Will It Trunk

Free checklist

Don't drive out for that Marketplace couch until you can answer these 5 questions.

Five things to check before you burn the gas. The fifth one is the one everybody gets wrong, and it is why people end up standing in a stranger's driveway at 7pm trying to fold a couch into a Civic.

One email with the checklist in it. Unsubscribe whenever you want, no hard feelings.

Hey, I'm Craig. I built Will It Trunk.

It started because my wife found a couch on Facebook Marketplace and asked me a question I could not answer: is that going to fit in the car? I did what everybody does. I looked at the picture, I looked at the car, and I said "yeah, probably."

"Probably" is how you end up 40 minutes away with a couch you cannot take home. The seller is standing there. Your car is right there. And you are doing geometry in a driveway with your hands.

Here is the thing nobody tells you: it is almost never the length that kills you. It is the opening. A trunk is a box you have to get through a smaller hole, and the hole is the number nobody ever measures.

So I wrote down the five questions I now run through before I drive anywhere for anything. It takes about two minutes and it has saved me three wasted trips this year. Put your email in and I will send it to you right now.

What the five questions cover

  • The measurement the listing never gives you, and the one polite way to ask a stranger for it without sounding like you are backing out.
  • How to tell in ten seconds whether the thing comes apart, because a piece that splits in two changes the entire answer.
  • What your back seats actually do, which is not what you think they do, and is worth a foot and a half.
  • The second doorway everybody forgets. Getting it in the car is half the job. Plenty of people win that half and lose in their own hallway.
  • Question five: the trunk opening itself, the number almost nobody has ever measured on their own car, and the one that decides it.

Why am I giving this away?

Straight answer, because you are already wondering. The checklist works on its own. Use it, never talk to me again, and you will still stop wasting trips. That is a real trade and I am fine with it.

But question five is a pain in the ass to do by hand. You have to go outside with a tape measure, open the trunk, and measure a hole that is not a rectangle. So I built an app that already knows that number for 50 cars, and it checks the item against it in about twenty seconds. It is free, and I am betting that once the checklist saves you one trip, you will want the fast version.

That is the whole play. No trick to it.

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