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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: Konan on September 04, 2011, 11:35:22 AM

Title: Using XJ roof bars.
Post by: Konan on September 04, 2011, 11:35:22 AM

This doesn't feel very technical....

Even WITH the manual, I'm having trouble working out how one is supposed to use the built in roof bars on the XJ. Do they function as a regular roof bar that you'd clamp on to rails (e.g. you can attach a bike carrier stright to them) or do they require additional parts? I only ask, as my old ford has Cross bars but the manual clearly states that they're to reinforce the car and NOT to attack things directly to them.

I want to make use of the roof for bikes, so I'm not interested in fitting a cage (which is what I keep running in to when searching on this subject!) and since it's a Jeep on the Cheap, I don't really want to buy any extras, so if it's not OK to mount stuff stright to the cross bars, the 'roo will have to contine as the bike lugger.

Thanks in advance...

Title: Re: Using XJ roof bars.
Post by: Dave69 on September 04, 2011, 01:29:42 PM

i have two sets of std roof bars fitted to mine manly to spread the wight across four rather than two. the are quite strong in their own right and i have carried doors and large cupboards on them. They are relatively strong and do the jobe that they are intend for. So carrying push bikes shouldn't be an issue.

Title: Re: Using XJ roof bars.
Post by: tim_aka_tim on September 06, 2011, 09:11:02 PM

As I recall, the standard roof bars on my old XJ were about as strong as two squirts of silly string.
They'll take the weight, but it will bounce like a whore's matress.

Title: Re: Using XJ roof bars.
Post by: brian reid on September 10, 2011, 08:51:42 PM

there rubbish,anything more heavy than a surf board your in trouble.

Title: Re: Using XJ roof bars.
Post by: Dave69 on September 11, 2011, 05:03:56 PM

another option is to look for Mount Blanc roof bars as they make or now used to make roof bars the cherokee which bolt to the gutters