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Subject Topic: Help! Fitting Roof Bars Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonMrsGlas
22/7/2010 at 8:16pm
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Hello All,

My lovely new roof bars arrived today, unfortunately, me being a girl, and the instructions not being so good, I havent a clue what I'm doing!

Right, at the moment I have one question... the gutters on my car have thar rubber / plastic covering the groove where the bars fit; do I remove this rubber / plastic thing? I don't know how I'mgoing to fit them otherwise!

Thanks for any replys!


Personspikemike
22/7/2010 at 8:20pm
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remove the cover, it should slide one way and pop out, uinderneath should be a screw thread which your new roof bars should screw into.

Incidently what car have you got and what type/name of roof bars have you?

Mike

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PersonMrsGlas
22/7/2010 at 8:21pm
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Phew! Thanks Mike, will do that now.

I have a Citroen C3 and have got some Cruz bars from the Roofbox co.

I may have more questions soon!


PersonCaurnieBred
22/7/2010 at 9:01pm
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You may find that the holes for the screws are covered up by a "bubble" (they were on my C-Max so we had to burst the bubble with a screwdriver before we could insert the screw). Also, the brackets were shaped depending on what bit of the car they went on (each bracket had a number embossed on it and this number was shown on the diagram that came with the brackets - ours came from Roofbox too, so I imagine yours will be similar).


PersonMrsGlas
22/7/2010 at 9:07pm
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Ok, this is strange, its just a groove - not a screw, so I cant fix the bar to the car, I just tighten them between the 2 grooves if you get what I mean?


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hi mrs glas have been looking at some pictures do you have a part that seems to clip in to the inside ot the car


PersonMrsGlas
22/7/2010 at 9:17pm
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Aha! May be thats whats gone wrong then! I'll give it a go - there is a part that could do it yes!


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22/7/2010 at 9:22pm
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ahhhh wish i was there so i could help you out, frustrating trying to explain things when you cant really have a good look at it.See what i can google for you


PersonMrsGlas
22/7/2010 at 9:53pm
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That was it - thank you so much! I would have been there til midnight otherwise! One fitted anyway, I know exactly what I'm doing now. Phew


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22/7/2010 at 9:56pm
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well done i can go to bed now.Glad your sorted.



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