Should you tie down a cooler in the trunk of a Prius?

if you tie down everything you buy and bring home in the hatch, then i suppose so. might depend on how you drive as well

 

If you can squeeze it in with out unlatching the back seats, it should be fine. Just be careful slamming the rear hatch; you may break the glass.
If you have to lower the back seats, I'd tie it down enough - so it doesn't become a projectile and break my back or neck in a abrupt stop or rear end collision.

Hope this helps....

 

Turns on how much of a psychotic crazed wacko Speed Demon Corner hugging driver you are. On the other end of the spectrum, I left a pair of C-clamp vise grips on the passenger Step Up sitting on the Mercedes motorhome and when we drove 100 miles down to Lake Placid Montana, lo & behold my wife opens her door and says, "you've got to be kidding". They were still sitting there. LOL
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You're driving a gen4 Prius, are you sure you can accelerate fast enough to tumble a heavy cooler in the trunk?

 

Well, they CAN stop real fast.

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Yeah, but it will get toward the back seat where the trunk lid is higher.

 

Same reason spare is bolted. Missile in accident

 

On the way to Costco recently:

 

New rims?

 

What's the rope for?

 

Holds everything in place if you have to slam on the brakes presumably

 

That's what I thought too but the rope seems too loose.

 

Maybe - but it presumably beats using nothing

 

Let’s presume you don’t secure it as you evidently suspect you should. If anything did happen how hard are you going to kick yourself wishing you had followed your own instincts?

 

Everything’s snugged down good.

I never tie down coolers though. Maybe should, but it’d inconvenient for access, and they’re relatively light, “less” inertia in a crash.

 

even filled with beer?