And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Got something similar to that, but it fits to an Alice back pack frame, MOLLE all over, really like it over the standard sack pack, lot better balance and it rides far better using lots of pouches.
1) Yes, it'd be bait. If you're an idiot. If you get a couple of black or dark grey bath sheets to cover them, they blend with the upholstery. Mine haven't been molested once in four+ years that way.
2) Chinesium is the rule. The ones you want just use a belt around the headrest, and another around the lower seat, of quality webbing, which is all you need to get the job done. I tried the ones that were all-over seat covers with multiple side attachment points. That part of the rack was a multi-level fail. The seat back portion was in shreds in weeks of daily use, the side buckles separated one by one, and eventually, the only thing holding it in place were the headrest belt, and the lower seat belt. That was for the driver's side.
The passenger side set, which is seldom occupied, is as good as the day it came out of the package, as originally installed. But obviously, it would not hold up to daily wear if anyone sat in that seat regularly, and would revert to the same condition as the driver's side set. Which is still functional, even with 80% of the original attachments shredded. Apparently eight is one, and one is none. Clearly, the Number Sixteen Shanghai People's Seat Pouch Factory is a little unclear on the concept of "built for normal wear and tear".
I have multiple first aid kits with exactly what I want, exactly where I need them. As in one for me, and a couple basic blood and guts kits to toss to others should I happen on a multi-victim accident. Which has happened. And they all pull loose from sturdy velcro attachments, and contain nothing that's going to degrade, even in a hot car.
I also have a pouch with a small but quality set of simple hand tools for repairs, including a set of leather work gloves. Another with fluid cap, band, belt, bulb, and fuse spares. One with a set of battery-powered road flare flashers. With the batteries not installed, and swapped out for fresh ones annually.
On the passenger side, a Ten Essentials survival kit, one just for fire-making, and one for water processing/purification. One with a tarp and a set of quick-to-don rain gear, top with hood and bottoms, and one with a wool cap and cold weather gloves.
Now my trunk is nearly empty except for a set of jumper cables , a battery booster, a water can, sleeping bag, and empty gas can. (cont.)
I know exactly where important things are without thinking about them or looking for them all over the car, and where they'll still be even in an accident, even if it's a roll-over. I don't have to remember to put anything in the car, because it's all already there.
The only change I'd make that I haven't gotten around to doing is to sew the towels with a tunnel top and bottom, for a pair of bungee cords to hold them. As it is now, the tops are pinched under the headrests by friction, and the bottoms are tucked under the bottom edge of the MOLLE panels, and you can't see jack hanging there day or night but a pair of towels. And you have to look real hard to see they're towels, and not just the seat backs. One tug and I can get to all of either side in about half a second.
This has nothing to do with "tacticool", mine are black, because that blends best with the dark grey interior upholstery and carpet.
It the cheapskates who underbuilt the front and seat pan panels had used actual 1000D cordura instead of Wang's #1 Poly-Chinesium Ready Fail Fabric with Self-Removing waterproofing on the underside, they'd have been perfect from the get-go.
As it is, they've been worth all of the $30@ or so I paid for each of them when I put them in, even though they could have been notably improved with a minor upgrade in quality. Better would be just a seatback MOLLE panel, and spending more money doing that perfectly, and letting folks add their own pouches, as I did, of vastly better quality than the ones included with most of those sets. The pouches I used weren't the crap ones that came with it, they're actual quality MOLLE utility bags that'll outlast the car they're in, most of which were spares I already had.
It might not work for you if you have a significant other and multiple rug rats crawling all over it daily, and/or your car is tiny with little legroom as it is. Mine's a sedan that usually just carries me. Getting a continuous version for a pick-up bench seat, OTOH, would probably be a killer great idea. But don't knock the concept until you try it. There's a lot to recommend this, and the only thing better would have been the maker putting in high-quality OEM MOLLE grid panels on seatbacks at the factory, or at least on the sides and backs of the car trunk.
Begging to be stolen
ReplyDeleteYup. Park this at a trailhead near any pop center and it's gone.
DeleteBut on reconsideration it would make great bait.
DeleteIt makes as much sense as camouflage uniforms for sailors.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that there might not be any room for adult passangers with this contraption mounted on the back of the front seat.
ReplyDeleteGot something similar to that, but it fits to an Alice back pack frame, MOLLE all over, really like it over the standard sack pack, lot better balance and it rides far better using lots of pouches.
