Storage cubbies for doors?

[IamPro2A]

he's not a short small fellow, either and almost our age.
Dang, now I have to go look up kydex! LOL

My wife is 4ft 13, and her Jeep is a m/t so I totally get it. I HAVE to move her seat to get it and move it. On the plus side,for some reason the side view mirrors work for both of us where they are, and the rearview works for me if I just flip to night mode.

PS, Kydex sheeting is available in purple, lol.
https://www.knifekits.com/vcom/kydex-sheet-colors-purple-haze-c-1071_54_652_670.html

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[IamPro2A]

Here's a basic DIY for working with Kydex.
https://www.ehow.com/how_7901810_methods-molding-kydex.html

The pro holster makers use a vacuum setup to form the kydex to the gun (usually a dummy gun with the proper dimensions). Think like using a food saver vacuum sealer only with heated kydex.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

There's a lot of room under the seat. The umbrella should fit there. You could find or fashion a pocket or cubby for access from the side to keep things from rolling around.

She keeps a bottle of hand lotion, a bottle of change for parking meters, etc (and the Aldi grocery store requires quarters to use their carts - you get the quarter back when you put the cart back), other odds and ends. under seat not reachable for her. She can't even move the seat forward or backward without help.
Side storage for some of these things is the only option. she can't use her right arm or hand like most folks.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I too love how in tune SP is with his wife, and proactive in making things better for her. IMNHO, that's how a husband should be.
Sorry I have no easy answer, though I hate those stupid nets too. Always catching the top eyelets of my workboots on them.

Just running my brain and mouth here, but how about your local gun holster guy? I bet something exactly like you want could be made out of kydex. Leather too, but more expensive. It could even conceivably be molded to be thinner in the area near her feet, or maybe moved up a bit over them. Molded to fit just what she wants there. I might have to go out to mine and sit in it to see if that's even a viable idea.

I credit her with "saving me" - coming along at the right time years ago.
She escaped from a mentally abusive mother when she turned 18, graduated high school and got a job. Her father must have been afraid of her mother as he didn't really step in much. She had to pay for her own dental work when she got out on her own. Her father later sent her a few dollars to help and said "don't tell your mother" if that gives you an idea.
She was thrown off a horse as a teen, landed on her side and back - and her mother said "your're fine, we're not wasting money on a doctor". In recent years we've seen x-rays of her spine - damaged by that fall years ago and untreated.
When I first met her, she sat with her right arm behind her as best she could. I noted that evening that she tried to keep it hidden and not make her hands visible. I asked why she was almost hiding her arms as we talked (I knew of her handicap of course, couldn't miss it). She said that the last guy who said he wanted to take her out on a date after meeting through some dating service came to her door, she opened the door, and she could see he was really uneasy and he made some excuse and left.
She grew up dirt poor, seriously poor, think a house not much better than Green Acres.
I can't fix what was or change it, but she's never going through any of that again. A better friend you'd never have.

Miracles? How we met - there was a dating service in central Iowa. I was divorced, farming - but the field work was over for a while, and one night I got bored and started to sort through the junk mail (those flyers, papers, stuff that stacks up until you trash it. I normally tossed it all, got a big heap of it and burned it in a pit out back. I never ever so much as unfolded those advertisers or little papers loaded with ads and stuff. I plopped the pile of 'em on the floor to make sure there was no good mail in the stack and one of those papers slid out of the stack.
Why the heck I did that night because I had never done it before - but I opened one up to the middle page and right in front of me was an ad for that dating service. Send your info with a buck and a self-addressed stamped envelope. You'd get back a list of women - first names only, age, very brief description of their likes and dislikes and a general town location only. What the heck, might be fun. I was caught up with stuff, planting was done, cultivating done for the year. I got back that list - her name was the last name on the back side of the last page and that happened to be the page I saw first as I opened the envelope. Contact was only through the service to protect everyone.

 

[Mr._Bill]

She keeps a bottle of hand lotion, a bottle of change for parking meters, etc (and the Aldi grocery store requires quarters to use their carts - you get the quarter back when you put the cart back), other odds and ends. under seat not reachable for her. She can't even move the seat forward or backward without help.
Side storage for some of these things is the only option. she can't use her right arm or hand like most folks.

I'm talking about the space under the seat that you can access from the side with the door open, before you get in or after you get out.

