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SportRack A26395 Aero 1300 Roof Box
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Great so far : SportRack A26395 Aero 1300 Roof Box
Comes fully assembled except for the brackets that hold it to your cross bars. They are pretty simple to put in. I was a little afraid that it wouldn't fit the width of my factory cross bars on my 2005 Subaru Forester. They are a flat, "aero" design, but the brackets with this box fit them easily with room to spare. The bars would have to be REALLY wide to not fit. It is wide enough to use about 2/3 of the width of the bars on a Forester, and it fits about even with the top of the back window, with enough room for the hatch to open without touching, and about a foot behind the top of the front window. For less drag and better gas mileage, you are supposed to put it as far back as possible while allowing the rear door to open.
For those with thick bars, other reviews complained the included screws are not long enough. The screws are standard lag bolts with a square shoulder. A quick trip to the hardware store with one of them to get the same size/thread screw in a longer size would only take a few minutes and cost maybe $1 each for 8 of them. Not a really big deal. It might be nice for the manufacturer to include the ones they do for flat bars, and a set an inch longer or so for larger square or round bars, but it is simple enough to remedy.
It has a strap attached to the inside of the lid to make it easier to reach, pull and close, a nice touch I don't remember seeing in the product description.
I've bought a roll of self adhesive foam door weather stripping in an effort to better seal it off from the weather. The top and bottom simply overlap by at least an inch in such a way that wind wouldn't be likely to push any water up in there, but I'd like to try to make sure. I haven't used it in the rain yet, so I don't know how weatherproof it is without the weatherstrip I'm adding. I suppose I could put a sheet of plastic in the bottom of the box and load everything in there, then wrap the plastic over the top of everything before closing the lid. Any water that did get in would drain out around the screw holes. There are ridges in the bottom to keep all but soft bags out of any water that collected in the bottom.
edit: It turns out I didn't need to do the weatherstripping. The glue on the weather stripping failed and it came out, but I've never had anything get wet. No problems!
I bought this primarily so when my family goes camping or on vacation in a dark sky location, we can take our big telescope with us. We have an Orion 8" Dobsonian (the mirror is 8", the tube is bigger than that and is almost 4 feet long, and there are projections for attaching to the base, focuser, finder, etc.), and the tube in Orion's padded carrying case will fit with room for a duffel bag and my eyepiece case. The base goes in the trunk in the space the duffel would have taken. The base is too big to fit in this box. Works well for this purpose.
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