Ford F150 Hidden Storage Access

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That’s a surprisingly large storage area for things you don’t want rolling around and in the way 95% of the time. But don’t want to be without the other 5%. Extra old clothes is a super smart addition. For rags or a dry set of clothes to change into if temp drops or you get wet.

I got this a number of years back. It’s cheap, easy to install, and works great. You can also get some panels with pouches and straps that attach to the back of the seat to hold items in an organized manner.

Thanks Michael never knew that was there, but that part is $35 now. For 35 Ill drill a hole and put 12ga wire.

In my 2013' F-150 FX4., the subwoofer is under the smaller left seat. The whole back was open and I bought two of the latches a few years ago. . Great idea.

Some previous owner put a bungee cord on mine, 2014 F150 XLT XTR & it's accessed that way. Be a good idea to oil that latch on the back of the seat too. Ours hung open in the lock position and getting the seat to latch back in place was a pain.

Just be aware that all after market latch releases will NOT work on some years F150s. I tried two different brands on my '19 and neither worked as the pull angle need to be "just right'. My release that works is a 2 foot piece of 1/8" para cord that I had for other uses and looped through one of the headrest pins Also. again depending on the model, that space may be partially/fully filled by a sub woofer and/or a 120VAC inverter. My past truck, an F350 CC had enough space plus a woofer that all kinds of things went there If you have the open space, lots of 'treasures' can be stored behind those seats.

My 2014 rear passenger side pulls down as well. I have one of those do-dads on both sides.

There is only room back there on lower trim models. The upper trim models and trucks with premium audio have the subwoofer and amp back there.

Dang! All this time (got an F 150 that's 10 y.o., and a New one), and never knew how to access that "Wasted Space"! Thanks, and I'll be buying at least 1 of those gadgets, for SURE...!

Good video. thanks for your time. So when you make a video are you using you cell or just a digital camera. I need to make that a project and upload some things that can be helpful to others. I need to dig my digital camera out. again, thanks.

New sub because of this, Video was posted a year ago and was $10 now its $35 talk about inflation! Great discovery on the idea though! Looking forward to other videos!

If you can’t get your big hands behind the seat to release the latch remove the bolt in bottom corner of the seat back push it back then it makes it easier to get your hands in there and this works for supper duty trucks as well

Very helpful! Great idea! Thanks!

I bought one of these. It is an amazing improvement. I wish GMC/Chevy had something like this (our other truck).

Cheers for this. Awesome tip thanks!

That's pretty cool. I seen the other guys video first so I did it his way. Had everything needed in my shop. I never imagined there'd be a part u could buy😅

What is the trick to getting the seatback to latch back when you are putting everything back? It took me forever to get mine to latch and I am still not sure what I did. It seems like I had to line up (by hand) the pin that the latch locks onto.

holy crap man.. I've been trying to figure out how to flip that stinking thing down since i bought the truck thank you

Not positive of the reason for the shortage area behind the seat, but I think it was for a sub woofer and amp from factory on the higher end FORD trucks. I think it was a King Ranch I saw a video on that had those behind the 60% part of the seat.