Thread: 110 Rear Shelf Design

If it was me i would look at just one material. You can easily make something strong with just timber and it is easier to shape. Go for marine ply and get into the practice of good glue and prep. Drifta make complete camping kitchens outta the stuff and you will find it hard to hear of anyone knocking their stuff about failure.

I built mine for my D90 out of the same stuff. With more or less the same design but with a 900mm long drawer.

I'm going to rip mine out next year and build the shelf higher, to fit my fridge in below. At the moment it sits on top of the shelf and the feng shui is all wrong.

The ally/connect-its stuff is pretty good and goes together really quick.

Originally Posted by manofaus

If it was me i would look at just one material. You can easily make something strong with just timber and it is easier to shape. Go for marine ply and get into the practice of good glue and prep. Drifta make complete camping kitchens outta the stuff and you will find it hard to hear of anyone knocking their stuff about failure.

you have a very good point i have looked at there products and they look the part and have only heard good stuff about it, so its the the little bit of weight worth the strengths and end result?

cheers

Originally Posted by defender_i_hardly_know_er

I built mine for my D90 out of the same stuff. With more or less the same design but with a 900mm long drawer.

I'm going to rip mine out next year and build the shelf higher, to fit my fridge in below. At the moment it sits on top of the shelf and the feng shui is all wrong.

The ally/connect-its stuff is pretty good and goes together really quick.

thats what i like the ease of constructing it can i be a pain and ask for a photo just to see how it sits??

cheers

Sorry for what may seem a negative word
Wood may be easy for the average Jo to work with but it is bulky & heavy!


Cheers

Must of been thinking the same thing today.

Been thinking of shelving system for the 110 for months.
Cant justify over $1200 for a single drawer that looks nice.
Yeah I would like one, but the money saved could be best spent somewhere else.

So Ive been looking at building a system.
My last vehicle (P38) I built a box, but the defender is more simple.
The defender already has supports (alu wheel arches) inbuilt into the interior!

I reckon I'll just buy some plywood, a flat sheet, cut it to size, carpet it and mount it across the rear.

So I went to Bunnings (masters wont cut plywood), bought a sheet of 15mm CD ply and had it cut 1610 x 980. $60
GUess what? You cant get it in the car and fit flat across the interior wheel arches!
So, I will need to make that single piece 2 pieces tomorrow.

ps. rethinking the 15mm option. Reckon I need 19mm

I may even post a few pics!

btw, I dont want a drawer system, but I will continue to use those plastic under bed boxes you can get from bunnings as well. Just as good I reckon.

I have no photos of the one I built for my previous defender.

But, it was marine ply,
what I wanted though was the option to remove it without problems.
so I measured the distace diagonally between the top and bottom of the door and made it about an inch shorter than that. I put one central solitary leg (running the length of the board front to back.) This means that the leg doesnt get in the way when fitting or removing.

I had a cargo barrier fitted and when I did thet I fitted a child seat hook on the floor at the foot of the barrier on the cargo side (there was a hole in the barrier for the seatbelt to pass through) Above this i cut a square out that way easy enough to put my hand through, I fitted a piano hinge and cut a hole big enough to lift it open with my finger - small piece wood across top to add as a lip for the door to sit on.

I then cut grey/black marine carpet to the size of the back of the defender, (so about 1-2" wider than the wood) glued on top of wood and cut the little door shape out so it would open!!

On both sides at the back I fitted eyelets hanging down just inside (about 2" in from the edge) and fitted adjustable turnbuckles between the eyelets and the tie down points, this secured it nicely.

I fitted 1 x chicken crate and one banana box in either side, thats a lot of storage.. Best of all it could come out or go in quickly and without fuss, and carried a very heavy load unfussed!

I fitted a "defender" badge (from a kero fridge) on the middle leg if anyone finds it.... I loved that car...

Hope that makes sense

I made a high shelf in the cargo area by bolting two pieces of steel angle (12mm angle with 6 mm bolts I think) to the inside roof sill which spanned the width of the inside. The angle supports a 9mm piece of marine ply screwed to angle and covered in carpet. It's very high but holds stuff like chairs and plastic boxes of cooking stuff. Very handy.