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Trip to France in June

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Old Feb 4th, 2019, 12:58   #1
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Hi All,

I know this is going to be a cheeky request, but I would like to 'borrow' some roof bars and a relatively large roof box for a two week trip at the end of June. This is our first trip away and not sure how it is going to fair and struggling to swallow the £300/£400 outlay on top for a roof box that possibly will only be used once.

In terms of size, Its for two adults, 2 children (3 and 1) and all the associated junk that comes with them!

I have a 2011 V70 D5 with the raised rails.
My postcode for location is LE9 area

Thanks in advance
Sam
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Hi All,

I know this is going to be a cheeky request, but I would like to 'borrow' some roof bars and a relatively large roof box for a two week trip at the end of June. This is our first trip away and not sure how it is going to fair and struggling to swallow the £300/£400 outlay on top for a roof box that possibly will only be used once.

In terms of size, Its for two adults, 2 children (3 and 1) and all the associated junk that comes with them!

I have a 2011 V70 D5 with the raised rails.
My postcode for location is LE9 area

Thanks in advance
Sam

I borrowed a roof box from a kind gentleman here in 2016 as a trial to see if worth the investment. All I can say, after our trip we bought our own box and have used it a lot since, from weekends away to full blown road trip holidays, by which we'll be using ours in France too. Bars you can get second hand cheap enough.
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Old Feb 5th, 2019, 13:55   #3
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I borrowed a roof box from a kind gentleman here in 2016 as a trial to see if worth the investment. All I can say, after our trip we bought our own box and have used it a lot since, from weekends away to full blown road trip holidays, by which we'll be using ours in France too. Bars you can get second hand cheap enough.
Thanks for the advice, I am considering it but is it going to be a case of buy cheap buy twice? I've been reading through your thread on the trip to France, useful info there and didn't know about the headlights, I've got xenon's too and have to flip the leaver inside.

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