My car has this fairly useless foam insert filling an accessible void under the boot floor that has little inserts for the tow eye, etc. Under this is exposed car body and hybrid gubbins.
i’d like to create a custom ‘bucket’ to replace the OEM monstrosity that I can actually use to store odds and ends in. It sounds highly do-able to get something rubber or plastic based on the shape of the original but have no idea how to get it done, would prefer it not to be stupidly expensive.
Any thoughts or tips?
DIY vacuum forming on a wooden block buck?
3d scanning and make it out of laser cut folded/welded steel?
Old blanket and an IKEA bag or two - just throw stuff in there, blanket to stop it rattling around?
fibreglass on the foam insert then pick the foam out
I often find the best way to solve a design issue like this is to ask myself...
- How would [xyz] do it?
Of course this would have been preceded with...
- How much time, money, effort you are willing to expend.
and most importantly...
- Who, on a scale from 'mat out and about' to the 'BOM / Project Binky folks', would I pay to solve it for me.
