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Personjefflad
08/8/2007 at 11:38am
 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Your roof box for the car while camping?

Do you leave it on or take it off and store it in the tent?

Jeff


Persontry some fresh air
08/8/2007 at 11:55am
 Location: North Somerset
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It stays on, its out of the way. Can cause a problem in some car parks though.


Personamisbk196
08/8/2007 at 11:57am
 Location: SE London
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Use it as a punishment hut for the kids

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PersonSkatty
08/8/2007 at 11:57am
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It stays on ,uses a LOT more petrol thopugh ,so I think if we were to travel a fair way on the motorwat or something we would take it off and shove it in the tent!

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Persontry some fresh air
08/8/2007 at 12:10pm
 Location: North Somerset
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amisbk196, can you do that with the car moving?


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Personsteveandkirsty
08/8/2007 at 12:24pm
 Location: South Birmingham
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Hi,
We have a trailer now! But when we went for the week with the roof box we took it off and stuck it behind the tent and used it to store the buckets and spades and swimming gear etc. It was quite handy.

Kirsty


PersonSprocket
08/8/2007 at 12:57pm
 Location: North Wales
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We only really use it when going abroad, when we went away last August we took it off, roofbars and all and put it behind the tent.


Personamisbk196
08/8/2007 at 1:03pm
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Quote: Originally posted by try some fresh air on 08/8/2007
amisbk196, can you do that with the car moving?

It's not scary enough if you do it when the car isn't moving



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Personkate w
08/8/2007 at 5:00pm
 Location: Derbyshire
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We leave ours on and don't notice any difference in fuel consumption.  (Big box on the top of a 307 estate)

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Personspearson
08/8/2007 at 7:03pm
 Location: Hampshire
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We take ours off and store it behind the tent

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Personsocksitis
08/8/2007 at 7:15pm
 Location: South Devon
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We have just put ours together and on the truck, took ages!  With some spare bits????  I don't think we will ever be taking it off


Persondebbie1971
08/8/2007 at 8:10pm
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We take ours off and use it as storage while away.

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Personjefflad
09/8/2007 at 9:29am
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I think we#ll be taking it off, I was just a bit worried of it going 'missing' when not around!!

Thanks

Jeff


Personmini
09/8/2007 at 9:35am
 Location: cornwall
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We have just fitted ours to the top of the trailer, so easy for storage while on site and no worries about going into carparks etc while away.

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Personangelsweets
09/8/2007 at 8:47pm
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We leave ours on. We've not long come back from our first camping trip and OMG what a squeeze! We've got a Mondeo and with the box on the roof we thought we'd have loads of room. How wrong we were! Hubby's now bought himself an old wreck of a trailer and is in the process of doing it up. He's gonna fit a board to the top and either fit the roofbox to it, or a cycle rack. Hopefully next time the kids won't be so squished in the back lol

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