As I am planning to take a road trip in a few weeks (which will involve sleeping in the car for a few nights) I decided to go ahead and buy the official VW variable height boot floor for £167.17. The parts arrived on Tuesday, and while they offered to install it for an additional £180 I decided to forego that cost and install it myself. For reference, I am not what you would consider a "handy" man, so I generally prefer to pay a professional to do any car-related work. But it looked relatively easy to do, and £180 is a lot, so I did it myself this morning.
I was going to take pictures of the process, but to be honest, they are not needed. Installing the variable height boot floor is an incredibly easy and quick process. It only took me an hour to do it, so I cannot fathom why VW was going to charge three hours labour for what would likely take them 20 minutes or less...
In the ID.4 literally every bit of carpet you need to cut for this process has already been pre-perforated. Once you line the rails up you should easily see the "tabs" you need to cut out, which you can to with a hobby knife (or even clippers since they are pre-perforated). In total you need to cut out 10 bits of carpet (5 per side) - three holes for the screws, one thin section maybe 3" below the boot door, and then you need to trim the length of the carpet back to front a bit. And again, all ten sections are pre-perforated so it is almost impossible to screw this up. Once you cut the carpets, the rails are easy to mount using the provided screws, and that it is. You are done:
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Some more pictures for reference:
With variable height boot floor on lower level:
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With variable boot floor removed:
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With stuff in:
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With a full single air mattress (I didn't even have to move the passenger seat forward from its normal position!):
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I was going to take pictures of the process, but to be honest, they are not needed. Installing the variable height boot floor is an incredibly easy and quick process. It only took me an hour to do it, so I cannot fathom why VW was going to charge three hours labour for what would likely take them 20 minutes or less...
In the ID.4 literally every bit of carpet you need to cut for this process has already been pre-perforated. Once you line the rails up you should easily see the "tabs" you need to cut out, which you can to with a hobby knife (or even clippers since they are pre-perforated). In total you need to cut out 10 bits of carpet (5 per side) - three holes for the screws, one thin section maybe 3" below the boot door, and then you need to trim the length of the carpet back to front a bit. And again, all ten sections are pre-perforated so it is almost impossible to screw this up. Once you cut the carpets, the rails are easy to mount using the provided screws, and that it is. You are done:
Some more pictures for reference:
With variable height boot floor on lower level:
With variable boot floor removed:
With stuff in:
With a full single air mattress (I didn't even have to move the passenger seat forward from its normal position!):
