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I currently have a new F15 XDrive30d coming my way (due for delivery in late May / early June) and I have a question about one of the main reasons I purchased the car...

I needed to upgrade from my F30 3 Series as we now have three kids and I need to fit three child seats across the back seat (middle row in the X5). For future proofing, I also decided to go for the third row option. I'm not planning on adding any more kids, but I've heard that kids sometimes make friends - friends that need transporting when they are older.

I figured that the back row was pretty much useless to me for the initial period as the three child seats in the middle row would preclude tilting the seat forward and thus access to the third row would be limited to being through the tailgate.

However, I found myself wondering today exactly how the middle row tilts to allow access to the back row...

Does the base cushion remain in position (or slide forward on rails) and the back tilt downwards, thus decreasing the angle of the back to the seat; or does the entire seat - cushion and back - tilt forward at the same time, keeping the same relative angle to one another?

What I'm getting at, is could you have a child seat (forward facing) fixed to one of the middle seats and still be able to tilt the seat forward to give access to the back row?