Any pocket on the door is going to be limited by the amount of space available between the seat and the door.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I don't know how far ShadowsMama moves the seat up, but I keep mine pretty far back and even then I don't think there is enough length where the width would allow for a compact umbrella. before you get to the knob to adjust the seat and then the seat back lever.
For perspective, that's a thing of antiperspirant next lumbar knob in the net, and an electric razor in front of it (Before I retired last month, I drove about 650 miles a week so I felt like I lived in my Gladiator sometimes), so not much more than mebbe an inch of width between knob and door panel at that point. You could mold kydex to widen above it, but it would have to be like that for the full travel of the seat, and you wouldnt be able to adjust the lumbar without opening the door. Maybe there would be room if you made the umbrella right in the front and vertical?

I am beginning to think a custom kydex replacement for the net is going to be the only way to really get what she needs.

From that perspective, one can see why the front door "cubbies" are those bottle holders only. There's very little space rearward of that.
The only space is in the forward area of the door there, 4" or so from the front.
It makes sense. Been too cold to mess with trying to measure and see what would and wouldn't fit.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I'm talking about the space under the seat that you can access from the side with the door open, before you get in or after you get out.

Any pocket on the door is going to be limited by the amount of space available between the seat and the door.

Looking at the pic in the prior page, I can see why there's not a lot available for anything beyond a water bottle holder. Still, something besides the cheap net that sags and stretches and things literally fly out of. Getting in and out you hit that net and stuff comes flying out. The nets are worthless.

 

[Mr._Bill]

Looking at the pic in the prior page, I can see why there's not a lot available for anything beyond a water bottle holder. Still, something besides the cheap net that sags and stretches and things literally fly out of. Getting in and out you hit that net and stuff comes flying out. The nets are worthless.

That's why mine only has receipts in it. The hotel receipts are folded in half, with the food receipts tucked inside. I don't try to use it for anything else. I did add a set of the pockets with bottle holders to the rear doors. I got them discounted from Amazon Warehouse. I also put in a set of the side pockets that sit on the transmission hump. I didn't tape them down, the weight of the CD player keeps it in place.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

That's why mine only has receipts in it. The hotel receipts are folded in half, with the food receipts tucked inside. I don't try to use it for anything else. I did add a set of the pockets with bottle holders to the rear doors. I got them discounted from Amazon Warehouse. I also put in a set of the side pockets that sit on the transmission hump. I didn't tape them down, the weight of the CD player keeps it in place.

Already have the side "pockets" for the transmission console/hump area. One sort of goes around the t-case shifter and sits down by that, the other goes on the right side. Same things I put in the JT - it's just been way too cold to mess with the tape. If it warms up a bit I may take a hair dryer and warm things up.

 

[chorky]

This just came across my feed. Seems costly. But an option

https://centerak.com/products/door-...xRmkhfcoYcidPYH3diOlchvpxCfhI0R7JS9v7ygeKgi0I

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I think someone already suggested the flat metal screw-on panels.
At least those flex out so you can actually put something besides a few envelopes in there. The nets hold more, they just wimp out after while and stuff falls through them.
I could make that type of thing for 20 bucks out of stock from Home Depot or Lowe's. The price on that stuff is crazy because it's a Jeep accessory. I really can't see those as being useful for much other than papers. Glasses, hand cleaner, other stuff, won't fit in them.

I went with the cheap "bottle holders" from Amazon. At least those will hold something thicker and can use the net for other stuff. She can drop stuff in them and reach down and pull it back out instead of fishing through a net or some narrow spot.

Too bad they don't make 'em for the front doors like they do the rear doors. The rear ones are really nice and clip in, no screws, and have some usable space plus could hold a bottle or a pill bottle of coins or whatever.

 

[RudeJeepin]

Not sure if these would help...
https://smile.amazon.com/AZUTO-Jeep...prefix=jeep+jl+door+cup+holder,aps,241&sr=8-7

 

[JT1]

@ShadowsPapa, quadratec showed a new design I hadn't seen before on their JtE show truck.. seems to be a drop in with as much storage as you can get where the seat interferes with it, and a bulge at the front of the door.. I don't recognize the logo, but maybe someone else will

 

[Gatorized]

@ShadowsPapa, quadratec showed a new design I hadn't seen before on their JtE show truck.. seems to be a drop in with as much storage as you can get where the seat interferes with it, and a bulge at the front of the door.. I don't recognize the logo, but maybe someone else will

Inside, the seats were treated to Katzkin leather, an Alpine dash system, Quadratec floor liners, and custom 3D-printed door pockets that eliminate those annoying mesh organizers that come standard on some Jeep vehicles.

 

[JT1]

Inside, the seats were treated to Katzkin leather, an Alpine dash system, Quadratec floor liners, and custom 3D-printed door pockets that eliminate those annoying mesh organizers that come standard on some Jeep vehicles.

Looks like we need to ask quadratec to make some for us..

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