Jong Rooftop Box Question

**XXX-er** · 10-16-2020, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Holy shit, did you just have to take an electric hacksaw to everything to take it off? I left mine on for three, and that was a mess. The bolts and wing nuts whatever really should be loosened and greased once a year.

I used to put anti-sieze compound on the threads of the thule rack every year, I missed a year or 2 and the rack became permanent until somebody stole the car and ripped the racks off

the golf had lousy clearance for the narth so now i drive PU's with a canopy

**SoVT Joey** · 10-17-2020, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

It's the wind chill effect. Affect. Aeffect?

I dunno but it’s definitely going to be impacted. Is he affected by the windchill effect IN or ON Teton pass while his wife is snow blowing Montana boys instead of paper grading his half assed offshore drilling contracts

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**El Chupacabra** · 10-17-2020, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by SoVT Joey

I dunno but it’s definitely going to be impacted. Is he affected by the windchill effect IN or ON Teton pass while his wife is snow blowing Montana boys instead of paper grading his half assed offshore drilling contracts

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PM Rontele about the plane taking off in upstate New York.

**ill-advised strategy** · 10-17-2020, 10:01 AM

I attach mine every year with the biggest zipties you can get at the hardware store....way better than dealing with the corroded hardware.

**El Chupacabra** · 10-17-2020, 10:08 AM

Just use giant suction cups. What could go wrong?

https://www.seasucker.com/collection...s-2020-edition

**AK47bp** · 10-17-2020, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

Just use giant suction cups. What could go wrong?

https://www.seasucker.com/collection...s-2020-edition

Umm....TGR is more pro-magnet

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**AK47bp** · 10-17-2020, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by muted

Wow rocketbox management is serious business.

Crickey.

You can’t really master roof box management until you’ve mastered cooler management. Duh.

Unless Thule starts making rotomolded coolers, or Yeti starts making roof boxes.

I just blew my own mind.

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**El Chupacabra** · 10-17-2020, 01:23 PM

A Yeti roof box would weigh 250# empty and cost $1000. And people would buy them.

**XXX-er** · 10-17-2020, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy

I attach mine every year with the biggest zipties you can get at the hardware store....way better than dealing with the corroded hardware.

a paddle bro would just put the bars in those 2 crosswise slots and throw a thule cam strap over/under the box which worked fine

the box hard ware is not the problem cuz the nuts are inside the box out of the weather but if you leave a rack up there in shitty weather we get up here without maintaining the attachment hardware it will become a permanent part of the car

**shroom** · 10-17-2020, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

A Yeti roof box would weigh 250# empty and cost $1000. And people would buy them.

why when you can find a used packasport for $3-400? it’s already out there and i’m loving mine (retail a cool $1900 holy shit)

edit: and it’s only 90#

“Choose a custom color for $475 more”

my last plug is that i was on the phone with the owner of packasport talking parts, and he legitimately told me ‘i have customers tell me they get better gas mileage with the packasport on, these things are that aerodynamic’.

can’t beat it

**margotron** · 10-17-2020, 07:05 PM

wtf is a packasport

**optics** · 10-17-2020, 07:10 PM

You can find a used packasport?

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 10-17-2020, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by margotron

wtf is a packasport

Jong!

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**shroom** · 10-17-2020, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by optics

You can find a used packasport?

i had the luxury of shopping the used Bellevue WA market for a few years, it’s a beautiful thing

https://www.packasport.com/products/journeyer-system-90

**muted** · 10-17-2020, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

A Yeti roof box would weigh 250# empty and cost $1000. And people would buy them.

And they would have little sections to warm up your skins and keep your beer cold of course, in a colorway that reflects the restless spirit inside you and of the entire west: Sagebrush. Takes a lot of grit to manage one of these roofboxes, but the reward is worth the trouble. Only true adventures need apply.

(They would be way more than $1000 though. )

**El Chupacabra** · 10-17-2020, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by muted

And they would have little sections to warm up your skins and keep your beer cold of course, in a colorway that reflects the restless spirit inside you and of the entire west: Sagebrush. Takes a lot of grit to manage one of these roofboxes, but the reward is worth the trouble. Only true adventures need apply.

(They would be way more than $1000 though. )

They'd be the McDLT of roof boxes, keeping the hot side hot and the cold side cold.

And de rigeur for all overlanding car campers.

**AK47bp** · 10-17-2020, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by margotron

wtf is a packasport

The Yeti of roof boxes.

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**Norseman** · 10-17-2020, 09:02 PM

I got a packasport off craigslist for $125 last year... super score.

**phatty** · 10-17-2020, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Norseman

I got a packasport off craigslist for $125 last year... super score.

My old boss had one in his storage unit and asked me if I wanted it. Got it for free and my wife was happy it was white to match the car. Bulletproof and way better than the Thule I had before.

**stuckathuntermtn** · 10-17-2020, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by phatty

My old boss had one in his storage unit and asked me if I wanted it. Got it for free and my wife was happy it was white to match the car. Bulletproof and way better than the Thule I had before.

Fuckin better be for 3 times the price.

Yes. Skins on at home if possible. They can be a bitch (because I'm a jong with skins). One of my favorite things about the box is being able to just leave the skis in there. I don't have problems with rust and I wouldn't call it terribly dry here.

**Shredhead** · 10-18-2020, 06:14 AM

I apply skins at home. I hang them out to dry every night. So instead of folding them up, I just put them on.

I always boot up at home too.

**SoVT Joey** · 10-18-2020, 06:42 AM

Those packasport boxes look like some of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve ever seen. 80 fucking pounds for a low pro? 475 to spray a custom color. My cap for my truck was 2300 with a color match for free if I wanted it. 2100 for a roof box color matched. Hahahaha They are smoking some of that wicked shitty Oregon weed apparently. I’ll buy 5 Yakima’s that I just bought for the price of one of those.

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**glademaster** · 10-18-2020, 07:13 AM

It isn't the bickering, infighting, backstabbing, or political asshattery that turned this place into a soulless cesspool, it's threads like this and the people who start them.

**Benny Profane** · 10-18-2020, 07:41 AM

Sheesh, somebody is a little cranky. Try the Mydol.

**Benny Profane** · 10-18-2020, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Fuckin better be for 3 times the price.

Yes. Skins on at home if possible. They can be a bitch (because I'm a jong with skins). One of my favorite things about the box is being able to just leave the skis in there. I don't have problems with rust and I wouldn't call it terribly dry here.

Yeah, my box is winter storage. I love that. A little rust, but no whoop.