frontera lwb roof bars

[markta]

today,i went to buy a roof rack for my lwb fronty,halfords were around 100 pounds with a fitting kit (god knows why they dont sell them together),thought it was expensive roof rack to carry a few ladders.so i went & brought two 4ft lengths of 1inch box steel,painted it & sercured it using 8 (in all) U clamps (two each corner) onto the lwb roof bars.does the trick perfect infact will probably carry more weight (as most carry 50 kilos),just thought it might be of interest to someone,as if you dont use one that often you can always take it off until the next time 10 min job to fix back on....
8 feet of box steel 10 pounds
8 u clamps 4 pounds

14 pound in total,bargain me thinks (god im sooo tight hehe)

[OLLIE45]

I did exactly the same thing myself except that I used thick walled aluminium box section that I "borrowed" from work. (They can have it back if they ask!!)

Its got nothing to do with being mean, I just get a kick out of making things I want rather than just buying them ( where's the job satisfaction there). After all, if we all did 'credit card engineering', there wouldn't be any need for our forum community would there!

[markta]

thats right ollie why pay silly prices when theres always away round things,& to be honest my new roof rack dont look out of place,infact looks quite good....

[Sir-Doris]

Sounds good to me. Need one of those roof rack things for the spare wheel. I also baulked at paying a 100 quid to Halfords.

[markta]

well if anyone can tell me how to upload a picture on fog,then i will put one on tomorrow.if not & someone needs to see my roof rack then i can send them a pic from me phone (not to many though). if you shop about for steel most lengths of around 8 ft would only cost about a fiver,i never had time to shop about,so a roof rack could be yours for under a tenner,wat wat wat a bargain,something you dont find on ebay these days ha

[Red Oktober]

piccys in your postings ..... see This post (Clicky)

[john (smifffy)]

look here it tells all

http://fronteraowners.co.uk/v-web/bulle ... php?t=5453

[markta]

thanks red & smiffy,cant get me head round that photo bucket lot,i aint that technical,best thing to say is maybe if anyone wants a picky,then i could send it to there phone & they could upload it,i would be messing for months otherwise....my middle name aint 'thick' for nowt haha

[Red Oktober]

can you get the pic off your phone and onto your pc
if you can .....let me know and i'll give you my e-mail addy so you can send it to me

[Tiddles]

Got a roof rack off eBay for £7

Perfect for the spar wheel

[markta]

hi carl,yes i can get a pic from my phone to my pc,i will take a pic tomorrow afternoon(i have the kids in morn,missus at work) and pm you carl so you can post it,thanks for your help,mark

[markta]

hi,tiddles im glad to hear you got a bargain off ebay i been looking for roof racks for months,and havent seen any bargains..just my luck

[Red Oktober]

hi carl,yes i can get a pic from my phone to my pc,i will take a pic tomorrow afternoon(i have the kids in morn,missus at work) and pm you carl so you can post it,thanks for your help,mark

no problemo ....i'll pm you my e-mail address

[Red Oktober]

heres the pics of "markta's" roof bars

[nitromotor]

Looks good, tidy job!

[Drift]

Does the job saves a pretty penny or two

[Sir-Doris]

Looks good, I would stick a bit of bicycle inner tube or summat around the frontera bars tho. just an extra little bit of scratch protection.