How do I close my trunk?

Daski

Daski

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Google was less than useless on this one, or maybe I'm just dumb. Probably the latter. Either way, NS, I am calling upon you in my time of need. I drive a Ford Edge, I can fit 8.5 out of 10 feet of a box rail in the trunk, leaving a foot and a half hanging out the back. The car has hooks for bungee cords but the trunk does not have a place to attach them. I can post pictures of this if that's not clear enough. How can I close my trunk so that the rail stays in the car?
 
Why do you need to close the trunk? If you can secure the rail to the car (I'm thinking tie or duct tape it to the front seats) then you can just drive around with the trunk open. Totally legal if you attach a red flag or cloth to whatever is hanging out the back of your vehicle.
 
13478176:OregonDead said:
Why do you need to close the trunk? If you can secure the rail to the car (I'm thinking tie or duct tape it to the front seats) then you can just drive around with the trunk open. Totally legal if you attach a red flag or cloth to whatever is hanging out the back of your vehicle.
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Gonna have skis, boots, and a bunch of other shit in the car likely. Figured getting the trunk half way closed would be a more reliable way to keep everything inside than duct taping everything down to the car. I can get the rail to stay in with the trunk open, but that doesn't let me bring anything else
 
13478193:Daski said:
Gonna have skis, boots, and a bunch of other shit in the car likely. Figured getting the trunk half way closed would be a more reliable way to keep everything inside than duct taping everything down to the car. I can get the rail to stay in with the trunk open, but that doesn't let me bring anything else
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Is there anyone else riding with you in the car? If not just put all your other crap in the passenger seat. If you have to stop short stuff will slide forward and stay in the car. Around here I see guys driving around all the time without a tailgate and with all kinds of stuff unsecured in their pick-up beds. Taping/tying stuff down is more to protect you than to keep your stuff in the car.
 
13478201:OregonDead said:
Is there anyone else riding with you in the car? If not just put all your other crap in the passenger seat. If you have to stop short stuff will slide forward and stay in the car. Around here I see guys driving around all the time without a tailgate and with all kinds of stuff unsecured in their pick-up beds. Taping/tying stuff down is more to protect you than to keep your stuff in the car.
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I got at least 1 other person in the car, plus the passenger seat might have to be moved up and pushed down to fit our stuff in the car. We're planning on bringing a drop in ladder to an ice rink. Car also does no have a roof rack so tying stuff to the roof is not an option.
 
Put all the seats down and run the thing from outside the passenger window to the back. I did that with a ten foot pvc pipe. You can't just run it from as far forward as it goes to the back, even if it's like touching the windshield?
 
13478212:DrZoidberg said:
Put all the seats down and run the thing from outside the passenger window to the back. I did that with a ten foot pvc pipe. You can't just run it from as far forward as it goes to the back, even if it's like touching the windshield?
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Cant do it forward. Ill try your idea tomorrow, the main concern with your idea is can i fit 1 more person in the car
 
get a couple of straps like this

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i'm assuming your car doesn't have cross bars so pool noodles or really anything soft works

something like this:

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now throw your tube or rail or whatever on the roof and put your strap over the rail and back under so it makes one loop underneath. if you mistakenly go from the top up then your pipe will move all over the place and you could be down a rail.

now open your doors and put the straps through the top of the doors and onto each other and tighten that bitch down! after you're done it should look something like this

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i'm guessing that you're only going across town or something but i'd trust a rigging job like this for a cross country road trip.
 
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