If you have cloth bags that press to the very bottom, I'd put them in plastic if you'll be hitting heavy rain (and ours was VERY heavy, and at 70 mph driving speed). During the worst rain, we did have dampness and some droplets of water at the bottom front inside, but the gear was sitting up on ridges and was fine - bag in front was damp but not wet. Performance: Pretty good! We drove 2300 miles with this unit, of which about 300 were in driving rain. Covering with tape might help keep spray out.
There are several holes in each sequence, and you only use two out of 4 or 5 the others are exposed. One thing I added while doing the installation was to put duct tape over the inside holes for the U-brackets. The package includes 4 U-brackets which attach to your roof racks and are held inside by hand-swivel bolts (whatever they're called). (We have a Pontiac Aztek.) THERE IS NO NEED TO BUY ADDITIONAL BRACKETS, though when viewing ads for this, you might think so at first glance. Installation: Dead easy on the factory roof rack. If you do this alone, you need to brace it well at an angle as you hook the top and bottom together. Still, it went OK, about 20 minutes for me to do, far better than a Thule roof racks I installed some years back, where I was dealing with bent and missing parts. It's a bit hairy for one person to get it right, since you have to match the hinges with the sides of the "clam shell", and their fit doesn't seem quite right until you tighten them up well. It took two of us, me and my 2 year old! Seriously. It seems to be engineered to be as light as possible, which it is, and that can be unnerving until you get it fastened down and locked closed.Īssembly: It's awkward. It does seem flimsy when you're assembling it, and it even seems that way when it's open on top of the car. I bought this with some skepticism, having read other reviews that gave it low marks, and also having bought Thule products in the past and cursed them as I tried assembling and installing them, what with missing pieces and the like.
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