The game-changing adventure van upgrade that was worth the wait. 

this isn't just another boring a** box

If there's one thing you should know about Van Compass, it's that we don't build parts just to fill out our catalog. Every product that leaves our shop in North Idaho exists because we believed we could do it better than what's already out there — meaningfully better, not just packaged differently.

 

And if we couldn't? We didn't build it.

 

Which is exactly why, until now, we've never touched rear door storage.

 

It's not that we didn't see it. Anyone who's spent time building a van knows the rear doors are prime real estate — big, strong, flat, and right where you're loading and unloading gear. Everyone and their mother figured that out years ago — and it's been full of boxes ever since. For our engineering team, that was actually the root of the problem. Building another box, just to say we could build one too? Well, that wasn't very challenging. And let's face it, the way most of the industry is "building" boxes these days, it didn't seem like a space even worth entertaining. 

 

And then one day, during some casual shop talk, our team started throwing around some ideas. Really cool ideas. And that got our wheels turning — if nobody else is making van storage that actually solves the problems we were all dealing with, well, it looked like it was up to us to build something.

 

The OutBack™ Rear Door System is that something. Not just another box. An entire system, designed with you and your adventures in mind.

the Big Box: 13+ cu ft of insanely usable space

First things first — our BIG Box is literally the biggest box you can realistically run on a van door. It's also packed with features nobody else has been bold enough to incorporate. 

 

From day one, it was engineered as a complete ecosystem for both Sprinter and Transit owners — the latter of whom have been underserved in this category for years. Well, not anymore — the boxes are universal across both vans. Only the brackets are van- and door-specific. 

 

That said, you're gonna want to make sure you're running the 180° door hinges; if you've got the 270° hinges, you're outta luck. 

 

With roughly 13.5 cubic feet of volume, and an interior built around the Milwaukee PackOut system — the storage ecosystem already living in overland rigs and service trucks everywhere. Snap in what you own. Two shallow shelves and a full-depth shelf keep everything flat and in reach.

a Lil' Box — with a ton of features

Essentially, the lower third of the Big Box — with every feature intact. High-quality paddle latches, both side access doors, the same drain panel system, gasketed and weather-tight throughout.

 

And one trick of its own: drop the face and stays hold it flat, turning the open door into a shelf. Camp lunch prep. Trail-fix workbench. Peanut butter and jelly station. Your call.

a real deal, heavy-duty Wheel Mount

Look at the heavy-duty truck and rock-crawler world, and you'll see how off-road enthusiasts carry a spare: lugged studs mounting through the wheel's actual mounting flange — the same way the wheel mounts to your vehicle.

 

That's how we built ours. No Acme thread. No wing nut. No compromise. It's sturdier than anything else on the market, and it puts your full-size spare where you can actually reach it — not buried under the chassis. 

the Utility Panel you've been dreaming of

A precision-slotted aluminum utility panel that forms the mounting layer for the Big Box, Lil' Box, and Wheel Mount — cut to the geometry of each factory door, driver and passenger, bolted straight to the Frame-Less Carrier Brackets.

 

The slots run throughout. Traction boards, tools, hardware, lighting — whatever your rig carries, there's a way to mount it. This is the surface the whole system builds around.

a Door Mount engineered to carry the load

Now, tucked neatly behind all this incredible utility is the part you'll barely notice — and that's by design.

 

Instead of a bulky exoskeleton wrapping the back of your van, our Frame-Less Door Carrier Brackets are precision-cut 1/4" aluminum, powder-coated, and so low-profile they all but disappear behind the storage they carry. Each bracket ties into the factory door at four mounting points — spreading the load across the door structure instead of concentrating it into a couple of stressed holes the way every other bracket system does.

 

The details got the same obsession: passenger-side brackets include a paddle extension, so your factory door handle stays fully usable behind the box. Small thing. The kind of small thing that tells you exactly how the whole system was engineered.

 

designed, built, and shipped from North Idaho

A precision-slotted aluminum utility panel that forms the mounting layer for the Big Box, Lil' Box, and Wheel Mount — cut to the geometry of each factory door, driver and passenger, bolted straight to the Frame-Less Carrier Brackets.

 

The slots run throughout. Traction boards, tools, hardware, lighting — whatever your rig carries, there's a way to mount it. This is the surface the whole system builds around.

 

We could have entered this market years ago with a box that looked like everyone else's. We didn't — because that's not how we work.

 

The OutBack™ is a modular rear-door platform that adapts to how you actually use your van. One box for the weekends. The full nine-piece system for a rig that works as hard Monday as it plays Saturday. Reconfigure it when your mission changes, because it will.

 

A box is a box. This is something more. Way more.

 

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