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Hi,

I wondered if you can get roof bars that fit onto a trailer that has an abs solid lid?

We have a Lider Seville trailer with an abs lid. The lid is smooth, without any sort of bars on top. We wouldnt want to buy the side extentions as we have the lid, and they are mesh.

We are just looking for ideas to give us a little more room for things/ space in car when travelling with all of our camping gear.

Thanks

Thanks for your advice.

I thought that the roof bars would have to be secured to the actual trailer too. I don't want to be checking constantly that nothing has moved or is going to come flying off!

I was hopeful that the a frame at the front of the trailer, would hold a storage box of some description, but alas the space is way too small.

Guess I'll have to be an ace packer! ...I need to have space for shopping when I'm coming home from france.

Thanks again.

I've got a Franc trailer with ABS lid and on our trips carry a Thule 4 bike rack on it. The bike rack is the sort that normally goes on the towball, but of course can't when the trailers there.

The rack sits on a couple of wooden bearers that run the full width of the top near to moulded ribs (quite small ribs really). The bearers are each made from a beam of appprox 4"x2" hardwood that I had lying around, each beam is cut along its length to match the curved profile of the outer surface of the ABS lid and then the convex part of the beam sanded to remove wood the thickness of the lid to match the inner profile of the lid. The concave and convex parts are then bolted back together through the lid. I've also added a couple of bits of wood on each beam to act as guides and provide some sideways restraint, the rack's held down with a strap down to the trailer frame/chassis at each corner.

This seems to work for me, but all the usual disclaimers apply

I Know Erde do them for the abs lids and they can be bought at western towing ive had some stuff from them and they are very good

I have an Erde lid, with attached roof bars...

Scuse the photo... I can't work out how to rotate it on dropbox.com... It's the right way round on my PC - I've rotated it - but when I upload it reverts back sideways ?

That looks very cool and so much extra space!!

I think I'll need to investigate further to find a stockist who does roof bars for my trailer or perhpas get someone to make some up. It's either that or leave somethings behind......couldn't even begin think what it is we take but don't need, lol.

Thanks to everyone for the helpful suggestions/advice.

Hi we too had the same problem about trying to get roof bars for our trailer.  We found a local guy who made 2 E shape bars (without the middle bit) and supplied with four plates and 10mm long bolts and wing nuts.  We drilled two holes in the side of trailer for each plate and the bars have two matching holes through you just bolt the bars to the side of the trailer we then put three bike racks on top the whole thing cost a tenner so find yourself a local welder give him the width of the outer side of trailer to other side and these will do fine.  We just towed trailer with two adult and one child bikes to weymouth for week and they all stayed on.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into that!