list your $2.49 mods! Yup…. you can only post/list mods that cost you less than $2.49

[Amphibeast]

This was inspired by all the threads that go off on $350 unobtainium light guards and $2k gold plated rock sliders or gucci steering wheel covers…..

So here is my cheapest mod of the week… old extension cords for speaker wire! Yup… FREE! Speakers sound the same and I have a heavy gauge wire with a awesome insulator jacket too! Sorry Monster cable………. )-:

OK…. Who is next! Remember keep it functional & under $2.49… this includes sales tax!

PS.. Duct taped dixie cups for chew spit are really not functional or a good idea on the trail. Try to keep it real! :wings:

 

[Expedition.Report]

My truck has alot of blind spots with the canopy on.... I found some "blindspot mirrors" while refilling supplies on last years PNW trip at a Wal-Mart.

they look like they were meant to be there OEM style and I was just telling my pops the other day that it was the best thing I have ever done tht adds to the comfort of my Truck BAR NONE

 

[AA1PR]

cut the bottom off that Iceland plastic water bottle & you have an improvised funnel

 

[Thirty-Nine]

I had a cargo net out of our old Suzuki SX4. It didn't fit in our Suzuki Sidekick—nowhere to hang it. However, for about $2.00, I was able to get two carabiners (the key chain kind) that latch onto the grab handles in the back seat. Looped them through the net: et voilà, instant cargo carrier.

 

[Eaglefreek]

I get my relays from the junkyard. I get the ones out of GM vehicles that have the watertight connector. I clip the wires and they sell me the relay with connector for $2 plus tax. I have several of them in my car.

 

[anickode]

On my old Subaru wagon, I had mudflaps made from cheap IKEA cutting boards that cost 2.50 each. (Oops, a penny over) They were the perfect size, thickness, and stiffness to cut to shape with tin snips.

I Also found a jumbo-sized muffin pan with the removable silicone muffin cups at a yard sale for 2 bucks. It was missing one of the cups, but I didn't care. I took 2 of them and stuffed them in the cupholders in my pickup. The cupholders were evidently designed to hold long-haul truck driver sized travel mugs, so smaller stuff would wobble and tip over and spill constantly... now smaller travel cups, paper/foam coffee cups, "soda" cans, glass "root beer" bottles etc fit in there nice and snug, and when the cupholders get all grimy, I can pull them out and throw em in the dishwasher instead of spending 15 minutes with a rag and hot water scrubbing them out.

Old t-shirts make decent quick seat covers if you're all grimy from working on your vehicle/doing yard work/whatever and you don't want to go clean up before hopping in the wife's car and running to the hardware store/auto parts store/liquor store.

Milk crates are the PERFECT size to hold a 20# propane tank and keep it from flopping around during transport.

 

[anickode]

This tow hook (minus the shackle) cost me nothing to make... 1/4" wall square tube going into the receiver, 3/8" steel plate capping the square tube, and a piece of 1" thick A514 steel. I drew up the hook on AutoCAD and cut it out on the 200 amp cnc plasma table at work. Welded with metal core wire running pulsed spray transfer MIG at ~250 amps. All material was sourced from the scrap bin.

This hook has plucked many-a-vehicle from sand dunes snowbanks. It's even made me probably around 150 bucks in the last 2 years from people who absolutely insisted on paying me for saving them hours of shoveling snow and/or tow truck fees. Usually I refuse, but I pass by a couple very wealthy neighborhoods on my way to work, and we had some very big snowstorms last winter. Almost everyday there was somebody stuck in the snow just off the main road that the county had piled up in front of the gated entrance to the neighborhood. One gentleman actually tucked 40 bucks behind my driver's door handle while I was busy rolling up my tow strap and not looking, after I insisted he didn't pay me. He had already driven off by the time I found it.

I guess the can of spraypaint was probably around $2.49. Money Well spent.

 

[peneumbra]

A. Beer.

 

[Ducky's Dad]

Small zippered hard-shell camera/cellphone cases from the 99 Cent Store. Perfect size for a multitool with driver bits, folding knife, small flashlight, nitrile gloves, band-aids, spare batteries, air line fittings, etc. I use several to keep track of the small stuff, and I hang one on a carabiner inside the shell so that there is always a multitool, knife and light within reach with no looking required.

 

[rayra]

Tiny rechargeable cig-lighter socket mini flashlight, 30 lumen, 3 modes, direct from China. The shipping cost $2.49, the light was cheaper. Several weeks in and it is working real nice. Hasn't burned my Sub to the ground yet.

That's it on the left, smaller than a 'C' battery -

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008AUKS8Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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eta I love that hook. Belongs in a demolition derby on a car named 'The Disemboweler'

 

[v_man]

welded a bottle opener on the bumper , very important mod ...

 

[Yarjammer]

A gallon of gas a week ago?

In all seriousness, I don't think I've had any mods except for deletions that meet this threshold yet. Under $50 and still shadetree would be a huge list.

 

[1911]

Two scrap pieces of C-channel and a hack saw, and I moved my driver's seat back 2+" and up 3/4", a major improvement in comfort for driving an FJ40, if you're over 6' tall.

 

[rexwang]

Brake proportioning valve relocation bracket - for use with a rear lift

i just bought a hunk of metal from home depot (its called a "nail-stop", just basically 16ga galvanized steel) that
cost 40 cents, then a couple nuts and bolts. i used my snips to give it a shape and drilled some holes.

i dont remember what the entire thing cost me, might have broke the 2.49 mark but likely not 3 bucks.