The Open Air Kit is Slate's second body kit, listed at $3,950 under Exterior > Style and rated an Advanced install — the second-highest of Slate's four skill tiers. It carried no price at all in our July 6, 2026 catalog capture; Slate posted the $3,950 figure sometime before our August 10 capture. It is a separate body configuration, not an SUV conversion.
How much is the Slate Open Air Kit?
$3,950, rated an Advanced install, listed under Exterior > Style in Slate’s configurator.
| Open Air Kit | |
|---|---|
| Price | $3,950.00 |
| Category | Exterior > Style > Body Kits |
| Install skill | Advanced |
| Fitment notes | Yes — configurator flags compatibility notes |
| Price as of July 6, 2026 | Not published (“Price coming soon”) |
| Price as of August 10, 2026 | $3,950.00 |
That last pair of rows is the reason this page exists. The Open Air Kit was one of exactly two pricing changes Slate made to its entire 209-item accessory catalog between our July 6 and August 10, 2026 captures. It went from no price at all to $3,950 with no announcement — it simply appeared in the configurator. We caught it by diffing the two captures, and the full comparison is in the price database change log.
What is the Open Air Kit?
Honestly: Slate hasn’t said. And we’d rather write that sentence than pad this section with inference dressed up as fact.
Here is the complete set of things Slate publishes about this product: its name, its price, its category, its install rating, and a flag that it carries compatibility notes. There is no description, no parts list, no photograph of a finished vehicle, no statement of what “open air” means on a truck that already has an open bed.
What we can reason about from placement — clearly labelled as reasoning, not spec:
- It sits in Style, next to the body styles. The Blank Slate, Squareback SUV, and Fastback SUV are in that same category. Whatever the Open Air Kit does, Slate files it as a body configuration decision rather than an add-on accessory.
- It’s a “Body Kit,” not a “Body Style.” Body styles are priced as complete vehicles. The Open Air Kit is priced as a $3,950 kit, which implies it’s fitted to a vehicle you’re already buying rather than being a vehicle in itself.
- Advanced install, with fitment notes. Advanced is Slate’s third tier of four. Bumper upgrades and fender flares sit there; wheels and suspension sit above it at Professional. That’s consistent with substantial bolt-on bodywork rather than a trim piece.
[VERIFY Open Air Kit contents, finished configuration, and body-style compatibility against slate.auto]
Open Air Kit vs. the SUV bodies
These are different products and the confusion is costing people real money in their planning. They sit adjacent in the configurator, both say “body,” and one costs eight times the other.
| Open Air Kit | Squareback SUV | Fastback SUV | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Body kit (accessory catalog) | Body style (complete vehicle) | Body style (complete vehicle) |
| Price | $3,950 | $29,950 | $31,950 |
| Cost over The Blank Slate | +$3,950 on top of a truck | +$5,000 | +$7,000 |
| Install rating | Advanced | Factory | Factory |
The SUV bodies enclose the bed into a five-seat cabin — that’s the SUV kit, and since Slate’s store restructure they’re sold as whole vehicles rather than as a separately priced conversion. The Open Air Kit is not that. Whatever it is, at $3,950 it is not a five-seat enclosure.
If you’re choosing between them, the practical advice is short: the SUV bodies are documented and priced, and the Open Air Kit currently isn’t described at all. Don’t order the one you can’t read a description of.
Should you order it with the truck or add it later?
Wait, for now — and this is one of the rare cases where the answer is genuinely “not yet” rather than a preference.
The order-now-or-add-later framework turns on three questions: does it need factory fitment, does the price change, and can you reverse the decision. For the Open Air Kit, the third question is unanswerable because nobody outside Slate knows what the kit does. Committing $3,950 at order time to a product with no published description isn’t a risk calculation, it’s a guess.
The price is now published, which is progress. Once the description follows, this page gets the real answer — including whether it’s compatible with the SUV bodies or truck-only, which the compatibility-notes flag suggests is a live constraint.
What we’re watching
This page updates when any of the following appears: a kit description or parts list, a photograph of a fitted vehicle, a compatibility statement for the Squareback and Fastback bodies, or an install guide. We re-crawl Slate’s configurator and diff it against the prior capture, so a silent change like the one that put a price on this kit gets caught rather than missed. The accessory price database carries every change we log.