Parts required: Styrofoam for making wreathes. Commonly found at craft shops like Michael's. Roughly you will need enough rings to make a height of about 6.5 inches.I used 3 rings that were 1-15/16ths thick and 1 solid disk that was just 15/16ths thick.

Tools required : Caulk gun if using my method of gluing things together.

Number of people : 1

Difficulty : 2. Simply because it is more difficult that installing floor mats.

Time to complete 10-15 minutes.

Step 1 : Glue the rings together and disk together using a glue that is safe for foam board. Can be found at Home Depot or Lowe's.






Step 2 : Remove rear trunk cover Jack, tire wrench and spare tire.



Step 3 : Remove the two foam pads. The one I'm pointing to as well as tje on directly to it's 6 o'clock.






Step 4 : Set the "trunk-tire" spacer in the center of the vacant space. You can choose to glue it down, but I just left if free. I will update if it shifts too much. Then reinstall everything in the same order that you removed it.










Thanks!

-Jeff

 

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If you like the sound of silence (quieter at the very least), use Roxul Safe n' Sound instead! :-)

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verkion

 

So here's a dumb question: why bother with all this and not just take out the cardboard false floor? That way you gain a huge amount of trunk space and might actually be able to fit a dead body or two in there.

 

Then I guess do that. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to keep the floor.

 

I took out the black parts and then laid the board down.. a lot more room I tell yeah.

 

Great idea! Thank you.

 

How to create more space in your trunk and drop weight -

Step 1 - remove everything
Done!

 

^ I like your idea!

 

FYI, this may actually be dangerous to do.
As I understand the spare works with the car frame in the event of rear end collision as a structural support to help slow the car crashing into you.

Just figured I would post this here.

 

I don't see anyway that is possible.

In any case, I have since removed everything and filled the area where the spare was with foam and laid down the board an carpet on top of it. Gained about 5" in height..

 

I never consider collisions when I do anything.

 

nice. these spare tires are useless IMO anyways.

 

I stole pad from my wife

 

Ha ha! Whatever works!