Toyota rear cargo slide deck - what's your set-up?

[90Duck]

The sliding tray was the one feature I wasn't able to get on my 4Runner (they get installed at the factory is what I've gleened). I picked one up from a forum member who had one but removed it. It's an easy install, and the only cost effective way to add one. OP, if you don't want yours, there are always folks on this forum looking to buy a used one.

As for use, first and foremost is it levels the back for sleeping. But, it also provides great storage underneath for tools and miscellaneous crap. Beyond that, I love to use it like a pickup tailgate. It gives me a place to set up a stove and cook under the hatch, especially when combined with the SlumberJack Roadhouse tarp.

 

[BobsTrail]

Good point about the hitch as a recovery point, you're right about that.
Aren't the front welded loops tie down points for shipping and not rated for recovery?

This is a 1984 4Runner pulling me out by a front loop last April. He is on 40" Super Swampers, thought I could follow him.

 

[08TxRunner]

^^^Great pic.

 

[Rack]

I Originally wanted a sliding deck.
The truck I got in 2011 did not have one. they were scarce.
So were the 4-Runners.
I never found a need for it." You don't miss what you've never had".

When I made my storage drawers they were easier to install.
My truck is Recreational use only and is not a daily driver.
Your use may vary

 

[Whttxtrail]

Interested

I posted in WTB for one of the slide outs in the DFW area but no responses yet. Still looking for one. I’m looking to save my back for when we go camping and load up for the apocalypse.

 

[nglayton]

I sold mine to another forum member and installed low profile ARB drawers. I get way better use out of the space underneath now and the top still slides out.

I did have to recreate the flat sleeping surface with a 4x4 and some plywood, but that was easy.
I also added a bunch of tie downs, so either way the t4r is lacking in that area.

 

[00Sebby]

I just bought my 2020 TRD Pro with the sliding cargo deck so I could have a flat floor to sleep on. Otherwise it serves no other purpose for me. I traded on my Jeep Rubicon and there was a huge gap and seats didn’t fold flat. I’m headed to Moab on Friday from Dallas which i built my Rubicon specifically for this trip over the last two years. One week before I leave and i get death wobble 3 times. That was it for me.

I’m planning on getting an Xprite mattress so I can camp a couple nights. I like the safety of sleeping inside away from predators. Also like the quiet without a tent flapping.

I'm in the same boat except my '20 Rubicon is new, hasn't been built, and hasn't had DW. But I miss my '10 4Runner Trail. So I was at the dealer today working a deal on a '20 ORP with the sliding deck. This was one of the things I missed most from the '10.

 

[00Sebby]

The sliding tray was the one feature I wasn't able to get on my 4Runner (they get installed at the factory is what I've gleened). I picked one up from a forum member who had one but removed it. It's an easy install, and the only cost effective way to add one. OP, if you don't want yours, there are always folks on this forum looking to buy a used one.

As for use, first and foremost is it levels the back for sleeping. But, it also provides great storage underneath for tools and miscellaneous crap. Beyond that, I love to use it like a pickup tailgate. It gives me a place to set up a stove and cook under the hatch, especially when combined with the SlumberJack Roadhouse tarp.

When you installed it, how did it look behind the seats? I know my Trail had a "hidden" storage compartment there that basically builds up the floor to be flat with the cargo tray.

 

[90Duck]

When you installed it, how did it look behind the seats? I know my Trail had a "hidden" storage compartment there that basically builds up the floor to be flat with the cargo tray.

I'm not sure I really understand your question, but the standard floor just has a sloping piece to get from seat back to the load floor. When I added the tray the hidden storage compartment came with it and bridges the gap between the seat and tray. The floor itself underneath either of those options is the same. You just need to drill a hole through the sheet metal in two places to get to two nuts that are welded in place below the floor. I drilled it from the top using the tray brackets as a template, but if you took out the spare you could probably do it from below too.

 

[DBGW5]

I am looking for a sliding cargo deck!! I’m in San Diego.

 

[bverschage]

I am looking as well in Phoenix. Does Toyota sell these yet?

