Interior storage options

[TeamOxford]

Originally Posted by daffodildeb

I just bought a 2002 Boxster S, and I love it! My only complaint is that there's not a conventional glove box. There's a large open space under the dash, in front of the gear shift, and I imagine someone has figured out an after market storage unit that will fit there. Suggestions? This has a manual transmission, if that makes a difference.

Could you post a pic of this "large open space under the dash"? You may have the console delete, which deprives you of single or double DIN cubbyholes.

For all practical purposes, the Boxster has ample storage space (for a sports car), you just have to root it out.

Just sayin'...............

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[kk2002s]

I don't find any real need for a glove box. With the door pockets and center console it's about equal to other cars with a glove box. And most glove boxes just barely hold the paperwork and manual anyways and of course the all important leather driving gloves

You could also remove that piece of S!#* thing Porsche calls a cup holder and make a cubby. Would be much more useful and you would have less cleanup to do from everything that spills out of the cups in the cup holders

[robdelorenzo]

At first I thought storage space would be an issue, but it's really not.
I have yet to find a good solution for the registration and insurance card other than locked and hidden away in one of the trunks.
(that actually got me out of a ticket once, since the cop didn't want take the time for me to root it out. He was very cool and asked a lot of questions about the car. Once I told him how they had depreciated out, he started asking me about how to buy one)

[Starter986]

Originally Posted by robdelorenzo

At first I thought storage space would be an issue, but it's really not.
I have yet to find a good solution for the registration and insurance card other than locked and hidden away in one of the trunks.
(that actually got me out of a ticket once, since the cop didn't want take the time for me to root it out. He was very cool and asked a lot of questions about the car. Once I told him how they had depreciated out, he started asking me about how to buy one)

Registration and insurance... behind the passenger seat, in the pouch.

However, I just might go the trunk/frunk route to capitalize on the scenario you described.

[BFeller]

Originally Posted by Starter986

Registration and insurance... behind the passenger seat, in the pouch.

However, I just might go the trunk/frunk route to capitalize on the scenario you described.

Mine are in a case, setting in the tray under the steering wheel.

[robdelorenzo]

I didn't want my paperwork nicked from the pouch, so I keep it in a large Ziplock, inside of a Thomas Guide (anyone remember those?), wrapped in a towel, buried in the frunk.

It's actually worked twice now that I think about it.

Another time I wound up in line for a DUI checkpoint.
I'm not a drinker, so no problem there.
I had the top down, there was a long line behind me, and when I explained to the officer where they were and what it would take to get them, he waved me through!

Living in SoCal, I hate having the top up!

YMMV though.

[Starter986]

Originally Posted by BFeller

Mine are in a case, setting in the tray under the steering wheel.

Completely forgot about that tray!

[MWS]

Originally Posted by kk2002s

You could also remove that piece of S!#* thing Porsche calls a cup holder and make a cubby. Would be much more useful and you would have less cleanup to do from everything that spills out of the cups in the cup holders

The cup holders are pefefectly adequate and engineered to meet design and functional requirements.

I assume the parameters submitted to the engineering group were to hold a container of a specified size and weight (and not to exceed such), that the liquid inside such container would not chill the container below the dew point and that the container at no point in time would have any exterior forces acting upon it (by assumption, the vehicle would remain stationary).

Design accomplished...kudos and bonuses for everyone on the team.

[daffodildeb]

"Delete" seems to be the operative word, but it's not the console. I do have a locking armrest compartment. Hopefully these photos will help.


BTW, while you're looking at the photos, is there anything I can do to replace or refinish the gearshift knob that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?