Storage of Rear Seats

[Housemanager]

I have a 2019 Lariat with extended cab. I have removed the bottom seat cushions for tool storage. They have been under foot for a long time. I wish to store them elsewhere. Was considering the attic. It is not a sealed attic, and I was wondering what you all think of storing them there. I do live in a hot, salt air climate. Will probably not reinstall them until I sell the truck.

Your thoughts

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[Tom_C]

You're in VA beach, right? Not a sealed attic, meaning, it's open to rodents, or it's just not conditioned space? As long as it's sealed against rodents then I'd put them in a plastic bag in the attic they should be fine. I assume they are leather since it's a lariat so give them a good coating of leather treatment before you store them.

Better yet would be to put them in the back of a closet in your house. They aren't going to take up that much room.

 

[D Fresh]

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[Motorpsychology]

I have a 2019 Lariat with extended cab. I have removed the bottom seat cushions for tool storage. They have been under foot for a long time. I wish to store them elsewhere. Was considering the attic. It is not a sealed attic, and I was wondering what you all think of storing them there. I do live in a hot, salt air climate. Will probably not reinstall them until I sell the truck.

Your thoughts

I did the same thing. I still have the factory seatback in the truck, but the cushions & rear headrests I simply double bagged with tall kitchen garbage bags and new dryer sheets and put them on a storage rack I have in my garage. I have had no problems with pests with my 2009 Mariner rear headrests I've stored the same way. I think the trick is to not seal the bags tightly, so that they can breathe a little. I don't have a critter problem, but the dryer sheets hopefully will/is keeping them away.

Sidebar:
When we moved into our townhome six years ago, I set out three or four mousetraps around the garage and utility room with peanut butter as bait, as preventative maintenance. When I checked on them a couple days later, all the peanut butter was gone and the traps were still armed; spiders love peanut butter, too, and can levitate over the trap and lick them clean!

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Everything everyone else said but if you’re concerned about humidity, you could try cloth laundry bags instead of plastic.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Sidebar:
When we moved into our townhome six years ago, I set out three or four mousetraps around the garage and utility room with peanut butter as bait, as preventative maintenance. When I checked on them a couple days later, all the peanut butter was gone and the traps were still armed; spiders love peanut butter, too, and can levitate over the trap and lick them clean!

I set mousetraps with PB at the cottage in a couple of key outdoor areas. Checked later, one was sprung with some blood soaked into the wooden platform but no rodent. Seemed like a lot of blood for an injured mouse.

I didn’t see the red squirrel around for a couple of days but, nope, it wasn’t him - he showed up in time. I reset the trap with PB and about ten minutes later, I spotted a cat lurking around the side of the cottage where I placed one of the traps. Maybe it was the cat the first time and he still hadn’t learned his lesson.

Imagine the irony if it was! ?

 

[MountainGoat]

I just threw mine in a shed in the backyard and put the green mouse poison box in there. I'm not really too worried about it but I have cloth supercab seats.

 

[Toytec]

I've got some bed comforters I store away in those vacuum sealed storage bags and toss them in the crawl space. I bought an assortment of those from amazon. Might be an idea.
Other than that, I like the seats covering my storage compartments. There's a lot of peering eyes these days busting into vehicles.

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