Thread: Sliding loadspace floor

You could always make your own drawer system, depends what you're like "on the tools", marine ply or aluminium - save a few grand to spend on relocating your "spare" to the rear bumper - just an idea.
cheers

Originally Posted by oldsalt

You could always make your own drawer system, depends what you're like "on the tools", marine ply or aluminium - save a few grand to spend on relocating your "spare" to the rear bumper - just an idea.
cheers

Unfortunately OldSalt, whilst in my mind I can picture exactly what's involved in making the drawers and can actually picture myself doing it, what happens in practice is very different and I end up having to pay someone to make it right!!!

I've just had an email from Black Widow saying that I can still access the winch by removing one of the drawers (same as D3 system) so that saves me a bit by not having to go for the rear wheel carrier.

While I think the D3/4 is a great vehicle I really think LR stuffed up when they got rid of the swing open D2 rear door and rear wheel carrier.

If your going to be really serious about going off road or doing long distance touring off road you need to buy a swing away rear wheel carrier and if your even slightly vertically challnged there is this sliding floor so you can actually reach the gear stowed in the back.

If they had left the opening door with the spare mounted on it none of this would be required, plus then they could have fitted a decent sized fuel tank and it would have saved plenty of people many thousands of dollars and made the D3/4 a much more capable vehicle all round.

Just my 2 cents worth.

cheers,
Terry

Whenever we go away for some serious fun I change over to my second set of rims with MTR's anyway so I could always just put the off-road spare on the roof, which would make it much easier to access if needed.

I've been looking at the long-range fuel tank options that fit where the spare currently lives, but I can't have the "city" spare on the roof for the daily commute to work as it won't fit in my garage or the carpark at work. Maybe with Land Rover assist I can do away with the spare in the city and just take one when we go on long trips?

640Newton...


Has anyone got one of these or seen one installed? Are they worthwhile?...

Hi 640Newton - when I bought my 5 seater D3 in 2006 there was an option for a sliding floorspace for about $1800. I couldn't justify the cost of that so I made my own. It uses Haefele slides that can handle 160 kg and was relatively easy to make. Pictures and details are at the following link.

DISCO3.CO.UK Photo Gallery - Sliding Loadspace

HTH
Leigh

Probably not the place to say it but I have a similar sliding floor to that pictured in a (dare I say it) BMW X5. It is one of those useless gadgets that look like a good idea at the time. Floor is no stronger than the normal factory one so with the sliders is a bit weak.

Bigger problem is that the boot space is not a rectangle like the floor slide. So as there are no sides to the sliding part of the floor unless you drive very carefully even boxes fall off into the edge no mans land. Meaning you cannot use it to get stuff out and cannot slide it back as your gear is now in the way.

Problem is now bigger than it was as you cannot climb on the floor you just slid out as it is not strong enough and the reach is about a third further than it was before you used the devise.


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Originally Posted by 3toes

Probably not the place to say it but I have a similar sliding floor to that pictured in a (dare I say it) BMW X5. It is one of those useless gadgets that look like a good idea at the time. Floor is no stronger than the normal factory one so with the sliders is a bit weak.

Bigger problem is that the boot space is not a rectangle like the floor slide. So as there are no sides to the sliding part of the floor unless you drive very carefully even boxes fall off into the edge no mans land. Meaning you cannot use it to get stuff out and cannot slide it back as your gear is now in the way.

Problem is now bigger than it was as you cannot climb on the floor you just slid out as it is not strong enough and the reach is about a third further than it was before you used the devise.

Thanks 3toes, to be honest I hadn't thought about that particular aspect. I guess a load net would help but I agree it would be very annoying if things slide off the side/back meaning you couldn't slide the floor. I think I'm leaning towards a drawer system now as I'd have somewhere to put the nik-naks and stuuf that normally just rolls around.

Is there anyone else other than Black Widow that I should consider for drawer systems?

Cheers,
640Newton

Originally Posted by 640Newton

Thanks 3toes, to be honest I hadn't thought about that particular aspect. I guess a load net would help but I agree it would be very annoying if things slide off the side/back meaning you couldn't slide the floor. I think I'm leaning towards a drawer system now as I'd have somewhere to put the nik-naks and stuuf that normally just rolls around.

Is there anyone else other than Black Widow that I should consider for drawer systems?

Cheers,
640Newton

Try the Dolium website, or ORS.