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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 2/2/2008 2:45:28 PM

Iron Buckeye

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I bought the factory roof rail and crossbar system and installed it myself. It took about 90 minutes and does take a certain amount of guts (you need a special drill bit and have to drill four holes in the plastic rain gutter) but it isn't all that difficult if you're moderatly capable around cars.

To answer the original poster's question, there is a permanant cross bar that sits just behind the sunroofs. The intent (I think) is to keep soft-bottom cargo from sagging and pressing down on the open sunroof. It seems to protect the raised back edge of the sunroof panel. This rail is in addition to the two crossbars that come with the crossbar kit. Also, the factory rails and crossbar had absolutely NO noticable effect on cabin noise in my experience.

I DID notice a slight increase in wind noise when I added a Thule bike rack to the setup - which I did a few days later.

Jim2342, to answer your quesiton I used the same Thule system that I had on my freelander with zero modifications. You may want to try searching Thule's site for products that fit the 04-05 Freelander. The racks aren't very different at all.

Hope that helps.

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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 3/27/2008 1:24:21 PM

kslr2

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I have the roof rack and crossbars. Use it with a Thule box. Dealer installed the rack and crossbars. Box fits on perfect. No problems or issues.

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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 6/21/2008 10:46:36 PM

lholho

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Hi

Due to height limitations of my garage, the permanent LR2 roof rails are not an option for me. Looking around the internet, I came across references of a standard Thule crossbar that mounts on top of the roof without the need of the roof rail. The references are for Freelander 2 which I believe is the European version of the LR2. Here is the reference:

http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic290-90.html

Check out this page for a picture:

http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic290-135.html

I have identified the necessary parts: Thule Rapid System 750 with the car adapter 1443 and your choice of bars. Unfortunately, the model numbers seem to be unavailable here in the United States (or quite possibly a different set of numbers are used). Anyone have any luck purchasing this system? Anyone know of someplace in the UK which would ship to the US?

Thanks for any help

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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 8/31/2008 7:18:06 PM

N22

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Here is a picture of factory raised rails, and landrover cross bars...with a 21 Yakima skybox.....
No problem with sunroof. Hope this may help someone looking, for extra storage.

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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 8/31/2008 8:05:21 PM

N22

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When you put on the thule bike rack, did you remove the permenant cross bar?
Check out the attached picture form the Accessories brochure....notice no permenant cross bar....unless i cant see it...but looks like just the two cross bars...now I''am wondering how much use the permenant cross bar is if you have the two others.

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RE: Raised roof rails + crossbars - 9/26/2008 5:54:18 PM

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