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Always, Always put straps on a roofbox. We put on two, one at the front, and one at the back (side to side). We also ALWAYS stop every hour or so, to strech legs, and check stpaps, box etc.

Reason, seen a bloke almost get himself killed, by trying to retrieve his daughters teddybear, amongst other things from the fast (lane 3) of a motorway, after their roofbox blew open on the M3 near Winchester, last summer (we were stuck in traffic on the other carriageway) and saw it all happen. The family were on the hard shoulder, watching whilst he went for the items !!!!

I work for a highways company, and had to call for one of our incident support vehicles, to attend, but because I had mentioned that a person was in the middle of the motorway the police had to provide a rolling roadblock, whilst the items were retrieved, (and a ticket was given to the driver, for not having a secure load on his vehicle, which can be up to a £1000.00 fine) oh yes and points.

Stumpy....

Quote: Originally posted by Stumpy230168 on 16/5/2007

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 The family were on the hard shoulder, watching whilst he went for the items !!!!

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i still go all cold when i think of the man i saw in a similar situation....

Thanks

They are just webbing straps that come in various lengths and are about 25mm wide with a metal grippy thing, that you use to secure any sort of load. You just thread the end through take up the slack and the grippy thing bites into the material and will not let go unless you press down on the metal catch to release it.

Only a couple of quid or so (sorry about the explanation, but cant think how else to describe them)

And dont know how to do a link for you, sorry

Stumpy...

Quote: Originally posted by Captain Kipper on 16/5/2007

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I have a Thule Pacific 100 on order and would like to know where you are getting the staps from that you all mention.

 

Thanks

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I have just taken delivery of my pacific 200 and the first thing i did was to order some tie down straps on e bay 

In my work, travelling the m/ways, i've seen these roof boxes spill there load numerous times. I dread to think if i was riding my bike behind a car that had a roof box shed its contents.

As was earlier said, an insecure load, on any vehicle is a road traffic offence, which can result in a substansial fine and penalty points on your licence. Just because some of these boxes are substandard, would not give you mitigating circumstances.

Quote: Originally posted by clairemac9 on 17/5/2007

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how many meters  straps should i buy for a 380 litre box got me thinking now

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outside width of the box X 2 and depth of box X 2 so about 3 metre staps for side to side

or outside length of box X 2 plus depth of box X 2 so about 5 metre straps for front to back