Securing Items in the Trunk?
 

Does anyone have any clever methods for tying down items in the trunk so they don't roll around? I have a box that I keep roadside emergency things in (fuses, oil, fire extinguisher, etc) and I can hear it doing cartwheels in the trunk while driving around. My previous vehicle had hooks in the trunk so I could just wrap a bungee cord around the box and be done, but not this car...

Velcro

I've had these for years. They work reasonably well but if I got to do over, I'd go with something like these.


That base web would be a game changer for milk crates and such.

The box is a bit too heavy for Velcro. That might work. I considered those, but Santa might be bringing me a WeatherTech trunk liner so they wouldn't have any carpet to stick to.

I just put my wife back there and tell her to hang on to the box. Still hear a clunk once in a while.

You are buying the wrong Velcro.

+1 for this. I have one of those organizers my AAA agent gave me with lots of Velcro strips on the bottom. I can put a lot of stuff in it and it stays put.

Now with a rubber liner....:iono:

That's just your frozen heart.

What about a extendable bar thingamabob like this:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cargo-Bo...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://www.carid.com/ic/covercraft/...80452-00_8.jpg

Line the trunk liner with pile tape.

I would expect damage of some sort from that.

For groceries, I just make sure everything is in environmentally unfriendly plastic bags. Then I drape the handles of the bags over the edge of the trunk and close the trunk lid on them. They don't go anywhere.

For other stuff, I use my boots as stops the way Ultramaroon uses those things he linked above. I have the OEM Subaru trunk liner, and my boot soles are usually pretty good about staying put as long as I don't get too far sideways.

:bow:


Mostly I just lay my shit in between a couple wadded-up moving blankets.

I have used something like this for several years. It's light, foldable (will fold flat), water proof and inexpensive.



humfrz

Oh, so ghetto - :iono:


humfrz

It don't damage nuffin?
https://i.imgur.com/kCDA3Et.jpg

Can't see what's bending in there. I can bend metal parts of this car with my bare hands. I wouldn't trust those soft plastic interior panels or even the metal behind them.

Sure you can bend a lightweight sportscars metal innards but can you bend a spoon? https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20110124083000

Now you got me wondering, I'm going to check what that thing is pushing against.

I checked and it's against the those two upper clips that are in some metal panel behind the carpet. It's not ratcheted to where you could hang from it(it will crank down pretty tight though) but it's just enough to grab where it can't be moved by pushing and pulling it. More than enough to keep something from moving around back there.

Picture one that doubles as a rear shock tower brace. Make it with a quick release mechanism. You could sell tens of them.

I actually thought about doing exactly that but the bar is crossing paths of my sub box.

I picked up one of these from Costco, came with thermal lined shopping bags as well.

All folds down to sit flat, it does sit in the garage till needed though, the only bulky item in my boot is a first aid kit, which fits in my full sized spare under the boot liner.

Cost me about $25, well worth the small outlay.

Good idea. Just put little hooks on the ends of the shock tower brace to hook the net onto - :thumbsup:


humfrz

I used to use two bungee cords from the rear child seat locks running behind into the trunk, crossing over and connected to the roof of the trunk. Its usefulness was so-so.

Best I've done was pack the trunk with pillows from my couch when I transport a 3-ton jack and tools.

Right? You could make all kinds of adjustable collars or partitions.




...or you could just close the trunk on the bag handles.

i don't have a picture, but i have a cargo net i acquired decades ago from somewhere (it was either an rv surplus store, or a used-car clean-out at a dealer) mounted front-to-back on the drivers side, one hook hooks onto the front of the trunk mat, another to the seat frame up top, and then the rear 2 hooks, i drilled holes in the plastic trunk sill plate, and the upper pop clip tab in the center of the trunk opening.

it keeps my first-aid kit, a few towels, and my emergency tool set from moving around. and leaves enough space i can still use the trunk.

Oh, my - THAT's even more ghetto that ol @Ultramaroon 's wadded-up moving blankets - :eyebulge:

:D


humfrz

Well, I don't know how many people ol @extrashaky is grocery shopping for, but that wouldn't work for me. The width of the trunk lid for holding bags of groceries for mrs humfrz and myself would be OK, but the rest of the trunk is full of provisions for the three granddaughters - :eyebulge:


humfrz

It's just me, so it's not a big deal to lay the bags across the floor from left to right and shut the lid. Occasionally I'll use a bulk pack of paper towels and/or toilet paper as a backstop to keep things from swinging from side to side.

But our cars don't really have a giant trunk. If you're shopping for five, I would think you would pretty quickly fill up all the trunk floor space so that the groceries would simply pack themselves into a secure position.

A towel is just about the most massively useful thing any of the interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

Yep, fer sure, fer sure. Not only do the groceries fill the floor of the trunk, they stack to the ceiling of the trunk.

Paper products require a separate run, to Costco..:eyebulge:

Even at that, with a bale of pampers, a bale of toilet paper, a bale of paper towels, a bale of Kleenex and a large box of ass wipes, completely fills the trunk and the front seat of my FR-S.


UGH!


(but, I love all four of them - :wub:)


humfrz

YIKES! What a post!

Is marijuana now legal in Australia ??

:D


humfrz

Your not picking up what I'm putting down.

Surely you've read Douglas Adams??

That looks like it would work really well. I didn't consider using those for bungee cord hooks. I'll give them a shotCannabis will be legal here soon :D

Google trunk organizers. Lots of them fit in very nicely and tend not to slide much, if at all, and even if they do your stuff won't be scattered. I use one now and it's pretty great.

Sorry, I sure didn't pick up on that - :(

No, I haven't read any of Douglas Adams writings - :sigh:

I am not well read - :bonk:

Here is a bit published by Wiki (for some of the others):

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series.

Towel Day 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria, where Adams first had the idea of The Hitchhiker's Guide. In the novels a towel is the most useful thing a space traveller can have. The annual Towel Day (25 May) was first celebrated in 2001, two weeks after Adams's death.

According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He later said that the constant repetition of this anecdote had obliterated his memory of the actual event.[19]"

OK, so it was Adams and the mind alternating drug was alcohol - :D

Now, I feel ignorant - must be time for another pain pill - :iono:


humfrz

You haven't missed anything. It's basically science fiction for children. Most people either haven't read it or grow out of it by the end of high school, although the zealots assume everyone else has read it and is as in awe of it as they are.

When someone starts quoting it, you have to quickly think up an excuse to slip away. Otherwise you'll fall victim to an incomprehensible discourse on the Hitchhiker's universe. The books themselves are not incomprehensible, but the breathless extolment of their virtues and baffling attempts to explain the jokes lead many to want to punch a kitten.

Ahhh haaaa.


Thanks for your thoughts, now I don't feel so bad - :)


humfrz

I bought these years ago. I just tapped a couple holes into the underside of the package shelf and screwed them in.

https://i.imgur.com/3MEbYri.jpg?1

They work great for grocery bags and the like.

That being said, if you're using a milk crate or something, you could just hook the bungie cord into the existing "lightness holes" in the underside of the package shelf.

You must be the fun one at parties.

^^ hahaha

I like that analogy, gonna have to use it. My wife and kids like the kicking a puppy one :thumbsup: