WONDER WEDGE: Whatever the variations in front seat car consoles, they all come with one common curse — the deep diabolical crevice between them and the front seats. Too narrow for most fingers to fully penetrate, but plenty wide for keys, credit cards, cash, jewelry, food, toll tickets and just about anything else you don’t want to go there, that gap is a kind of “car-muda” triangle that seems to suck down indiscriminately both essential and expendable objects, some of them forever. The good news is that there’s a cure for those cracks. And behold, this modern-day miracle turns out to be a neoprene-encased wedge of flexible foam rubber that squishes into the gap, filling and blocking it. Our hero’s name is Drop Stop, and it’s not just a blob of filler, it’s a blob of filler with a slot at one end that slides snuggly over and around the seat belt catch, anchoring the wedge in place and allowing it to slide back and forth with the seat. The wedges, in basic black and designed to fit most vehicles, come in pairs — one for the driver’s side of the console, one for the passenger’s side. What falls on Drop Stop stays on Drop Stop — unless it slides forward onto the front floor where there’s nowhere to hide. I find this especially reassuring in a rental car and would pack a pair for a fly-and-drive vacation.
Drop Stop Seat Gap Fillers are $19.99 per pair at .
