How to attach cargo net?
04-01-2007, 01:03 PM
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How to attach cargo net?
Hi,
A year or two ago I bought a repro cargo net from one of the big 3. It has 4 hooks/links, one on each corner. I attached it to the four loops protruding through the hatch carpet. Only problem is that it looks really sloppy. It shrinks and crumples and wads up and since it is elastic it looks too small for the hatch floor, like it's shrunk or something.
I looked at an add for pearl white s4 today and they showed the net attached to the loops behind the rear seats and to the rear bar of the cargo cover. It looked promising but it deflects the cargo cover so it does not provide full coverage.
Does anyone even use their cargo net? How do you attach it for optimum function and looks?
Thanks,
A year or two ago I bought a repro cargo net from one of the big 3. It has 4 hooks/links, one on each corner. I attached it to the four loops protruding through the hatch carpet. Only problem is that it looks really sloppy. It shrinks and crumples and wads up and since it is elastic it looks too small for the hatch floor, like it's shrunk or something.
I looked at an add for pearl white s4 today and they showed the net attached to the loops behind the rear seats and to the rear bar of the cargo cover. It looked promising but it deflects the cargo cover so it does not provide full coverage.
Does anyone even use their cargo net? How do you attach it for optimum function and looks?
Thanks,
04-01-2007, 01:23 PM
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I use mine all the time. It's the original. It's never going to look great (not sloppy) but it works. When I first got the car I didn't use it because it looked "sloppy" but the first run to the grocery store and a quick stop on the way home, put half my groceries in the front seats. No problems since by using the net. It attaches to the two loops by the rear seats and the two bar/loops at the rear of the hatch floor. Mine reaches easily so maybe it's stretched out. Maybe yours just needs to stretch a little. If you arrange it flat and pull the corners out in all four directions, it doesn't look bad but mine blends in because it's black and I have a black cargo mat.
04-01-2007, 08:02 PM
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The only elastic in the origonal net is the perimeter cord. The rest is just nylon net. Bottom line is it will never be 'tight'. If it is, it won't hold much.
There are OEM/Factory nets in other cars that work better yet are not original. As a pursit I always look down on the lowly souls who dare stray from the path of original equipment truth and light, especially those in the quest for function. Late Taurus nets have a pull-cord on the perimeter of a real stretchy net. Put your stuff under it, pull the cord tight and it won't slide out underneath. There's a little squeeze-to-release gizmo that maintains the tension on the cord until you want it released. Without admitting guilt, I discovered this fine net hiding in the corner of the trunk of a rental car a few years ago. I set it free!!
Some of the other US car trunk nets might work, but most seem to be designed for holding stuff against the rear panel of the trunk, not really against the floor, so they may be too small.
In my collection of things, I have a few elastic nets that were sold by Wal-Mart to hold stuff on the carrier on your bicycle. I stocked up on them, since they work amazing well at keeping on-board sailboat 'stuff' from become flotsam or more likely sinksom. A few dollars each in the sporting good aisle a few (OK, maybe more...) years ago. There are similar nets sold to hold additional crap onto backpacks too.
As a Last Resort, there's really no magic to tying a net out of a mile of elastic cord. Fishermen have been doing it with string since even before that market blip episode with the loaves and such. Making one is like knitting for folks with really big fingers. Give me a few rolls of steel wool and I could knit a car! Realistically, it takes about an hour to figure out the way they work and less than 10 mins to actually make a reasonable likeness of an elastic luggage net. You can buy the elastic cord by the mile, no worries.
There are OEM/Factory nets in other cars that work better yet are not original. As a pursit I always look down on the lowly souls who dare stray from the path of original equipment truth and light, especially those in the quest for function. Late Taurus nets have a pull-cord on the perimeter of a real stretchy net. Put your stuff under it, pull the cord tight and it won't slide out underneath. There's a little squeeze-to-release gizmo that maintains the tension on the cord until you want it released. Without admitting guilt, I discovered this fine net hiding in the corner of the trunk of a rental car a few years ago. I set it free!!
Some of the other US car trunk nets might work, but most seem to be designed for holding stuff against the rear panel of the trunk, not really against the floor, so they may be too small.
In my collection of things, I have a few elastic nets that were sold by Wal-Mart to hold stuff on the carrier on your bicycle. I stocked up on them, since they work amazing well at keeping on-board sailboat 'stuff' from become flotsam or more likely sinksom. A few dollars each in the sporting good aisle a few (OK, maybe more...) years ago. There are similar nets sold to hold additional crap onto backpacks too.
As a Last Resort, there's really no magic to tying a net out of a mile of elastic cord. Fishermen have been doing it with string since even before that market blip episode with the loaves and such. Making one is like knitting for folks with really big fingers. Give me a few rolls of steel wool and I could knit a car! Realistically, it takes about an hour to figure out the way they work and less than 10 mins to actually make a reasonable likeness of an elastic luggage net. You can buy the elastic cord by the mile, no worries.
