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25/4/2021 at 3:45pm
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Welcome to the forum RebeccaH
Back in 2008 we got the Thule 900 Backup Box, as we already had the Thule 902 Bike
carrier which the Backup box was designed to clip onto.
We loaded it up with our 57kg tent, and set off to the South of France for three weeks.
The problem was not really with the backup box, it was the rest of our 350kg load of kit being in the car, steering was vague and the rear wheels of the car had almost disappeared out of view up into the rear wheel arches of the car, the car was a 18 plate firms VW TDi Golf.
Another issue with these load carriers that use a base which clamps onto the tow ball, is that they are right on the load limit for a clamp on solution, so you can find that they move and tilt of there own accord, also dropping the base to gain access to the rear of the car, can be quite a faff, with a fully loaded box.
We sold the backup box to someone on here when we returned, and then bought a trailer, the rest they say is history, photo in gallery.
As for storage I used to store my trailer at a local storage firm, they had indoor storage for household stuff, and outdoor storage in the form of shipping containers, they would store small trailers like mine on top of the shipping containers, the trailers were secured with ratchet straps.
They would just use the forklift to get the trailers on and off the containers, storage cost was around £2 per week.
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Back in 2019 due to a change of company car policy, we could not use the trailer, so we had to cram everything into a brand new Ford Kuga, luckily we also had a Kamie Husky XXL 510lt roofbox.
We set of on the 1,100 mile journey to our campsite down on the Cote d Azur, to be fair it was fine, especially not having to tow.
But I really did miss not having the trailer, we could not get everything back in the car when it was time to return, so we left behind a couple of 25lt water carriers behind at the campsite.
There are just the two of us, but we take a lot of kit, so hopefully we will get to use the trailer again next year.
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