When looking at new cars, I saw some neat storage concepts in the hatch areas of cars such as the Suzuki Aerio SX, Kia Spectra5 and Mazda3 Wagon. I am thinking about adding something similar to the hatch area of my Elantra.
When the rear seats are fully folded, they sit slightly higher than the cargo area floor. My idea is to build some storage into the floor area and bring it up to the level of the folded seats.
The basic idea is to put in a new trunk floor with some divided storage areas (and maybe removeable bins), then add a second floor on top. I plan on using the original cargo area carpet on top of all that to get an OEM look.
The plan includes hinged doors to give access to the left ant right rear corners, as well as to the child seat anchors just behind the rear seat.
The result will be a nicely reinforced trunk floor with storage areas underneath to keep things from rolling around.
I'm also thinking about making a new real deck that will hopefully prevent road noise from the cargo area from getting into the passenger compartment and will also have some storage built into the bottom side. (I built something similar for my old Ford Aspire and it cut road noise a lot.)
I'll try to take pics of the project and post them. Stay tuned!
When the rear seats are fully folded, they sit slightly higher than the cargo area floor. My idea is to build some storage into the floor area and bring it up to the level of the folded seats.
The basic idea is to put in a new trunk floor with some divided storage areas (and maybe removeable bins), then add a second floor on top. I plan on using the original cargo area carpet on top of all that to get an OEM look.
The plan includes hinged doors to give access to the left ant right rear corners, as well as to the child seat anchors just behind the rear seat.
The result will be a nicely reinforced trunk floor with storage areas underneath to keep things from rolling around.
I'm also thinking about making a new real deck that will hopefully prevent road noise from the cargo area from getting into the passenger compartment and will also have some storage built into the bottom side. (I built something similar for my old Ford Aspire and it cut road noise a lot.)
I'll try to take pics of the project and post them. Stay tuned!