Tinted the back windows on top of the privacy glass

 

Morimoto LED fog's

 

Changed oil rotated tires and replaced air & cabin filter on my 14. If you don't mind laying on the floor you can change oil and filter without having to raise the car up, super easy!

 

Sprayed Corrosion X all over the the underside of my car.

http://www.shop.corrosionx.com/Corro...-90101-X12.htm

 

Detailed and waxed, Stargazer Paint!

Stargazer Paint

 

I almost drove mine off a cliff

 

Waouh! Impressive with 22' wheels your RX. Welcome to the club !

 

It might seem like a minor and petty thing to do, but I got tired of not having a decent trash container option, so I purchased a 2-gallon Rubbermaid trash can and made it fit behind the console in my '10 RXh. A little time with a heat gun, coupled with some spray on 3M contact cement, a few pieces of peel-n-stick industrial Velcro, some double-sided Velcro strap, and 5mm thick nylon coated neoprene, and the picture below is the result.

The Velcro keeps the can upright, the heated and custom formed front face lets it nestle nicely against the rear of the console, and the nylon faced neoprene keeps the plastic trash can from rubbing/wearing against the console.

 

Converted all interior bulbs to LED's.

 

I like you... And that's why I have to say, I think you're better than this mod.
2 gallons? TWO gallons!?? By the time you are creating enough trash in a car to actually require two gallons of storage for it, some of it is food and you can't leave trashed food in a car for the length of time it'll take two full a two gallon container. It's going to stink to high Hell. At least you'll have all the neoprene to... Absorb that stink and perhaps some of the garbage liquids... Barf!
The heat forming was brilliant. The size is too big (might even partially obstruct the rear air flow). Neoprene was a sub-optimal choice and the Velcro straps just don't look like a guy with your smarts put it in.
Now I feel like Simon Cowl!
Smaller can. Male Velcro on the base. Profit?

I'm so sorry! It's sure not like you have to care what I think. Just some internet guy's $0.02

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ColAngus... I DO appreciate your input and perspectives -- truly -- and I do not feel put off by them in any manner at all. I freely admit it looks a lot cheesier in the flashed photo than it does in real life, and yes, I am better than this mod, but I am also old enough and pragmatic enough to know when I need to settle on something non-ideal and just move on to more important things. Besides, it can be changed (upgraded, improved) at a later date. As you can see below, I've already put too much thought into this contraption, and will more than likely NOT revisit the design strategy any time soon. As a side note, I initially didn't over share all of my thought processes below because my 30,000 foot mindset tells me that a trash can is probably not worth the amount of thought I've already invested. Since you've raised the issues, though, I'll respond as succinctly as possible.

Two gallons? Yes -- overkill, BUT -- convenienct... I could not find a decent looking smaller black container, and when my wife and I are on the road for one of our long weekends, the volume is handy. Also... the can is high enough such that when you reach back between the seats to drop something in it, you know it's going to land inside the can. It is also just tall enough that the top lip barely... barely rises above the bottom edge of the A/C vent openings, so it actually does not impede air flow. Our actual daily trash accumulation is measured by what can be held in one hand, and is emptied every day. On road trips, it is often emptied at every fill-up, but between fill-ups, we can accumulate a nice collection of large water bottles which would easily overflow a much smaller container.

Nylon bonded neoprene is sub-par? Perhaps. Perhaps silicone would have been more ideal, but getting it to stick is an issue, and making it form NEATLY to the heat-shaped can could not have been nicely done. As it is, the heat-forming left a rather hobbledy-cobbledy surface which is very cleanly masked by the neoprene. I'm satisfied with my choice on this issue, especially since there will never be a liquid or food level high enough for anything to ever get "absorbed". You see, any food we dispose of inside the car is always put into plastic bags and removed at the very next stop. I do not allow residual liquids to be put into my vehicle trash cans, either. There is NO food accumulation at all, but can be some plastic and paper accumulation, but only for very short timelines.

Velcro straps... yeah... not my ideal choice either, but I did not want to put male Velcro on the face of the console where someone sitting in the middle (with trash can removed) could scratch their knees, or even worse, start getting pulled fiber on whatever they are wearing by having their knees press the fabric against the slightly rough textured Velcro. Besides, like I mentioned above, in the natural light of the dark interior, the straps are not very noticeable at all. Further shaping the can such that the lower portion could make contact with the slightly recessed console base proved to be not worth the effort. The additional distortion on the top side of the can would have been extreme and would have limited the size of the opening. I also didn't wan to weigh down the bottom of the can -- external weights would have made it too tall, and internal weights would make keeping the can interior clean more of an inconvenience.

Please don't apologize for your $0.02... those pennies have been invested into my thought process and will continue to rest along side my own penny-thoughts for a potential future implementation.

 

@F250 ^
Good stuff! I see the height being desirable to ensure the target is struck. And, if you're not tossing half empty milk cups in it, you should not suffer the stink of a dead dog in a hockey bag.
Do you have the rubberized floor mat in the rear that spans the centre? If not, I still think gluing "male" Velcro on the bottom of the/a can would allow the Velcro to hook into the carpet enough to provide complete stability and then you could avoid any strapping.
Now that I'm on a PC, I think it looks better than on my phone.

EDIT: I see your floor mat more clearly. Still, I would consider gluing male to bottom of can and female Velcro to the rubber mat.

 

I thought about the bottom Velcro as well, but with the ridges on the Weathertech floor liner, which does span the full width of the floor, I would really need to soften the bottom of the trash can and mold it for a more perfect fit before trusting the Velcro pads. I'm concerned with potentially overheating the bottom and perforating the plastic, thereby making it incapable of holding liquids (I know I said that we don;t dump liquids into it, but if someone were to get sick and need a repository, well... I really don't want to think about that very much. I'll probably let all these ideas continue to stew in the back of my mind and may just take another stab at it in the coming months.

 

Shave the ridge on the bottom of the can down or glue two layers of Velcro on so it's thick enough. The bottom of the can can look like garbage (LoL!) because no one will see it.
The bottom bottom of the can can look like garbage garbage.

 

I understand what you're saying, but there is no bottom ridge on the can... it is made with a rounded corners and edges, and there is even a slight upward "lift" in the center of the can so any fluids will simply settle at the outer edges of the bottom. If there were an outer ridge as you find on some cans, that could actually be very beneficial because I could slot that ridge to fit over the ridges on the floor liner.