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I Dont thik you will save anything going to Halfords - I was in there lst week and I was shocked at what they qouted £127 for Thule bars for an 08 A4

You have spoken to Roof Box Company - they sell Altera bars and quoted me £75 for steel and £87 for Alloy ( with the 5% member discount )

Looks a good deal to me

Simon

I have used roofbox.co both times I've bought roofbars... The altera ones are fine for the job.... Two different sets, one used on a mondeo, the other a focus-cmax... Similarly to yourself, if I could have justified the extra expense, I'd have gone for Thule, but the others have done the job just as well, for less cost. Max weight 75kg I think. The box I got was 66kg max include the box. So they are plenty strong enough. Shame you've not got a c-max as I probably would have sold you mine as I've attached the roofbox to my trailer now...

....and in the mean time have you tried renting?

We rented the box and bars last summer as we knew we were getting rid of the car before this summer. Gives you time to wait for the rigt ones on fleabay.

can`t remember exact price but less than £40 for 10 days, and it was all fitted for me

Quote: Originally posted by Vampgirl on 22/7/2009

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Hubby quite likes the idea of buying from Halfords so that we can have someone fit them the first time to show us how to do it properly.

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You don't have to buy them from Halfords in order for them to fit them for you. I recently bought Thule ones online and then took them to Halfords and got them to fit them (I just pretended I'd bought them at a different Halfords store but I don't think even that was necessary). They were MUCH cheaper online than from Halfords (£55 cheaper!) My friend sent me some of hers that she no longer needed but they arrived damaged in the post so I had to buy new and it needed to be as cheap as possible as I had no budget at all for them. I would have bought Halfords own, but they don't seem to make ones for my car (Freelander 2) so it was the Thules we ended up with. I'm quite glad now as I will be able to keep these for years and years.

Thule are expensive, but at least you've got rails that you can use on pretty much any other car - you just need to buy a new footpack which is specific to your new car. So they'd last you a lot longer.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/walkingthepeaks

Might be worth keeping an eye on these.