And the best part is, 8 years later, I still own my Journey with about 165k on the clock, no major problems.
The can of Great Stuff did a nice job of filling the area between the floor pan and bin, and did make a big difference. Still not as good as a Yeti cooler, though .
Okay, to refresh people's memories (it was eight years ago, afterall):
The reason I did this was in the advertising and promotion of the 2009 model year Journey, pictures like this were used:
Look at all those cans of soda (pop) in there...and ice! I figured this has to be the place to put something that I want to keep cold (or warm) without the hassle of a cooler sliding around in the back. Nope, my first experiment with this came real close to simmering my brown bag lunch, even with an ice pack. It also led to a lot of moisture between the bin and floorpan from condensation, of course this is a big no-no with steel for obvious reasons. Quickly recognizing the lack of insulation and ease of heat movement into this compartment through the floorpan, I set out to find a simple way to make what was implicitly suggested by this picture actually work.
Let's say that I got reasonably close with my solution in the OP. It works, but nowhere near as well as some of the nicer coolers out there. If I had actually worked up the ambition to go all the way and add active solid-state cooling to this setup, I probably would have posted a follow-up post showing my work. Let's face it, looking at pictures of applied conformal expanding foam isn't all that exciting, especially when it doesn't make more than a couple incremental gains.
Mind you, this isn't the first case where someone in Chrysler marketing has pulled this stunt. One has to look no further than how many bottles or cases of beer a Ram box will hold.
And the best part is, 8 years later, I still own my Journey with about 165k on the clock, no major problems.
The can of Great Stuff did a nice job of filling the area between the floor pan and bin, and did make a big difference. Still not as good as a Yeti cooler, though .
And the best part is, 8 years later, I still own my Journey with about 165k on the clock, no major problems.
The can of Great Stuff did a nice job of filling the area between the floor pan and bin, and did make a big difference. Still not as good as a Yeti cooler, though .
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