 

[00Sebby]

I'm not sure I really understand your question, but the standard floor just has a sloping piece to get from seat back to the load floor. When I added the tray the hidden storage compartment came with it and bridges the gap between the seat and tray. The floor itself underneath either of those options is the same. You just need to drill a hole through the sheet metal in two places to get to two nuts that are welded in place below the floor. I drilled it from the top using the tray brackets as a template, but if you took out the spare you could probably due it from below too.

That answered my question. Thanks.

 

[Brick Sprickly]

Here's my low buck setup. D-rings, some Perfect Bungees, and a couple of 27 gallon storage totes from Costco. It works well, and is easy to take out when I need to.

See now that's nice. Uniform, tidy, symmetrical, all the good stuff.

I got on board with the 3x plano case method for storage and that seems to work for about 90% of trips so far.

I see lots of people talking about how much it saves their back loading groceries but I mean not really you still have to pick them up to the appropriate level, but anyway lift with your legs not your back. Doesn't anyone deadlift anymore?

Anyway, I got a Pro before understanding that the tray helps to level out the interior for sleeping platform usage, so I guess that's nice to know but I'm a tent camper and am not about to go hide from danger like some Hobbit.

 

[VB.TRD.Pro]

I see lots of people talking about how much it saves their back loading groceries but I mean not really you still have to pick them up to the appropriate level, but anyway lift with your legs not your back. Doesn't anyone deadlift anymore?

Bruh, we're not all 11 ft tall.

How do you deadlift or lift with your legs when the top of the cargo deck is at waist level for most of us ~6ft tall folks, requiring your legs to be fully extended (straight) while stooping over with a mostly curved back to pick up and unload something stored at the deeper end of the cargo area?

What the sliding deck enables you to do is to bring the cargo out to a more neutral pickup position so lifting the load without having to stoop over is a possiblity

Maybe it's a good thing this is a 4runner forum and not a fitness site.

 

[Brick Sprickly]

Bruh, we're not all 11 ft tall.

How do you deadlift or lift with your legs when the top of the cargo deck is at waist level for most of us ~6ft tall folks, requiring your legs to be fully extended (straight) while stooping over with a mostly curved back to pick up and unload something stored at the deeper end of the cargo area?

What the sliding deck enables you to do is to bring the cargo out to a more neutral pickup position so lifting the load without having to stoop over is a possiblity

Maybe it's a good thing this is a 4runner forum and not a fitness site.

I'm 6'4" so I more or less feel like I'm 'putting things into', not really 'lifting things up into' if you know what I mean.

The tray is still not a very good design. Toyota should have installed more substantial tie downs directly to the tray instead of relying on ones on the floor or on the back of the 2nd row. Just makes it hard when you want things to stay on the tray you have to tie them down, but if you move the tray with things tied down on it, they slide off/fall behind the tray.

 

[benhalleniii]

Cargo deck and kids

I use mine to shuttle my kids in and out of the back of the truck. It's one of their favorite things to do in my 4 Runner!


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[benhalleniii]

I'm a tent camper and am not about to go hide from danger like some Hobbit.

Approve.

 

[CITYRNR]

Here's my low buck setup. D-rings, some Perfect Bungees, and a couple of 27 gallon storage totes from Costco. It works well, and is easy to take out when I need to.

Nice fit! Did you just drill straight into the plastic or did you secure with a nut and washer on the underside?

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[doctorres112]

Yeah, I'm not loving the absence of proper tie downs. I'm really trying to convince myself it's good for me but I think drawers of some sort will be my next mod.

-Chris

 

[DallasTRDPro]

I'm in the same boat except my '20 Rubicon is new, hasn't been built, and hasn't had DW. But I miss my '10 4Runner Trail. So I was at the dealer today working a deal on a '20 ORP with the sliding deck. This was one of the things I missed most from the '10.

I'm done with Jeep for awhile. Especially now that Fiat has designed the JL. They are having all kinds of issues with bad welds and trackbar issues. I have an athlete I coach that has a '19 and it its stock and had death wobble. I will always love Jeeps, but always hated driving lifted ones.