ReplyDeleteGot a link?
DeleteI think we may have jumped the shark with the "tactical" everything trend.
ReplyDeleteIf it’s black and tactical it might trigger someone into thinking you’re MAGA and evil
DeleteThe local zogbots would have a field day rifling through that just because...
ReplyDeleteIf the rest of the car was camouflaged...
ReplyDeleteWhy is everything in the US 'tactical'?
ReplyDeleteI have two of those.
ReplyDeleteSome firsthand observations:
1) Yes, it'd be bait. If you're an idiot.
If you get a couple of black or dark grey bath sheets to cover them, they blend with the upholstery. Mine haven't been molested once in four+ years that way.
2) Chinesium is the rule. The ones you want just use a belt around the headrest, and another around the lower seat, of quality webbing, which is all you need to get the job done.
I tried the ones that were all-over seat covers with multiple side attachment points. That part of the rack was a multi-level fail. The seat back portion was in shreds in weeks of daily use, the side buckles separated one by one, and eventually, the only thing holding it in place were the headrest belt, and the lower seat belt.
That was for the driver's side.
The passenger side set, which is seldom occupied, is as good as the day it came out of the package, as originally installed. But obviously, it would not hold up to daily wear if anyone sat in that seat regularly, and would revert to the same condition as the driver's side set. Which is still functional, even with 80% of the original attachments shredded. Apparently eight is one, and one is none.
Clearly, the Number Sixteen Shanghai People's Seat Pouch Factory is a little unclear on the concept of "built for normal wear and tear".
I have multiple first aid kits with exactly what I want, exactly where I need them. As in one for me, and a couple basic blood and guts kits to toss to others should I happen on a multi-victim accident. Which has happened. And they all pull loose from sturdy velcro attachments, and contain nothing that's going to degrade, even in a hot car.
I also have a pouch with a small but quality set of simple hand tools for repairs, including a set of leather work gloves. Another with fluid cap, band, belt, bulb, and fuse spares. One with a set of battery-powered road flare flashers. With the batteries not installed, and swapped out for fresh ones annually.
On the passenger side, a Ten Essentials survival kit, one just for fire-making, and one for water processing/purification. One with a tarp and a set of quick-to-don rain gear, top with hood and bottoms, and one with a wool cap and cold weather gloves.
Now my trunk is nearly empty except for a set of jumper cables , a battery booster, a water can, sleeping bag, and empty gas can.
(cont.)
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ReplyDeleteI know exactly where important things are without thinking about them or looking for them all over the car, and where they'll still be even in an accident, even if it's a roll-over. I don't have to remember to put anything in the car, because it's all already there.
The only change I'd make that I haven't gotten around to doing is to sew the towels with a tunnel top and bottom, for a pair of bungee cords to hold them. As it is now, the tops are pinched under the headrests by friction, and the bottoms are tucked under the bottom edge of the MOLLE panels, and you can't see jack hanging there day or night but a pair of towels. And you have to look real hard to see they're towels, and not just the seat backs. One tug and I can get to all of either side in about half a second.
This has nothing to do with "tacticool", mine are black, because that blends best with the dark grey interior upholstery and carpet.
It the cheapskates who underbuilt the front and seat pan panels had used actual 1000D cordura instead of Wang's #1 Poly-Chinesium Ready Fail Fabric with Self-Removing waterproofing on the underside, they'd have been perfect from the get-go.
As it is, they've been worth all of the $30@ or so I paid for each of them when I put them in, even though they could have been notably improved with a minor upgrade in quality. Better would be just a seatback MOLLE panel, and spending more money doing that perfectly, and letting folks add their own pouches, as I did, of vastly better quality than the ones included with most of those sets. The pouches I used weren't the crap ones that came with it, they're actual quality MOLLE utility bags that'll outlast the car they're in, most of which were spares I already had.
It might not work for you if you have a significant other and multiple rug rats crawling all over it daily, and/or your car is tiny with little legroom as it is. Mine's a sedan that usually just carries me. Getting a continuous version for a pick-up bench seat, OTOH, would probably be a killer great idea. But don't knock the concept until you try it. There's a lot to recommend this, and the only thing better would have been the maker putting in high-quality OEM MOLLE grid panels on seatbacks at the factory, or at least on the sides and backs of the car trunk.