09-08-2014, 11:27 PM
Hello, I've just joined - my first forum!
I'm a dog walker in Glasgow and have just bought an XTR 2009 trading in my beloved Honda Jazz (actually vey practical dog car if you only ever need to take 4 dogs otherwise I'd consider keeping it) and was hoping to remove the back seats and create a large cabin to make two distinct front and rear sections for the dogs.
I'm not a fan of individual cages as the dogs I have all get on and so I don't think I need to go to that level of restraint but being able to keep 3 in back and 3 in 'front' for ease when collecting and dropping off would make life simpler.
I was thinking about buying a bespoke Barjo tailgate guard and have seen a few on ebay etc (as admittedly I'm struggling to afford a new one).
I was also thinking about a mid cabin divider and wondered if anyone else had one? This would be a full height divider to sit where the rear seats would. Any advice or experience of those would be great especially where to buy one - most are for use when the rear seats are still in place.
When I looked at the XTR I got all excited about the various storage areas but was disappointed to see that there was no interior roof storage box. I would really have make good use of one of those and didn't know if anyone could tell me if you could retro buy and fit them. I'm maybe describing the pull down box wrongly - it's shown here in the photo. Maybe my car is too old and it's something that only new ones come with?
Last thing (it's now very obvious I've not been on a forum before and am a typical girl that asks about everything) I was going to ask for advice on was - do you think it would be worth my while removing and selling the two exterior roof rails as I will never need them and maybe the money could go towards interior accessories or will it just damage the roof?
Thanks anyone for either staying awake to read this or replying, lynda
I'm a dog walker in Glasgow and have just bought an XTR 2009 trading in my beloved Honda Jazz (actually vey practical dog car if you only ever need to take 4 dogs otherwise I'd consider keeping it) and was hoping to remove the back seats and create a large cabin to make two distinct front and rear sections for the dogs.
I'm not a fan of individual cages as the dogs I have all get on and so I don't think I need to go to that level of restraint but being able to keep 3 in back and 3 in 'front' for ease when collecting and dropping off would make life simpler.
I was thinking about buying a bespoke Barjo tailgate guard and have seen a few on ebay etc (as admittedly I'm struggling to afford a new one).
I was also thinking about a mid cabin divider and wondered if anyone else had one? This would be a full height divider to sit where the rear seats would. Any advice or experience of those would be great especially where to buy one - most are for use when the rear seats are still in place.
When I looked at the XTR I got all excited about the various storage areas but was disappointed to see that there was no interior roof storage box. I would really have make good use of one of those and didn't know if anyone could tell me if you could retro buy and fit them. I'm maybe describing the pull down box wrongly - it's shown here in the photo. Maybe my car is too old and it's something that only new ones come with?
Last thing (it's now very obvious I've not been on a forum before and am a typical girl that asks about everything) I was going to ask for advice on was - do you think it would be worth my while removing and selling the two exterior roof rails as I will never need them and maybe the money could go towards interior accessories or will it just damage the roof?
Thanks anyone for either staying awake to read this or replying, lynda