We own a mini-van. It is the best vehicle we have ever owned (at least from my point of view), everything opens, the seat's lie flat in the floor and it holds 7 people when you need it to.
The manufacturers included a really cool feature called "Stow 'n Go" seating. This is a bucket under the floor into which the seats fold up and stow. It has a a solid cover too. When the seats are up, this area can be used for storage. Cool feature...but there are some unexpected consequences with it also.
I took it to the local car cleaning place to was and vacuum it. Trying to do the best job, I opened the cover and uuuugggghhhh!. We have two you children, everything they eat when we are on the go, at least a small portion of it seems to have ended up being stowed in this bucket. It was nasty!. Most of it was a little too big for the vacuum to inhale and consequently I had to pick it all out by hand. Gross!
Heres an idea, given that 90% of the people who buy mini-vans, are families with young children, why not put a little liner in there. You can just pick it up and dump it in the trash. Make it out of rubber or a solid plastic, then I can wash it too. Now you would have thought the geniuses at Chrysler would have thought of that, given the market.
I officially rename "Stow 'n Go" seating to "Science Experiment" seating. It is written, it is done.
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