I, with no woodworking experience... Just made this platform for my CRV. I am over the moon about what I've accomplished and how clean it looks. I actually think it may have instilled a genuine interest in carpentry in me. I hope to encourage you to produce more CRV and car camping related projects in the future. I'm going to try to tackle the shelf next. Thank you. Really, really thank you for how accessible you made this.

Rub a candle on the bottom of the drawer where it rubs on the wooden rails. The wax applied this way will make the drawer slide more smoothly and easily.

Fellow industrial designer here! I don’t plan on using my car as living space, so there’s no practical reason for me to watch. But I have watched every single video just for the amazing entertainment and have got to say that you’re a gem to this community! Ur Chanel is going to blow up! Amazingly simple and useful designs!

Unarguably The Best Of All The Builds on the web🙏🏼

Incredible work, Matt! I have been telling everyone about how incredible this video is.. your design is incredible, instruction concise, video editing and humor on point. I’ve never enjoyed a video this much. Keep going and wish me luck on my build!

Absolutely the best❤

This has to be one of the most useful KZfaq videos I have EVER come across

I love how you always find a way to use those tiny screws, it's brilliant, it's like your signature, I have never seen anyone on KZfaq use these in the way that you do, great video!

This and your Version 1.0 unit, are two of the smartest SUV camping conversion designs I've seen to date. The fact that the sections nest together and fit in the cargo area behind the rear seats, is just brilliant. I really feel like one could startup a biz making these awesome designs to order for a variety of today's popular SUVs, like the Weathertech of SUV camping conversion! This is a burgeoning market, a startup doing these could clean up if done right. In fact it's only a matter of time before makers like Subaru, that are all about the outdoor experience, to start offering their own over-priced versions.

Wow! No hinges or anything. What a brilliant little system. So simple so brilliant.

I cannot thank you enough for your videos! This is exactly what I was trying to achieve with no woodworking experience and a dream. LOL. I appreciate the depth of explanation for everything, your thought process, and how you joined your pieces together. You're my hero!

Really good work! I will steal this idea for my Tesla Model S :-)

This is so simple, yet very effective. Thanks for sharing the details of the build!

Exactly what I was looking to build for my Equinox. Great design! Thanks!

HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE MOST HIGH QUALITY CAR CAMPER CONTENT.

I’m so chuffed to have found your channel! I’ve been considering SUV RVing and want a single bed that is semi-permanent but don’t want to remove the back seats. Your design is perfect, and I will modify for a single! Thank you 😊

This is the only collapsible floor platform that I found. Thank you for the amazing video

Excellent build! Thank you for sharing! Enjoy! 🙂👍🚙🏜

Super job on the project and your presentation!

I just watched the first bed build and this one back to back. Love your presentation style and ideas. I'm definitely applying this idea to my Tahoe build, albeit with slightly larger dimensions for obvious reasons, haha. You've got a new subscriber in me.

Wow, we are usually in tent camping, but my wife sometimes scared of raccoons during nights in the state parks. Looking forward to install that kind in our cx5. Love your design and thank you for sharing it.

I LOVE your videos! So helpful! Great ideas, informative, funny, not over the top, interesting and useful. Thank you! Looking forward to your next video

The build cant get any easier and better than this 🙂 Best explained

Very good descriptions, thank you! Special thanks for the correlation of this design to the user’s height. And for the nice second user`s picture 🙂

The best platform I have ever seen so far! You are a hero

First time viewer. I really enjoyed your sense of humor and thorough instructions and visuals. Neat little tool for angling the screws and yes who doesn’t have a drawerful of those little Allen wrenches that you can’t remember what they go to.

Sensible and adaptable design! 10/10 marks!

I just got a CRV and am 100% building this for lots of car camping this summer!

Which ideas I’ll use will be to pick up some cheap dresser at goodwill to use for lumber to get that beautiful cheesy wood look. Kidding aside, I think you did a great job and made it look easy.

Thank you!! I’ve never done any woodworking. Used your PDF plans and video to make this platform for my Mini Cooper Countryman.

This video is excellent. It demonstrates everything clearly. The pace is just right. The hack for levelling the base is easy and quick. Thank you. Subscribed!

Awesome build, love it, watching from Now Zealand ❤

I've looked at a lot of SUV builds and your platform is by far the best I've seen. Simple & practical. Being 6'4" I would need to take out my passenger seat so will probably keep sleeping in a tent or under a tarp. But the build is certainly a functional way to provide storage for not only camping but anything else. Good job.

Truly genius & super well done video!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Very good. Thank you for sharing some great and simple ideas. The 3D additions are great help as well. Subscribed.

