How do you protect fragile trunk “elephant skin” from damage

[JFENG]

I have 93% of the original elephant skin in the trunk of my E9. Recently I put a small cardboard box in the trunk and did some driving. During cornering the box apparently slid about knocking into the sides of the inner wheel housings, cracking off a chunk of the seemingly fragile E-Skin. I was at 97% coverage before this incident.

I’m curious how others protect their E-skin from damage due to moving cargo/luggage.

 

[Thomas76]

Embrace your eagerness to slide about and consider it a trophy!

 

[Stevehose]

I don’t keep anything in my trunk 99% of the time, for road trips I wrap anything hard in towels and pack so it doesn’t shift.

 

[HB Chris]

I put some very thin solid foam on the wheel wells lower parts and put duct tape over any cracks on the underside

 

[Cornishman]

Take it out and call it a CSL!

 

[Mal CSL 3.0]

Take it out and call it a CSL!

Unless you have one of 500 city packs that had the elephant skin.

 

[JFENG]

Previous owner put a couple screws thru an adjustable strap at the forward part of the trunk. Since the holes were already there, I swapped in some D-rings and an adjustable compression strap.

It’s is enough to secure a small to medium sized object ( box, bin, etc.).

 

[pickman]

When I rebuilt my skins I used fiberglass gel coat on the metal side of the skins to toughen them up works well.