Rhino-Racks,

Me too Michael, just had a Rhino Rack boat loader fitted in Sydney and am in Melbourne, on way to SA. Carrying 3.5m tinnie so far only on highways.

I have a small Rhino basket: fitted small stuff so that when the boat goes on top, the stuff (even though tied down) is locked in between the seats of the tinnie.

I was surprised to find some of the fittings quite loose. The rear roller on passenger side had sagged not quite to the point of falling off.

Lesson so far: check all nuts and bolts/fittings regularly. Maybe I will get some spring washers as well, or nylon nuts.

At this stage I'd say beware of corrugations!! Cheers, Ray

Michael the product is certainly strong enough. The big thing to keep in mind is that all roof rack fittings do settle and flex. So a daily check of all fittings is necessary. Just remenber to ensure you have the appropriate tools in a safe place all the time as without them you are in dfficulties. We have used rhino racks with fully loaded wire baskets for lots of off road travel without any problems. In fact after around two days of checking all the nuts and bolts we normally find things settle down but complacency leads to disaster.

A note on the wire baskets. They can be noisier than the others but they also flex which allows the carried load to distribute a bit rather than transferring the shock/load into the B and C pillars and fixing points. We have seen way too many cracked pillars due to overloaded roof racks so remember the 100 kg limit

Regards

RobA

I have three bars on my cruiser
carry ladders all day every day...except when i need to put on steel rack fastened to rhino bars with unistrut bolts and nuts

never had a problem and never have had to tighten..i do use spring washers
do do all that much corrogation work though

I carry my boat on Rhino Rack bars (no boat loader, I load by hand using rollers). I also have a basket on the bars that goes under the boat and holds fuel tank, anchor, seats, fishing tackle bag and the wheels for my fold up trailer. I also carry a couple of lengths of 100mm pipe on the bars (outside the boat, one on each side). One is for a home made roll out awning, the other is for fishing rods that I can't fit in the othe pipes on the CT. You can never have too many fishing rods (or lures).

The bars are strong enough as long as your roof is.