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A question for all the technical in mind:
I have a PT Cruiser with factory roof rails and load bars. Will this with
a Thule fork-mount rack be strong enough, or should I go for the long run
and get Thule feet and load bars for my rails? It means spending twice as
much money now, but am I likely to see a failure of the oem load bars?
-Mike
msmiles at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Quoted message said:t means spending twice as
much money now, but am I likely to see a failure of the oem load bars?
Depends who makes the OEM bars. Yakims makes subaru racks and accessories but
with chrysler who knows.
If Yakima made the OEM racks, they are evil! Otherwise, the ones that
make them for Subaru, Mitsubisi, Mazda Protege, and other brain-dead
designs are just incompetent morons.
In 2003, Subaru changed the design of their racks so that Yakima Low
Rider adaptors would no longer fit. My friend had to wait (and wait and
wait) for Yakima to come out with an adaptor for them.
Coworkers have the Mazda and a new Mitsubishi Outback. Those appear to
be carefully designed so that no known adaptor can fit on them (perhaps
seeing if regular towers will lift cross bars over the top of the silly
things). The Outback rack even lacks any kind of crossbar all together.
Like I said, incompetent morons!
Jkpoulos7 said:Quoted message said:t means spending twice as
much money now, but am I likely to see a failure of the oem load bars?Depends who makes the OEM bars. Yakims makes subaru racks and accessories but
with chrysler who knows.
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