What is this?

What are these large holes on each side of my bed?

 

This is one of the few questions that even TacomaWorld can't answer. I keep my HiLift Liftmate in one of them.

 

What do you mean "what are they"?? They're storage pockets. I'd rather have them than not, doensn't hurt anything.....

 

Not sure what you can really store in them. Seems to me everything would fall out without some sort of closure.

 

I keep rags in there that i use to protect my bike when i tie it down, they haven't come out. Easy to grab while holding the bike in place. I'm a bit of a storage freak so if there's an area that storage could exist, im glad it does!

 

It reminds me of the useless open slot in my dishwasher. Maybe if you fill it up with detergent before it rains your truck bed will get a spot free wash.

 

I store a lot of little things in there and they never come out. In one side I have a 7-4 pin adapter and the other side I have some bungee strap.

 

Yup, they are storage pockets. I keep whatever my son throws in there when he's playing in the back of the truck. lol

 

With those cubbies being exposed, you're limited to what to put/store in them due to weather, theft, etc. I have a shell, so I use them all the time for canoe tie down straps, extra rope, first aid kit, dog first aid kit, tire repair kit.....pretty much anything in that size range gets put in there.

 

good place for a bed light or a speaker as well

 

OK so they are the official rag storage compartment.

 

I miss them like the desert misses rain....

 

I made these lights to go into mine.

 

This is super ghetto but before I had a bed mat stuff slid around in my bed a lot. I bought a short shower curtain rod and extended it inside of the cubbies to create a kind of bed divider. It worked great for keeping a cooler in place!

Now I have LED pods in them:

 

The engineer who designed these slots was the same engineer that designed the skewwwwp. Rumor is that he's now a high ranking adviser in the White House. Makes sense.

 

I found a lone sock in there once. I did not put it there.

 

I think a designer planned out the skeeeeewwwwwp since it is not functional. I think an engineer would have made it functional. I've heard some people drill through the bottom to give it a function though.

 

Storage pockets for items suck as tie down straps etc.

 

surprised nobody has shared my view yet...

why do these two cubbies not have the little cubby doors like the two closer towards the tail gate??

 

That would be cool and probably pretty easy to make with some spare abs.