how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot Patriot channel in
this video we're going to be looking at a console safe for your F-150 or 250. [Music]
all right guys now there are several console safes on the market for your vehicles especially F-150s
and 250s Ford even offers one as an option when you purchase your F250 but the problem I found
with most console safes is they take up the entire center console and it makes your center console
basically unusable for anything that you don't have locked inside the safe what's cool about
the one we're talking about today is that it only takes up half of your center consoles so you can
still get in and use the other half of your save for regular items that you want to store in there
your console tray that comes in your F-150s and 250s is also going to fit into this open
cavity so you still have the functionality of your center console while being able to lock up other
important items like money or Pew pews or anything like that so let's get over to the tabletop we're
going to take a quick look at this then we'll get it installed and we'll talk a little more about
it but first guys if you haven't done it yet make sure you hit that subscribe button button
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is another video in our truck accessory series if you haven't seen our other videos in this series I
will link to that in the description below alright guys let's get in here and take a closer look at
this console safe again what I really love about this one is that it only takes up half of your
console so you still have the rest of your console here to put your regular items that you like to
put in there and that's different than most of your center console safes on the market that
take up the entire console and basically make it unusable for anything other than the stuff that
you're planning to lock up inside now I will link to this one in the description below if you want
to get it for yourself this specific one is made for the F-150 and F250 and I'm not even going to
try to pronounce the brand I'm to be honest I'm pretty sure this is probably made in China it
comes from the h-e-c-a-s-a store on Amazon with that said though it does seem to be really good
quality it's a nice thick heavy 12 gauge steel so you can see how thick this is and it's really
very heavy it has a black powder coat finish and you can see here that it does have a combination
lock it's also going to be able to open it with a key as well so what you do is you put in your
combination you turn this knob and then she opens right up and just to show you the lock real quick
you'll see this nice large locking plate here this is also 12 gauge steel so it's pretty substantial
and it's going to make it very difficult to get into you guys know I have reviewed a lot
of safes in the past and the comments always say something like well you can get into that with a
cutting wheel easy or I could pick that lock well you know obviously if you run into a professional
or somebody with heavy duty power tools yeah they probably can get into this but it's going to take
them a lot of time and time is something that most Smash and grab car robberies don't have
these are people that are going to smash your window and grab whatever they see and book
it and so a product like this is really going to help keep whatever you put in it very safe
you can see here on the bottom it has four bolt holes here on the bottom that's what's going to
bolt through your center console it also comes with this bottom base plate here this is going
to mount underneath your center console and these two pieces are going to bolt together locking it
in place so what you're going to get with this is your center console safe your bottom base plate
you're going to get plenty of hardware a set of two keys a rubber mat to fit down in the bottom
of it and then your instructions but yeah guys it seems very good quality I love the features
of it and as long as it fits in like it should I see no problems with it so let's get this bad
boy installed and we'll show you a little bit more about it all right guys because of the
way this thing mounts the first thing we're going to need to do is partially disassemble
our center console so we're going to come around to the back seat and we're going to lift up those
cup holders out of the center console those are just held in with some clips once you get that
out that's going to expose two hex head screws that you need to take out then we're going to
disconnect those electrical connectors from the inside there's also a bolt on both sides of the
console near the back that you're going to need to take out so you can lift up on it to get your
bottom plate slid underneath there and we're able to pull the whole face of the console off [Music]
and once we've got all that done we're going to go back around to the front seat and we're going
to drop the safe down into the console it took a little bit of persuasion but it did fit in there
just fine now we're going to take our drill and drill through the mounting holes in the bottom
of the safe and through the bottom of the console the instructions recommend using a quarter inch
bit to start with and then moving up to a 3 8 inch bit now we need to slide our bottom plate
in underneath the console from the back it helps to use some type of prying tool to lift up on the
back of the console so you can easily slide that plate in once you have the plate slid into place
you want to line it up so that you can drop your bolts down in and tighten them up [Music]
and that's it your console safe is installed and secure [Music]
now I did have a little bit of trouble dropping my tray back into the console beside the safe it
didn't quite fit so I had to take a file and file away at it just a little bit to get it to drop
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never know when you might have to defend yourself or your loved ones all right guys now that we got
our console safe installed now we're going to talk about how we're going to mount our tools
inside here and by tools we're talking about Pew pews you guys can probably tell I'm trying
my best to make sure YouTube does not demonetize this video but the way we're going to do this is
I'm going to line the inside wall of the safe here with some hook velcro and what I have
is a holster Mount from sticky holsters it has Loop Velcro on the back of it and it's designed
so that you can just slip any holster into this little pouch here now since I'm subject
to carry a lot of different guns I'm going with just your generic Universal style nylon holster
these are great for this kind of application because you can fit pretty much any gun into
it it also has a spot for a spare magazine which is cool so the way we're going to do this is I'm
going to drop the holster down in the clip is going to go over the side just to help make sure
that the holster stays in okay and then we're just going to slap the whole thing into that
velcro on the side and that's going to hold it in place I've actually carried this way for a long
time even without the safe so I know it's going to work so let's go ahead and do that [Music]
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then we can just take the loops out of our holster [Music] secure it to that velcro
that sticks on there pretty good and then we just drop our PPU in and we are good to go
I have quick and easy access and it's right there
now the great thing about doing it this way is it is adjustable
so I feel like that's a little bit too far back
all I have to do is loosen that velcro and shift The holster forward and reattach it
good to go
and she's locked up nice and tight now the door of it is still gonna
wiggle just a little bit but it's definitely
it's not going to come up it's going to be very difficult to pry up so I think we're good to go
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all right guys so just a few things about the install it fits in here perfectly the
only issues I had it did take me a little while to get that bottom plate lined up perfectly so I
can get those bolts in and like you guys saw in my stock tray that goes into the console didn't
quite fit in there so I did have to file away at it just a little bit that was really just a mild
inconvenience it fits in there perfectly now after a little bit of adjustment so no big issues there
all right guys that's it for our center console vehicle safe like I said earlier guys there are a
lot of console safes on the market but this one is the first one that I've ever seen that I was happy
with I love the features of this thing I love that it only takes up half of your console so you still
have access to the rest of your storage I love that It Bolts all the way underneath the console
so there's no way you could rip this thing out of here and I'm just really happy with it so I will
link to this safe in the description below if you want to get it for yourself make sure you check
that out if you guys have any questions make sure you let us know in the comments section and if you
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