Iveco crew cab tool staorage

[treewizard]

cool beans, is the test expensive? heard they wont release it till works done if it fails?

[Johny Walker]

cool beans, is the test expensive? heard they wont release it till works done if it fails?

 

if any work is required @ inspection its done ,as for test it goes bk to the garge then retested ,not as bad as folk make out ,its wirth doing

 

inspections are £35 incl vat

[Mark Bolam]

Give me your dinner money or else!

 

Utilising the space under the tipper bed is a good idea, but I don't think you can compare the storage space gained by racking the rear cab out.

 

We never have more than 3 and the dog in the cab at work, so it made sense for my. It's just a simple ply coffin box with no ends that sits across the rear seats.

 

I carry a couple of spare ton bags under the tipper, always handy!

[Mark Bolam]

I'll have another look mate. The bottom of my truck seems to get minging really easily, though!

 

You aren't meant to go under the unpropped body you know?

[monkeybusiness]

I've done mine as in these pics. I took out the back seats altogether (I don't have enough friends to need them anyway) and built this box. The only non-reversible damage to the van is where I have cut a couple of little rectangles of plastic to allow the ali c-channel to be tech-screwed to the B-pillars - otherwise everything can be removed and the seats replaced in about an hour, with no other evidence of damage.

The top shelf is level with the very bottom of the windows, and I have cut it so it floats over the hole where the door lock pokes up (I have removed these and just use the central locking). This means that even if someone gains access to the front of the van, or smashes one of the rear windows, they can't unlock the rear doors and gain access to the tool box below (Obviously it is only plywood so isn't properly secure, but it will hopefully stop/slow down the opportunist).

The two side steps are perfect for combi-cans, but I need to sort a way of securing these as they have a habit of falling out when you open the door. The lower shelf could also do with some sort of step on the ends to stop things sliding about during get away driving manoeuvres.

The only real downside is the way I have built it needs 3 sheets of ply - you may get away with 2 if you are creative with the lower shelf and make it out of a number of offcuts, but I think it would probably lose too much strength. You also need to watch that nothing too hard/heavy/mobile is stored on the top shelf as it is then in pole position to smash any one of the rear windows (and be assured that the little slidey side windows are mega expensive...).

[Mark Bolam]

Very similar to mine mate, but I've only got the top two racks as I left the seats in. Mine is a removable ply box.

Saws and blower stay out of sight on the bottom shelf.

 

You have made a bang tidy job of that, no mistake.