Albino Rhino renamed THE BEAST

[Cautionary Tale]

Have 3 kids myself and we've done the rubberized car seat protectors with decent results. What's been great in my current Ram has been a thick blanket laid across the entire back seat. Takes up the bulk of the child seat imprint into the truck seat but also covers every square inch of material from spills and crumbs. I have a no-food policy except when we're on long road trips and the sacrificial blanket has done its job. The youngest also has the rubberized seat protector under her child seat on top of the blanket.

That is brilliant!

Sounds like something that will be changing in my truck here presently as well . I do the no food except long trips too but my kids still somehow manage to spill their drinks, even with spill proof cups, and sacrificial blanket would be like a clutch bounty towel, and keep me from searching for all the little drops that work their way everywhere.

Ty for the pro tip. I'd have thought after 7 plus years and 20 plus years of dogs I'd have thought that up myself

Sounds good on the local guy and assistance and yes I understand about the proper tools for doing it. My buddy has the professional tools and he did a door ding on my wife's VW and then some hood dimples and was done in like 30 minutes with the right tools and didn't have to remove anything...Crazy. I said how mush would that of cost me if you weren't my friend he said around $2K I'm like damn. He has done it for 20+ yrs and good at it.

The tools are crazy expensive too. My guy has over 60k into them. I have some and mostly just fix door dings, rock chip impacts and such on my own rides.

 

[tchokaeewe]

That is brilliant!

Sounds like something that will be changing in my truck here presently as well . I do the no food except long trips too but my kids still somehow manage to spill their drinks, even with spill proof cups, and sacrificial blanket would be like a clutch bounty towel, and keep me from searching for all the little drops that work their way everywhere.

Ty for the pro tip. I'd have thought after 7 plus years and 20 plus years of dogs I'd have thought that up myself


The tools are crazy expensive too. My guy has over 60k into them. I have some and mostly just fix door dings, rock chip impacts and such on my own rides.

Genius blanket idea was actually my wife's haha. I'm definitely copying the climbing rope you put it. Curious if anyone comes up with a good solution to prevent the dirty foot prints on the back of the front seats. That's been my biggest battle with the kids over the years.

 

[Cautionary Tale]

Genius blanket idea was actually my wife's haha. I'm definitely copying the climbing rope you put it. Curious if anyone comes up with a good solution to prevent the dirty foot prints on the back of the front seats. That's been my biggest battle with the kids over the years.

Seriously! I just cleaned them, had a talk with my boys about it again, then today I look and all marked up. My buddy did turn me onto these: https://builtrightind.com/products/seat-back-tech-plate-molle-kit-ram?variant=46279960166614 but I'm not sure it would entirely eliminate the issue, might just create little, tiny square shaped new problems and if they can't stop kicking my current seat, putting stuff on the molle might just make the problem worse. Curious on your take though.

BTW, please pass on my thanks to your wife. Great idea and I'll be incorporating that across our vehicles.

 

[jb37]

im sure there are official rules against it ... but good for a laugh (not my truck not my kids )

 

[Cautionary Tale]

im sure there are official rules against it ... but good for a laugh (not my truck not my kids )
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LMAO...Wildly unsafe, but my boys would love it...at least one would, the other maybe not so much.

Oddly enough it might be legal in my state. Maybe... They tried to make riding in bed illegal in my state but farmers united and stopped it. I'd imagine age plays a factor though.

I'm not sure if some kind of ankle restraints would be legal either, but that'd also solve the feet on back seat issue If CPS is reading this, I'm totally kidding. I'd never be so creative

 

[D&Sadventure]

Does anybody remember the Subaru brat

 

[kaos_859]

Does anybody remember the Subaru brat

For our younger members: random Subaru Brat image from the Internet.

 

[RamFan]

So way long ago(1999) before some of you I'm sure had a drivers license, before Weathertech was mainstream etc. I used homemade protectors from my son in my E320.

I used heavy towels under his car seat to disperse the weight and prevent permanent stretching of the leather(which it did) and collect spills or accidents.

I put something similar to this on the back of my drivers seat as he too was a kicker lol

And then put cheap rag rugs from WalMart on the back carpets to keep mud and such off of them and it all worked. Much less expensive but not as elegant looking as what you guys have but this was 26 years ago


Chris

 

[Cautionary Tale]

So way long ago(1999) before some of you I'm sure had a drivers license, before Weathertech was mainstream etc. I used homemade protectors from my son in my E320.

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I used heavy towels under his car seat to disperse the weight and prevent permanent stretching of the leather(which it did) and collect spills or accidents.

I put something similar to this on the back of my drivers seat as he too was a kicker lol
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And then put cheap rag rugs from WalMart on the back carpets to keep mud and such off of them and it all worked. Much less expensive but not as elegant looking as what you guys have but this was 26 years ago


Chris

I love the makeshift solutions and would have done the same years ago. This is our offroad, camping and shooting rig which has me trying to come up with solutions that are easy to clean and multipurpose but they aren't cheap, lol.