Diy Roof Rack

[St Thicket]

[jedi134]

Thats excellent, and will save me a few £`s. I think I will varnish mine to weatherproofit. You`ll put Thule out of business at this rate, LOL!!!!!!!

[igormus]

looking GREAT with good money economy :D

cheers/Igor

[toyboata]

I think you could not only varnish it for extra weatherproofing, but also, round the front edge for extra aerodynamics!

Does this mark the return to wood for car manufacture!

[anchorman]

Well it goes against the "grain" a bit but maybe I'm just "bark"ing up the wrong "tree". Any chance of you knocking up a spare flywheel out of oak or even a wagon wheel for the XTR guys?

[St Thicket]

This Roof Rack was really hilarious. I came over this car last year at a car park. Must be the dumbest idea ever...

[OldSkoO1]

hah -

Lets hope it doesn't detach at high speed on the m6 and impale into someone and cause a nasty accident. Which certainly will not be funny.

:(

[local hero]

Funilly enough i had a builder come round to give me a quote recently, He had 2 lengths of rough 4x2 timber literally bolted to the roof of his Escort van using 4 coachbolts straight thru the timber + the roof of his van, he had then used a line of bathroom sealant to mask the gap between the timber + his van roof..WTF (he didn't get the job)

[St Thicket]

Funilly enough i had a builder come round to give me a quote recently, He had 2 lengths of rough 4x2 timber literally bolted to the roof of his Escort van using 4 coachbolts straight thru the timber + the roof of his van, he had then used a line of bathroom sealant to mask the gap between the timber + his van roof..WTF (he didn't get the job)

I hope for him that he bolted it through the frame of the roof, and not just the sheet metal!

I can however see some benefit by using timber as a Roof Rack. Say you bought a lot of timber for a building project at your house. Then the far easiest way would be to just screw the timber straight onto you timber Roof Rack! No hassle with a cargo strap! Just bing your drill and some long screws!

[toyboata]

Plus - if ever you were cought out in the wilderness...man can make fire with the wood!...or wait long enough for it to turn into crude oil!