How many bales of hay can you fit in a fiat 500?

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Serious question sadly 🤣
Local hay suppliers have either run out or refusing to do drops for anything less than 20 which I don't have the space to store.
Back seats down and passenger seat forward I reckon I can fit 1, possibly 2 but has anyone actually attempted and can answer my current burning question 🤔
 
You might be better to get some big plastic sacks (like Dengie hi fi). Split each bale into 2 or 3 depending on size and squish into the bags. Less messy, and you may be able to squash more in.
 
If my memory serves me correctly, I managed to fit 5 bales into my old Seat Ibiza.

My (now) DH bought it for me brand new years ago. The guy in the showroom laughed when we started debating how many bales we could potentially fit in it. The poor guy's face visibly dropped when we told him no, it wasn't a joke, and we were actually deadly serious...😂 😁
 
I have no idea how many bales we fitted in my 1959 Mini. They were in the back, in the boot ( tied in) and on the roof. I believe I had some on my lap too. We didn't go far but it was in the late 1960's and no one cared.
About the same time we fitted enough SACKS of hard feed, oats, barley etc, into the Mini to last 2 ponies the whole winter.
 
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I could get four in a Citroen Ax. I think it depends how square the back is and how high up the wheel arch goes. Modern Landrover have less bale space than the old ones.
 
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The consequences of over estimating (not with hay but with cupboards!)

Also for the LOVE OF GOD put a tarp down & probably duct tape it in place… my car boot was never the same again after I put straw in. (Or use hay bags or something)

I used to manage 6 20kg wrapped & compressed bales of Cravenbale haylage in the car pictured below… 1 of them may have been on the passenger seat though!

I’d guess maybe around 3-4 average sized bales may be your max (& you may need to tie the boot shut) as I seem to think the 500 has less space in the back than an UP?
 
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The before photo to the above… would have been fine if I’d just strapped the boot shut rather than trying to force it to close properly

Vs what it could do when I was being more sensible!

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Good luck. No family members with bigger vehicles or trailers? Only two in my Toyota auris. Was t prepared to use front seat. Did use builders hippo bags for ‘crumbs’
 
I'm gonna go for an extremely optimistic four - one on front seat strapped in on its shorter end, two on back seats on top of each other, one in boot?

Friend and I were talking about this earlier - why boots should never be measured in litres, and instead useful examples of volume. 'You can fit four cases of wine, four hay bales, and a small child in this boot' type.
 
Split bales in theee or four and shove into bin liners. Place in seat footwells as well as on seats and in the boot.get a roof rack fitted. You might get four up there, two over two.
 
Is there absolutely nowhere you can store 20? Do you have a garden? If so palettes on the lawn or patio,bales on top, throw a tarp over.fetching a couple of bales at a time could use a lot of petrol and prove costly.
 
teapot said:
I'm gonna go for an extremely optimistic four - one on front seat strapped in on its shorter end, two on back seats on top of each other, one in boot?

Friend and I were talking about this earlier - why boots should never be measured in litres, and instead useful examples of volume. 'You can fit four cases of wine, four hay bales, and a small child in this boot' type.
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If you leave the child behind I feel another case or wine or two (depending on said child’s age) would be far more useful.
 
I like the thinking re boot capacity!

Any boot that will take an upright 25l water container without dropping the back seats or removing the parcel shelf is a good boot.

I am currently in the situation of having a very nice boot in my new car (with seats that fold FLAT baby!) but being utterly unable to fill it with horse crap as it’s a lease car and shall eventually have to go back (in about 4 years!). I am still very impressed with the amount of relatively clean horse stuff I can fill it with without dropping the back seats though! (The UP lived in a constant state of having the seats down and then having to hastily put them back up whenever I had to put the dog in the back, which in itself involved posting him through the gap between driver & passenger seat!)
 
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