Matt, hi. Good work, clear directions and great sense of humor, loved it! I followed it this weekend to modify my Toyota Sienna AWD 2012 model, it worked. I struggled with Pocket Hole a bit, eventually caught up. I have watched your 1.0 work, yes, I like the 2.0 better with built in drawer. You have come with up a very rounded, portable, neat looking, sturdy design, very much appreciated the work. For my Sienna the major difference it is tilted backward with the back seats folded down and middle seats removed. I like the fact that I can move the entire unit to the middle while driving with back seat up, but fold the back seat and move it to the back to set up the bed. Thanks a ton!

Awesome build ! Going to make something like this for my Subaru forester wilderness, thanks for your great info & build ideas 🤙🏼

Pretty slick! Thanks for sharing.

Great share Matt, I like the improvements you made to version 2. This will work well in my SUV.

Wow - that's a beautiful design! Thank you for sharing - given me some really cool ideas for my own upcoming project.

Put some wax on the slider rails, and it will move easier. Great design.

THANK. YOU. SIR. Lolol. Seriously though. I have been planning to build out my Outback all year and am conducting the final research when I stumbled upon your videos. I had so many saved to try and figure out a rig but you sir, have officially made me scrap them all because this is all I need. So again, THANK YOU AND GOOD DAY 👋🏻

Genius! Love this simple and affordable design. Thank you so much for sharing. Love your channel! Keep up the great work. Oh, and thanks for the build file.

Great job yet again! Loving your vids. Keep it up!

Thank you for sharing and being so generous.

1st time viewer also. Thank you so much for showing how great this works. I dream of traveling so this is a great start to make my SUV work for me. With easily accessible storage. Plus measurements & instructions etc. You’re awesome 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼

Matt. Sweet and simple set up. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! Can't wait to build this for my Alltrack!

Dude! This video was awesome! Hands down the best video I've seen on the subject yet! You made this so clear and easy to follow. Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!

Greetings! Another shout out for this collapsible platform bed design! I got your spec sheets and after spending many brainstorming sessions to sit in the back of my blue 2020 Subaru Forester Limited (named Miss Groverlander, because “around around, over, under, through!”) making my neighbors question my sanity and wonder what I was up to - taking all the measurements. Then, watching your video for the 8 billionth time. I kind of did a mix of both your versions. Made the platform and drawer very similar to your design. My seats collapse differently than yours so I still needed that third short section to make my length the size of a exped mattress that I already own - full 72” long (with the seats forward just a smidge) I used the lip at the back of the main platform to rest the short piece. Made slide out brackets that are cut to the weird bits where the seats fold, and the larger sliding platform piece is farthest front and rests on the the end of the extended brackets. Putting the short section in the middle instead of hinged at the head like your first design. I wanted the larger piece up front to yield the weight of the torso(s). I also have a 2x4 for extra support that stores in the perfect gap between the back of the platform and the in use seats, but lays in the area of the 2” gap somewhere - kind of floats to where the support may be needed? We will see how that executes… I used 1/4” thickness for my drawer bottom and the extra for table toppers, so now I’m at the finishing touches stage!

That is amazing! I hope to have a similar setup in my vehicle one day. If only I had all the tools and skills like you!! Either way, nice work!!

Well Done Lots of thought put into the design If I ever need to build a platform - I'll certainly use aspect of yours... Pocket Screws Rock

Thank you for being so generous!

Your Vids are just simply awesome, simple, inspiring.... I can go on and on. Thank You SO Much....!

Loving these videos!

I don't think I'm wanting this little headroom necesarily but this was very satisfying craftsmanship to watch!😊 Strongly considering a Chevy Suburban cause they're huge.

Brilliant idea 👏thanks for sharing 😊

Thank you. This is so easy to follow.

Came out beautiful!

ok, I did glorified your camper bed 1.0 but this is a masterpiece. Thanks again!

Thanks for your video, I am just starting my build on my suv

This is pure engineering perfection.

Awesome video! Love this design and I’m going to attempt making one of these platforms for my Telluride.

Very nicely done, and your generosity in sharing the model is really above & beyond. Good karma should be on its way to you assuming of course it didn’t already arrive (this is a year late afterall).

Wow. Rad build bud. 🏆🏆🏆

Looks really good. Recently got myself a FJ and thinking about just chilling and camping in it with a roof top tent.

