Roofrails

Having seen several Evoques and Coupes in the last week with roofrails I've taken the plunge and asked LPR to fit Gloss Black rails and supply cross bars while the have the car in for service/ parking. Doing this means I can sell my Ivor Williams trailer and put the car in the garage instead. Hope I've done the right thing!

I'm sure it will look good. Pictures please though!

It will, I'm biased but think the roof bars improve the look greatly

   

Here some just taken, with the crossbars on









One thing I can say - the rails and crossbars are silent at speed, however I have just been to Halfords to get a bike carrier and the sales guy told me to keep things silent that I should not totally remove the rubber fillet but to cut it where the carrier will be secured to the crossbars otherwise it will become quite noisy with the bike carrier on the roof. I haven't taken the crossbars off as I don't appear to be paying any fuel consumption penalty - again today I got 42mpg on my run to/from town.

Tim,
If your happy to leave them on then do so..I have fitted my cross bars a number of times and they are a right pain to remove and install.

By the way did LPR tell you that there are location holes on the inner sides of the rails for front and rear? I wasn't told this by my dealer! and spent a good 1/2 hour trying to work out why the bolts wouldn't engage..


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Cutter, no they didn't mention those location holes. There's an odd shaped tool in the cross bar storage bag, what is it for?

It's for tightening the bolts under the key flaps into the rails. ( the location holes)

The other thing to remember is that the plastic key flap covers are different front to rear for fixing onto the bars.

so I have marked mine front or rear (underneath) if ever I should get them mixed up.. which to be honest I have done x2!..


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One reason for not taking them off is because it has been so wet up here I haven't had a spell long enough. I wanted to mark the F & R with an indelible pen or paint marker, and also marke where on the rails they go for the roof box.
Was impressed with the Thule bike carrier that Halfords stock but at £92 it can wait until next month's pay check!

Once you have removed them you will see these location holes easily on the inner rails.

I just put masking tape under each plastic key cover to indicate F or R


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(13-09-2012 07:24pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  One reason for not taking them off is because it has been so wet up here I haven't had a spell long enough. I wanted to mark the F & R with an indelible pen or paint marker, and also marke where on the rails they go for the roof box.
Was impressed with the Thule bike carrier that Halfords stock but at £92 it can wait until next month's pay check!

Yes they are very good, in fact bloody perfect for the job! I loaded mine with 3 big mountain bikes, and the rack was still solid on the towbar carrying that weight, when I took them of at Pitlochry









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(13-09-2012 07:15pm)cutter7 Wrote:  It's for tightening the bolts under the key flaps into the rails. ( the location holes)

The other thing to remember is that the plastic key flap covers are different front to rear for fixing onto the bars.

so I have marked mine front or rear (underneath) if ever I should get them mixed up.. which to be honest I have done x2!..


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The covers are actually handed left and right side with an image on the inside (underside) to show which is which. So you shouldn't be needing to mark them. Strange that they are handed as you wouldn't guess to look at them.