indycole
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My concern would be that an automobile accident or trail mishap could very easily make access to rear drawers impossible. Easy example—rear impact and wedged into a vehicle in front. Drawers are not gonna open tailgate is blocked (or damaged shut).
i do have another in back, but wouldn’t want my only extinguisher to be dependent on an intact rear...
That's a good point. Maybe I'll relocate it somewhere more easily accessible.
Just some additional food for thought on these points. In the event that your battery is dead there's no way to open the rear hatch and access your drawers if that's where your tools are kept. One time on a trip I came out to a dead vehicle but it turned out that washboard roads had loosened the connection to the battery. I had to physically put pressure on the terminals with my hands while my wife popped open the hatch. It wouldn't have mattered if the battery was actually dead and then I wouldn't even have had access to the tools I'd need to swap in the aux battery in a pinch.
Moral of the story: leave yourself a multitool or small set accessible without getting into the hatch. Also, don't put your jump starter in the drawers