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Offline sleepy straven

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« on: July 01, 2007, 21:45:56 »
has anyone fitted or knows if a roof box can fit onto a hannibal roof rack.
With swmbo, dog and new baba to fit into a 110 for the trips away  the  space inside is beginning to get lost under all those nappies. I have heard the big orange shop ones are a bit rubbish and only fit onto roof rails. I would be prepared to spend the money for one that works.
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2007, 22:14:48 »
I thought all roof boxes were adjustable to suit any width of rail
I am not familiar with hannibal roof racks (too dear for me ) but both my roof boxes fitted onto a brownchurch roof rack nae bother
If you want to measure the space between rails on your roof rack (presuming it has some sort of rail of course) and let me know the size I can measure my box for you and see if it will fit
Mine have a series of holes up each side that you can place the u bolts in to clamp the box on and then just tape over the holes you dont need if that makes sense
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2007, 22:20:27 »
Someone I know may be selling one that he had on his P38  rangie which is now sold if you could be bothered coming over here for it
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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2007, 00:58:40 »
They should fit anything, basically they have U clamps that have a certain amount of adjustment for cross bars.

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« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2007, 10:48:04 »
that is the thing though. The Hannibal roof rack has 4" slats of alu for the tray base which run front to back. To get only rails I need to unbolt the tray from them. The rails are about 3" wide so a tad bigger than normal roof bars. Ideally I would not want to romove the tray as it is a bit big to move on my own. The second option is to get waterproof boxes and strap them to the roof however they are not cheap and also not very big. Anyone got any ideas!!
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