats. The Passport’s three tether anchors sit at the base of the seatbacks, hiding them from view. A label alerts parents that the top tether anchors are below the cargo floor; to access them, you have to slide the rear seat forward. We’re not fans of this tether location as many parents forget about this important anchor, and having it hidden below the cargo floor makes that more likely to happen.
- Rear-facing convertible: The rear convertible seat just fit into the Passport’s backseat. Our convertible seat has hooklike Latch connectors that took a little extra effort to connect to the Passport’s Latch anchors. We didn’t struggle for too long, however.
- Booster seat: The outboard seats are wide, and our high-back booster seat fit well. The seat belt buckles, however, are floppy, making it difficult for kids to buckle up independently.
C Grade
- Forward-facing convertible: Again, we struggled briefly to connect this car seat and its skinny connectors to the lower Latch anchors.. To connect to the hidden top tether anchor, we had to slide the rear seat forward to access the anchor below the cargo floor.
Grading Scale
A: Plenty of room for the car seat and the child; doesn’t impact driver or front-passenger legroom. Easy to find and connect to Latch and tether anchors. No fit issues involving head restraint or seat contouring. Easy access to the third row.
B: One room, fit or connection issue. Some problems accessing the third row when available.
C: Marginal room plus one fit or connection issue. Difficult to access the third row when available.
D: Insufficient room, plus multiple fit or connection issues.
F: Does not fit or is unsafe.
About Cars.com’s Car Seat Checks
Editors Jennifer Geiger and Jennifer Newman are certified child safety seat installation technicians.
For the Car Seat Check, we use a Chicco KeyFit 30 infant-safety seat, a Graco Contender 65 convertible seat and Graco TurboBooster seat. The front seats are adjusted for a 6-foot driver and a shorter passenger. The three child seats are installed in the second row. The booster seat sits behind the driver’s seat, and the infant and convertible seats are installed behind the front passenger seat.
We also install the forward-facing convertible in the second row’s middle seat with the booster and infant seat in the outboard seats to see if three car seats will fit; a child sitting in the booster seat must be able to reach the seat belt buckle. If there’s a third row, we install the booster seat and a forward-facing convertible. Learn more about how we conduct our Car Seat Checks.
Parents should also remember that they can use the Latch system or a seat belt to install a car seat, and that Latch anchors have a weight limit of 65 pounds, including the weight of the child and the weight of the seat itself.
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