Enter Drop Stop , currently a best-selling product on Amazon in the Automotive Seat Cover category. More popularly known for its debut on the TV show "Shark Tank," this car seat gap filler promises to solve all your cleanup worries by making the crack through which random items usually fall through completely non-existent. Priced at $25 at the time of writing, highly rated at 4.6 out of 5 stars with over 66,000 customer reviews, I wondered if this thing warranted all the online praise. With an upcoming five-hour road trip, I knew the perfect time to give it a whirl was now.
To really enhance the veracity of my hands-on testing, I first wanted to create a realistic mental image of what the state of cleanliness our minivan is usually in as well as our level of need for the accessory. All the items I mentioned earlier — including a stray Taco Bell sauce packet that's been there for who knows how long — were things I actually found underneath the driver and passenger seats when I did a pre-road trip cleaning. When I told my husband I would be testing the Drop Stop, he was very excited as he's prone to drop his mobile phone through the seat gap, usually at the most inopportune time when he needs to use Google Maps for directions while in motion. This made the Drop Stop even more promising.
Even though the Drop Stop seemed pretty self-explanatory and easy to situate, I checked to see if it came with a user manual. Not only did it have easy-to-understand installation instructions that had step-by-step visuals, it also included a YouTube code that led to a brief "pro installation tips" tutorial, which I played and appreciated.
Like the video and paper instructions suggested, I leaned the passenger seat all the way back and proceeded to install the first gap filler on the opposite (driver) side. It was very easy to do. Contrary to my initial impression, it wasn't too thin. It sufficiently sealed the gap as far as I could tell.
I then got my husband involved and asked him to place the gap filler on my side by sitting in the driver's seat. He, too, did it in a jiffy and without hardship. However, because the minivan's passenger seat had this hunk of plastic right underneath the seat belt catch, the end bit of the gap filler weirdly hung. I couldn't quite push it all the way down to below the catch.
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