Amazon Estate roof rack fab

[HWKWallis]

For those still waiting on an original item just a quick one on how relatively easy it turned out to be to convert a cheap but wrong model.
What I presume was for a 240 was both too long and too wide at the rear.
Removed 14 cm at the front of the side rails and 4.5cm each side at the rear (in both cases around 8cm in from where the curvature completes) and with the aid of some 14mm bar which nicely slips inside the tube to weld against worked out fine.
Minor shortening to the centre and rearmost support stays.
Slats end up parallel and the roof feet align nicely above boor pillars.

Now I need a powdercoater who is open.....

Jim

[gillberry]

We have one in our garage, bought it years ago eventually got round to fitting it and found it too long and wide even though the original seller was adamant it came off an amazon estate. Boxed it back up and put away. I have dropped hints to hubby that he can buy me a car to put it on 😀

[Ron Kwas]

gillberry;

I wonder if that PO had it simply wrenched between the gutters of his 122 and called it "fitting"...it does look a bit too stable for that...but it also looks like it needs some surface clean-up, so before you do that, you should be able to cut a section out of the cross-tubes, splint, reweld, and cleanup to make it fit correctly...if you really have your heart set on that rack...

BTW...that the first time I've heard the reasoning of, buying a car to fit an on-hand rack, used...

Cheers

[gillberry]

Managed to buy one that’s will fit the amazon so I am sticking with the excuse we now need a car to fit that one as well 😀