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Personnutrunner
13/6/2010 at 9:00pm
 Location: merseyside
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after our last weekends camping, discussed with the mrs about buying a roof box as the car was full completely full what with the dog as well, so went on ebay and after a few days found a halfords 250ltr going not to far from our home on merseyside i won it for £22 and with the roof bars £60 im well pleased ,hasnt half made a difference now with the box taking all the camping gear leaving the boot free for our dog and the mrs can put her bits and pieces on the back seats now for a bit of sun and we are site hunting again


PersonDebhill
13/6/2010 at 9:10pm
 Location: Northampton
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Well done! I think a roof box is the way forward for us. We're usually chocked to the gills! On the last campsite we stayed virtually everyone with a tent had one. Need to do some research!


PersonHarvey69
13/6/2010 at 9:35pm
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i got a one from Freecycle now just looking for roof bars.

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Personthe bfg
13/6/2010 at 10:02pm
 Location: maidstone kent
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Have just got mine last week from a member on here selling it through the

free adverts .

Got it for £30 really good value , so keep an eye out on the free ad's

paul


Personbusy bee 101
13/6/2010 at 10:41pm
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We bought ours a few years ago and have really come to rely on it now. Just a word of warning though, be very careful when entering car parks and places with height restrictions. I got wedged going into an underground supermarket car park (oops!) Thought it better not to tell the OH till he opened the roof box and it looked like edward scissor hands had a go at the lid of the roof box . Needless to say I will never live it down, but I won't make the same mistake again .  I would deffinately invest in one, we got ours from roofbox.com and found them to be quite competitively priced.


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Personnutrunner
14/6/2010 at 8:26am
 Location: merseyside
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harvey try ebay should get roof bars there i did, and   busybee glad you reminded me about the height restrictions ,


Persontigang
02/7/2010 at 3:30pm
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We invested in a roof box, then a trailer, then a bigger trailer

Have to say that (money aside) the trailer is the smarter of the two options because...
  1. it stores all the camping stuff between trips ready to go
  2. it's simple to hitch/unhitch unlike the roofbox
  3. can leave the trailer at the campsite while we travel but the roofbox comes with us and lowers our MPG and restricts access to parking

But... as we now fill both the trailer and roof box up we can't do without it

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Personnutrunner
02/7/2010 at 4:40pm
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at harvey what car have you, i had trouble to start with for my primera t spec hatch but got one of ebay in the end , its easier if you gutters, my nissan is gutter less and the back is slopping strange shape but like i said got a set in the end £70 roof box fits on great, also i measured the height with box on and stuck a label in the corner of screen , and tried it at my local halfords just got under

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Personnicola1972
02/7/2010 at 5:18pm
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Quote: Originally posted by tigang on 02/7/2010
We invested in a roof box, then a trailer, then a bigger trailer

Have to say that (money aside) the trailer is the smarter of the two options because...
  1. it stores all the camping stuff between trips ready to go
  2. it's simple to hitch/unhitch unlike the roofbox
  3. can leave the trailer at the campsite while we travel but the roofbox comes with us and lowers our MPG and restricts access to parking

But... as we now fill both the trailer and roof box up we can't do without it

If we had somewhere to keep a trailer I'm sure we'd have one too but as we live in a terraced with no rear access can't so for us roof box. Got it off ebay a 340 ish ltr flightdeck box and Thule roof bars for £70, would have cost me more than that just for bars. I looked under my car model as I got very confused with codes for feet and bars and attachment kits.

We keep our roof box down the garden in it's shelter when not being used, so could put stuff in it if we really wanted. Ours is ready attached to the roof bars (can take off but we leave it on) so just take it out front and put on car, takes 5 mins to fit. Could take it off whilst camping and hide it or put it in the tent when we go out but so far haven't bothered

 


PersonFathe
02/7/2010 at 7:16pm
 Location: South Yorkshire
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If anybody is looking for a new one the GO leaflet has a Mont Blanc 450L one with 44% off at £124.99 PLUS and extra 15% off tis weekend in store.


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PersonMagicman2
02/7/2010 at 7:26pm
 Location: King's Lynn
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 A roof box is as important as a groundsheet, you could do without it but you really wouldn't want to

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Steve

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