I’m going to build this. Thanks for the video, I’m going to add a few other things that I’ll use myself but I like the design. Only other thing I would say is storage for your mattress when it is not being used! Honestly this is good stuff

This is awesome! Thanks Matt, my brother in law made this for my 2006 CRV in Australia and looking forward to going on some camping trips up and down the East Coast this Winter!!

that is so cool - I just got a Honda stream so I'll have to adapt the measurements but I've been trying to find a base design that can just stay in the boot and this is perfect!

This was excellent and fun! Safe Travels!

Cool platform bed👋

Hey Matt, Just wanted to thank you for this. I just finished building the platform for my CRV 2015 - for now without the drawers but it is just amazing. It is my first DIY project and I am really happy about it. Going on a roadtrip on Monday. We are based in Paris, France so you have your platform design globally now. :) happy to share some images somewhere if you would like to! Really grateful, so thank you. Tamas and Lilla

Gonna use ALL of these for my RAV4 💖🥰

Thanks for sharing!!

I would love to have this for my 2021 4 Door Bronco. Very nice!

your channel is so underrated Matt! keep up the great work 👊🏽

Wow... I have watched so many similar videos (many of which are great), and I'm about to write what many people say in comments, but this truly is amazing! The design quality, simplicity and functionality, low profile (as well as looks) is next level. I imagine you just leave it in the car as it doesn't get in the way at all, which is game changing too, as it's far less hassle than removing it each time and doesn't need to be stored in the house. I actually just watched your original design first, which was so clever also, but this one is perfection. The only thing I might change is raising it a bit overall so I can extend the head rest like your last one as I'm even taller than you. Thanks so much :)

Very nice! I like this even better than your first model, this one being more functional. If you put the pocket holes on the inside you wouldn't see them or need to plug them. Foam cuts really easy with a cheap double blade electric knife.

A great build for a platform, if you decide you really need one, but think long and hard about your needs before you do build one. The biggest reason for one, would be if your vehicle does not have a flat floor. I built a similar platform for a previous vehicle and found far more drawbacks than advantages. My under platform drawer was only 5 inches deep and was pretty useless for storing anything, especially typical equipment for camping. Raising the floor level raises the level to access the sleeping platform (including mattress height) for climbing in and out and the loss of ceiling height was horrible for sleeping and for storage during travel. If your camping with your partner, the space certainly isn't a comfortable love nest. When we graduated to a Lincoln Navagator L SUV (same as the Ford Expedition) we invested in a 10' X 10' SUV tent that connects directly to the vehicle. All camp equipment is stored and transported in three large plastic bins with lids. At camp, the bins are removed from the vehicle and stored in the tent section or just outside the tent, the second and third row seats of the vehicle are lowered and a double-single high air mattress is inflated for comfortable sleeping inside the vehicle.

Definitely gotta make something like this! 👍 👍

I like the collaps-ability of it, also the drawer. I'm going to see your other vids, to find out how those Allen wrenches work, and where they go. I'll likely use quite a bit of your ingenuity, but build it for a single. I want to build a cabinet on the other side.

Really smart idea!!!

This is a damn good build

This weekend I build the same bed ver 1.0. And then you are release this one 😂

i will make this, thanks bro

Thank you. I have a Chrysler Pacifica and with some adjustments I believe you idea will be perfect.

Nice design. I like the strap pulls to lift the sliding part of the platform. I'm 6'0", but a side sleeper. I know this is going to be a tight squeeze for me, as I also have camping gear, camera gear and computer gear that goes with me, in addition to my clothes, etc. But, I'm hoping this will make my multi-week photography trips a little more comfortable. (I'm getting to old to sleep on the ground for multiple nights in a row.) Thanks for the links, especially to the mattress.

and again, great job!

Good job I learned a lot from you video

This a lot better your so smart ! I think I would love this way better please

Impressive work!! Liked and commented for the algorithm!

Beautiful

very cool

I did a similar thing to you but I welded up, a small removable frame up to stand in the rear footwell on my XJ Jeep Cherokee. This was my pillow or head position, I also moved the front passenger seat fully forward. I just slept directly on the floor as the Jeep floor is very flat. The platform in the rear well gave me over 6ft.

Awesome! Thank you!

This is amazing. I have a 2018 Nissan Kicks that I want to do this with. I road trip regularly with my fiance and we have an inflatable mattress to use, but need a more sturdy and level base to set it up on. This would be perfect for that.

This gives me some ideas…not too ghetto, but not overly fancy. I can work with this.

Well done Nuno Portugal Best Regards

Ugh this is so amazing.

Best platform I’ve seen yet. You should start a business building these. I’ll be your first customer. I love that you didn’t make it too tall. What SUV is this? I have a 4Runner.