[Wessel]

Hi All,

Remember the joke of fitting 4 elephants into a mini ? My challenge was fitting 4 children (with car seats..) and a fridge into a gen 3. The booster seats works great for kids, but you instantly lose 80 % of your boot and don't have the option of only using one seat.

Solution ?

Thanks for everyone who posted their designs. It was a great starting point for me, I was able to make adjustments according to my specific needs.

I decided to build a packing system as opposed to a drawer system. For my purpose this is more practical on a Gen 3, due to easy access to the seat storage compartment.

Further, I couldn't afford losing height and width with a conventional frame (I needed maximum space and still had to leave room for a seat on top of the system with adequate head room.

First considered a frame with marine ply top and carpeting, but a friend suggested a steel square tubing structure, similar to a roof rack (strong, multiple tie down points, easy to hold and light enough for one person to fit and remove easily, no permanent mods required, quick to do and cheap).

So here is my solution for 4 kids and a fridge. I realized afterwards that with this design it is very easy to modify the height of the rack for different applications.

[Wessel]

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[pierreandre]

Impressive!

[CATS]

Stunning solution and one that utilise all the space effectively!

Thanks for sharing. Where do I place my order as my welding skills will land me up with a skew surface

Maybe I must consider aluminium as I will not be strapping kids onto it but still keep the roof rack slat design as I really like it.

CATS

[Wessel]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the feedback.

Aluminium would have been my first choice - but without contacts probably more expensive.

Currently I am using the 25 l crates, because I have a lot of them. They fit well under the rack and are easy to operate, but ammo crates might be more space efficient, if they roughly fill the area. Would be interesting to see how many one ammo crates would fit.

[mitsenoj]

Hi nicely done. I opted for a plywood version with a steel frame. My starting point was 4 ammo boxes which determined the height of mine. 4 standard ammo boxes fit as if Mitzb designed it like that, more likely its just luck though!

Tim