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Cave and Mine Exploring => For Sale / Wanted => Topic started by: mick murphy on Sep 21, 2015, 10:07 PM

Title: roof rack
Post by: mick murphy on Sep 21, 2015, 10:07 PM
offers of £40 or mor this is a rhino roof rack cost £320 has a roll bar at the rear and has an internal area
of 7ft by 4 ft will fit long based landrovers and small van,colour black will spray it to customer requirments for the cost of the paint, labour free


Title: roof rack
Post by: Tim Watts on Sep 21, 2015, 11:14 PM
Shame i just spent a few hundred quid on a new one for my landy a couple of months ago :-/

Don't think it would be big enough to fit a landy though anyway.

The gutter rails of a defender are 1.445m (4 foot nine inches) so the racks need to be at least as wide as that for them - typically they tend to be 5 foot wide.

They are also between 9foot 6 inches and 10 feet in length for a long wheel base landy too so yours would be too narrow and also too short. Also the legs need to be a lot longer too because the landy rails are a good 10 inches lower than where the roof rack needs to sit to clear the roof because it curves up from where the rails are..... :-(

(only know all this coz i've been recently been doing my homework when buying my new one).


Title: roof rack
Post by: Joel Colk on Sep 22, 2015, 07:03 PM
Tim, Happy to see you have had the landy painted.

No idea how you managed to talk Sarah into getting a tank on the drive too, but well done! ;)
Title: roof rack
Post by: Anthony Britner on Sep 23, 2015, 05:55 PM
chop it up and use it for shoring up digs ;)
Title: roof rack
Post by: Tom Howard on Sep 25, 2015, 03:05 PM
Murf,  as discussed I'll take it :-) will pop over to collect in next few weeks.
Title: roof rack
Post by: Tom Howard on Oct 04, 2015, 07:02 PM
Mick, tried to call and have left a text. If you could get back to me at some point I'd be interested to collect this week..  

Ta, Tom