New 2010 Prius Setup as my work vehicle help needed ?

i would use a quilted shipping blanket. maybe velcro it up the sides?

 

On the outside, you can put a bumper guard on the upper portion of the bumper.

http://priuschat.com/attachments/rear-bumper-cover-2-jpg.63894/

If you are using it for "work", there is really no way to "protect" it from getting scratched. The plastic edges will eventually get scratched up. The good thing is, they are replaceable, held together by clips. If they scratched to the point you can't take it anymore, just remove and replace with a new piece. Repeat if necessary.

On my Prius cars, I use my 2006 as my work vehicle. It's scratched from the inside back hatch area and on the outside. But I don't really care because that's what work vehicles will eventually look like if used for work.

My family vehicle is the 2010, which is in pristine condition. Not sure you can really mix business with pleasure....I sure can't.

 

i wonder if you could use those removable 3m picture hooks?

 

they work great on walls, i just don't know about putting them on the plastic trim. you could try suction cups on the bottoms of the windows.

 

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I had a Canvasback liner in my Subaru Outback and I used that like a truck to haul the dog, yard waste, home project stuff, etc. and it cleaned up well.

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The PriusChat shop bumper guard is the OEM guard. It protects your bumper from (minor) damage from you, e.g. temporarily resting heavy objects on the bumper. It doesn't protect your rear bumper from other bumpers, perhaps from people with poor parallel parking skills.

For the latter, you might consider something like these:
Bumper Protection, Bumper Protectors, Bumper Guards Protect Your Car from Bumper Damage

They also have some stuff for corners. (These do start to look rather garish on ones car, of course, rather like what one might imagine a fearful father padding his teenage daughter's car with when she first learns to drive. On the other hand if your work involves the rear end of your vehicle being frequently subject to really light "nudges" from cars or other things banging into the bumper a lot, such bumper guards might look less silly.) Obviously they won't protect against outright recklessness like someone swinging a fire extinguisher around to wear on their back (I don't really know how those're used in your line of work).

Got a picture of what 10 fire extinguishers're supposed to look like ideally when arranged the way you'd need them to be in the cargo area? If it's always "10 fire extinguishers of the same type in the same configuration", it almost sounds like you should have some kinda rack that holds them all like the Ghostbusters did..

 

Wait.. it sounds like I'm thinking of something entirely different when I hear the term "fire extinguisher" than what you are. I'm thinking of something shaped like a scuba tank and sized almost the same or just a little smaller. I can't imagine 13 of those fitting anywhere the spare tire space would hold.

(I also have a PiP where the spare tire area has been commandeered for the giant battery used during EV mode, so I'm less familiar with how it looks in the spare wheel variants. We don't get a spare tire, but this weird small little box and tool that seem to be emergency patch and inflation systems.) If they will all fit under the "floor" of the cargo area though, then that actually sounds pretty slick!

 

What I liked about Canvasback was that I could work with them to customize what I wanted. Their normal offering for the Outback was a solid fabric floor. I wanted to retain access to the under-floor storage area of the Outback where I stored the wheelchair leg rests my late wife used. I sent them measurements and they visited a used car lot and confirmed them. For about $20 extra, they made me a custom cover with cutouts for the edges of the floor hatch and the handle.

 

If you're talking about the 3M "Command hooks" that attach with a removable adhesive liner: that adhesive doesn't like heat much either. I have tried using them to attach a flat plastic TV antenna to a window at home - they just dry up and fall off. (In fairness, I think it said on the packaging they wouldn't work in direct sunlight, but I figured I'd try anyway.)

That Canvasback liner does look good if it's thick enough to protect the floor from your cargo and doesn't slide around when you put heavy stuff in. The price is roughly twice what I paid for the OEM all weather cargo mat, which is thick rubber but only covers the floor - thus leaving me to throw down a moving blanket or tarp when I want to put the seats down. So that actually seems like a good deal for a one-piece solution. (Especially if they'll customize as they did for car compulsive.)

 

In my v, I always leave the rear seats down, I just use a generic rear cargo cover installed backwards over the rear seats, and under the real cargo liner where they overlap