You will find the holes and rivnuts are designed for their modular drawer system. I have a Dometic slide and my slide is mounted on a combo of 2 of their rivnuts and 2 of my own drilled holes with rivnuts. I tapped out two rivnuts that I didn't intend to use and reused on my own drilled holes. The durability is certainly there but just some insight on what the holes are for and some possible workarounds.
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You will find the holes and rivnuts are designed for their modular drawer system. I have a Dometic slide and my slide is mounted on a combo of 2 of their rivnuts and 2 of my own drilled holes with rivnuts. I tapped out two rivnuts that I didn't intend to use and reused on my own drilled holes. The durability is certainly there but just some insight on what the holes are for and some possible workarounds.
Hmm, good to know. I was looking to use a Tembo-Tusk fridge slide, I wonder how their foot print compares?
From the looks of the fridge slide, it is possible you can drill the fridge slide to match the holes. I couldn't do that with the Dometic slide.
I went ahead and ordered the entire low sleeping platform. I think its best to keep things simple and light in the 4Runner as it is more easily effected by added weight than our other vehicles. I will pick up some good cases for the rack to store more items when the interior space is at a premium. At the end of the day I felt like our 200/LX 570 would be the better candidate for a drawer system as it can better handle the additional weight and the drawers will be larger and more usable in that vehicle.
Mutant138
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Okay now I'm straight up peanut butter and jealous. Take pics of the install and finished product so I can live vicariously through you.
I'll make sure to do a full write-up on it since there seems to be very few who have done it. I was told 6-8 weeks before I will receive it.
Mutant138
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Dope. I know I wont be the only happy reader.
Lollerskates
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Looking forward to this as well. There's a video of the plate system install on youtube, but I can't find one of the whole low platform sleeping system or whatever it's called. I'm interested in knowing how easy it is to remove the sleeping platforms and reinstall the back seats back in just in case I need to tow around extra humans in the 2nd row.
Surgical Precision
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Goose Gear
I have the rear plate, 50/50 split 10" drawer system and the 60 side of the 60/40 split sleeping platform. I have been running this for close to a year now. I cannot say enough about the quality. Its top notch. Easy to install. Durable. With a 10" drawer system you do certainly loose headroom. I was able to put a Dometic on a drop down fridge slide without issues on the drawer system. I can place a 26" dog crate on the sleeping platform and it still fits. I removed the seat bottoms and backs to install the sleeping platform on the 60 side as it provides more storage underneath. I hope these pictures help.
I have the rear plate, 50/50 split 10" drawer system and the 60 side of the 60/40 split sleeping platform. I have been running this for close to a year now. I cannot say enough about the quality. Its top notch. Easy to install. Durable. With a 10" drawer system you do certainly loose headroom. I was able to put a Dometic on a drop down fridge slide without issues on the drawer system. I can place a 26" dog crate on the sleeping platform and it still fits. I removed the seat bottoms and backs to install the sleeping platform on the 60 side as it provides more storage underneath. I hope these pictures help.
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bigbadpoppa
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Dont get cargo boxes. I designed one myself with them. My medium height dog just fits by a hair without bumping her head on the ceiling when standing. You'll need the clearance you can get since you have larger dogs. Flat platform (no cargo) is the way to go if you have large dogs that will be standing.
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Mutant138
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Thank you for sharing.
That is a friggin ton of storage space. I'm not sure I would want to sacrifice the headroom but it's cool to see these setups on rigs. It's useful real world data to help with our own setups.
I love how clean these systems are. I just need to be in a higher tax bracket
geofox784
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Full review / article
If anyone wants more info on this and a ton of pictures, I just finished my full review over at trail4runner.com
If anyone wants more info on this and a ton of pictures, I just finished my full review over at trail4runner.com
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I love the idea of the drawers and the space created under the rear seats when you completely remove the seats, but I simply can't give up the head room for the dogs or myself when back there. I am glad that I went with the low platform after seeing pics for reference. If it were just myself and no dogs I would have chosen the standard height with 10" drawers.
transistor
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Trekbox has a sleeping platform option, though it's quite expensive
Here's my setup (the dog's bed behind the driver's seat was made by me, not trekbox)
Here's my setup (the dog's bed behind the driver's seat was made by me, not trekbox)
Mutant138
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Trekbox has a sleeping platform option, though it's quite expensive
Here's my setup (the dog's bed behind the driver's seat was made by me, not trekbox)
That is f*cking nice. Thanks for sharing I've personally never seen that option before.
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transistor
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I guess it's not on the website yet. David, the owner, did mention that I was getting the first production unit...
Here's another example: TrekboxX Expedition Systems on Instagram: “Need sleeping space? We can help you with that! ••• Custom-made drawer systems built for the Toyota Land Cruiser, 4Runner, and Jeep! •••…”
bring_it_on
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Thank you for the pictures. This is very similar to the system I'm planning to install on my T4R and it's great to visualize how it may look. I am also worried about the headroom and clearing fridges and other cargo when the fridge isn't installed. Spoke to Goose Gear today and they said that the 10" drawers come to about the height of the wheel well and have around 6.5 inches of usable internal height. In your experience so far, how has the drawer height and volume been? I'm deliberating between the 8" and the 10". Also, which dometic fridge do you run? I plan on running a 40-50L fridge on an Alu cab drop down slide and just wanted to make sure that I didn't loose flexibility with the 10" as far as clearing heights are concerned (for the fridge and for stacking duffels or suitcases when fridge is not installed). If you didn't want a sleeping platform and just used the drawers would you still stick with 10" or go down to 8"?
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kaitlyn2004
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How do you guys find the elevated sleeping platforms? Underbed storage is fantastic+probably needed, but I've only slept in my 4runner one weekend so far, and it was just on the base... giving up that headroom would just suck! I'm not claustrophobic but it would surely be so uncomfortable and whatnot
I choose car camping over tent-beside-car camping because of comfort, and it kind of seems like at that point I'd just go with a tent.
I choose car camping over tent-beside-car camping because of comfort, and it kind of seems like at that point I'd just go with a tent.
geofox784
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How do you guys find the elevated sleeping platforms? Underbed storage is fantastic+probably needed, but I've only slept in my 4runner one weekend so far, and it was just on the base... giving up that headroom would just suck! I'm not claustrophobic but it would surely be so uncomfortable and whatnot
I choose car camping over tent-beside-car camping because of comfort, and it kind of seems like at that point I'd just go with a tent.
I really really tried to like the sleeping platform given how much I spent on it, but I ended up just buying a tent. Having to slide in and out of the car, get shoes on, and especially change, was just way to much of a PITA to make it worth it. I'm so much more happy being in a tent now. If I was using the base platform without drawers it may be more reasonable, but I would consider drawers to be required to have enough space for equipment.
