Hey guys! I decided to make the secret door guide expand into a more extensive Reddit guide featuring other types of secret compartments with the end goal being a wiki in our subreddit as one user suggested. Unfortunately, I am out of ideas about other types of secret compartments, so for today, it is a short post about secret compartments in cars. If anybody has any requests for other secret compartments please comment and let me know, I will add it to the future wiki.

To start, secret compartments in cars can be kind of a dangerous project as they are outlawed in 5 states because they make for good hiding places for drugs. That is dumb, but please do not attempt this if you live in Ohio, Georgia, California, Illinois, or Oregon. I could very well be missing a few laws too so please triple-check before you start this project. I am not liable for any crazy laws your country/state/city may have.

Secret Car Compartment

There are 2 main ways to make an easy secret compartment in a car, and both of them do not have much space. Amazon sells this Fake Car Lighter for about $10 for 2 and it has enough space for some cash or other small items. Seems like an easy solution but it doesn’t allow a lot of space.

The next option you have is to find a disc-shaped candy container such as this Ice Breaker Container or even a regular rectangular Altoid tin. You will see where I am going with this shortly. The goal here is to make the container fit into the bottom of a cupholder or center console tray in order to create a sort of false bottom compartment. Once you have found the container, you either need to pull the rubber mat up from the cupholder or tray, and glue it to the top of your container while making sure it still is able to open. Sometimes the rubber mat will not come up, in which case I recommend this to cut your own mat. Then, superglue an inconspicuous item to the top of that so you have a handle to lift your new secret compartment. I personally like to use a plastic bottle cap for this purpose.

I apologize there was not a very interesting topic this week, but comment, Reddit chat, or PM me some ideas, and I will use them in later guides.