In reply to Klayfish:
Yes. That's how I use mine. Lumber goes on the roof.
In reply to Klayfish:
Yes. That's how I use mine. Lumber goes on the roof.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: How do you guys use stow n go so much? I have had the Seats out of my van once. It's a pain. I have three giant car seats and you need to move those beasts before you do anything with the seats.
I have two kids in boosters and two in real car seats. I put the boosters all behind the passenger, so I can remove those and fold in all of the seats in like 25 seconds and have a super long cargo area, longer is there is no passenger. I did this last week for something. This past weekend, I took the extra fifteen minutes to pull out the two real carseats and went to Home Depot to buy a huge outdoor dining table, six chairs, and then to Sears Outlet to get a range, all in the same trip! After unloading, fifteen minutes later it was again a kid carrier.
I haul more stuff than people typically, so I usually have one of the middle seats up & the other-3 down.
We have a 2011 T&C with Stow N Go. Our kart can fit in the back with the rear seat and one middle seat stowed, leaving room for me to take my 2 kart aged kids to the track.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: How do you guys use stow n go so much? I have had the Seats out of my van once. It's a pain. I have three giant car seats and you need to move those beasts before you do anything with the seats.
Because I use my van mainly as a cargo van to haul my bicycles around in and as a changing room after riding. Some guys are fine with putting an $8000 bike on a bike rack. I am not. If I had a place to store the seats, I'd consider taking the seats out entirely so I'd have the seat wells as additional storage (similar to the Ram C/V). But occasionally I do need to carry people, so it's nice to be able to go from cargo-van to people-hauler in a few minutes with no tools.
For better or worse, my van didn't come with a roof rack. Occasionally I wish it had one - like when I need to haul something longer than 10'. When I'm clearing snow off the roof before going to work, I'm glad it doesn't.
Ian F wrote: For better or worse, my van didn't come with a roof rack.
Are you sure? Does it have chrome strips at all? Because the crossbars fold up and are stowed just inside those strips. It's pretty smart.
Duke wrote:Ian F wrote: For better or worse, my van didn't come with a roof rack.Are you sure? Does it have chrome strips at all? Because the crossbars fold up and are stowed just inside those strips. It's pretty smart.
Not a bit of chrome on the whole van, but that sounds interesting. The roof channels are covered with rubber trim - which during cold weather, about 6" of the front end will curl up. Then lays back down flat when it gets warm again. It's strange.
The cross bars are folded up into the sides on mine as well, I've never used them though since the stuff fits inside and then I don't have to lift them up high or tie them down.
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