DIY Rear cover for crx/extra transport

[greasemunkey]

Well I didn't want to pay 80 bucks for a used spare tire cover/utility cover and I wanted a way that if i had to, I could transport more than one person...as illegal as that sounds, a crx is a death box either way.

So, to get started you will need:

-your choice of board, I chose like 1" thick plywood, pretty strong kind of expensive for a sheet at Home Depot, ran me 26$ MDX might hold strong, but I wanted to be safe if people might be back there. The board has to be a minimum of 43"x46"

-2 yards of material of your choosing from Hobby Lobby/Michaels. (8.50$)

-2 Hinges (3$)

-Heavy Duty Stapler, had to buy one(17$/3$ Staples)

- Table saw, measuring tape, pen, straight edge, all the rest of the tools needed you can figure out with a little common sense.


Now this was the best I could come up with, you can see what areas could use a little more but, it fits snug and it doesn't move at all. Very happy with it, I wanted to sleep on it yesterday lol, ya know watch the moonlight with a big pillow...however I am 6 foot tall and not 8 anymore




It actually rests just perfect on the plastic paneling.

Not much of a DIY but I could def have used the measurements to speed things up when I did it/good baseline to improve off of if you want a cleaner cut to match at least.

[pimpstaman90]

Thats a really clean trick... Couldn't you use a differant hingle so that it could of been mounted from the bottom...? Would of looked cleaner, IMO... and you might wanna spary some type of adhesive under that cloth so it wont hook on to cargo and yank off or better yet tear... Non the less, the best i seen for under $30... Better than factory POS...

[greasemunkey]

not sure about an undermount hinge, check Home Depot. and I was being cheap thats why no adhesive was used hah, I just stretched and stapled the crap out of it. and thanks