Rear seat storage

My truck has a little baby back seat. It is a 4 door full sized truck, but it has the small (quad cab) rear seat instead of the large (crew cab) rear seat. I never have people sit back there. In the 13 years I’ve owned the truck I can probably count on 1 hand how many times I’ve had humans in the back of my truck.

I decided that I wanted to make some changes to the rear seat area so that I would have a nice flat area to store fishing and camping gear. I came up with a plan to take out the rear seat and basically replace it with  plywood covered in carpet that hinges at the bottom to allow access to the storage area under where the seat used to be.

The rear seat came out with 4 bolts. 3 more for the seatbelts. Finally 3 more for the anchors for the car seats.

Once everything was out I used a sheet of 3/4 plywood and some outdoor carpet. I cut it to fit, using the old mounting holes to mount the plywood. Then fitted some hinges and boom, flat storage area done!

Looks very professionally done.  Most people like me would throw in several milk crates for storage.

very nice John!

I've been thinking about something similar for ours, though needs to be easy in/out as we sometimes need our back seat for people.

Thanks,
Brian.

I realize that looking at the pictures it doesn’t look like much, but I gained about 5 cubic feet of extra room, and the room is totally flat which makes stacking storage containers much easier. Side note I can throw a sleeping pad down and use it for a small sleeping area for myself. Or put the dogs beds back there so they have a nicer travel area than the bed of my truck.

Brian on my truck I could have left the seatbelts in place (I actually might put them back in) and had the whole install/uninstall down to 4 bolts and 3 screws. Maybe an hour worth of work if I was to put the seat back in. As it sits now I can still have people sit back there and the shoulder belts are still in place, but not the attachment point where they click in. So in an emergency there is still some sort of back seat seating.

Really I always pack too much crap when fishing and this is just an excuse to bring even more!

That's a great idea!  Thanks for sharing John.