Omega Owners Forum
Trading Area => Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted => Topic started by: tunnie on 11 July 2014, 16:28:39
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Long shot. But anyone got a roof box they no longer want?
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Have a Long Thin Black one you can borrow if you want.
Just need to remember what I did with the Key, as not been used for years. :-\
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Thanks for the offer. :y
I'd like to buy one really. As I think it could get fair amount of use
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Thanks for the offer. :y
I'd like to buy one really. As I think it could get fair amount of use
No worries, if no one here comes up trumps, get a second hand one of the Bay or Gumtree, I would recommend Thule, there well made and last a lifetime, the Alpine Range are quiet good but any Thule will do the job. :y
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Yeah, looking on fleaBay. Considering Amazon too :)
This one looks good:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thule-Karrite-Odyssey-Litre-Silver/dp/B004GXXDBA/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1405102195&sr=8-7&keywords=car+roof+boxes (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thule-Karrite-Odyssey-Litre-Silver/dp/B004GXXDBA/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1405102195&sr=8-7&keywords=car+roof+boxes)
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How big does it need to be?
I have a smallish one. It's not as good as the Thule, though I have their roof bars, but nor is it as expensive ::)
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360 looks good, or more :-\
Like idea of slim one, as I could get bike racks on too. I have official Vauxhall bars :)
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Mines more of a standard, squarer shape, which wouldn't suit your purposes then.
If it's for the saloon, just watch the overhang, fore and aft :y
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Yeah its for a Saloon. Its annoying the Omega bars are so close together
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The fittings for the box will dictate the spacing
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The fittings for the box will dictate the spacing
Must be adjustable? All cars different. Omega ones must go on the markings?
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Mine has two sets of u shaped brackets which protrude through the base. The bars fit through these, and the brackets tighten inside the box. These aren't variable, but I guess others could be different. It's one of the reasons I picked this particular box.
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360 looks good, or more :-\
Like idea of slim one, as I could get bike racks on too. I have official Vauxhall bars :)
fit a towbar aswell,you could get a pikey house too. ;D
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Nah. I use these things called "hotels". You don't have to tow them, set them up or empty your own shite from them. :D
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I had a Karrite 360l one, and it fitted well. Not sure I'd want anything any longer, due to overhang.
But without an LPG tank, if you need a roofbox, you need to have a good sitdown with her, until she understands she can only take certain items
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I was thinking of this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Karrite-Odyssey-360-Roofbox-360-Litres-Grey-Lid-Box-/230808101779?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Touring_Travel&hash=item35bd3c2393 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Karrite-Odyssey-360-Roofbox-360-Litres-Grey-Lid-Box-/230808101779?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Touring_Travel&hash=item35bd3c2393)
Day trips are fine, but it's when we go away for a week, need a little more space.
This is the much cheaper option, I have been looking at Volvo V70's ::)
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I was thinking of this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Karrite-Odyssey-360-Roofbox-360-Litres-Grey-Lid-Box-/230808101779?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Touring_Travel&hash=item35bd3c2393 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Karrite-Odyssey-360-Roofbox-360-Litres-Grey-Lid-Box-/230808101779?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Touring_Travel&hash=item35bd3c2393)
Day trips are fine, but it's when we go away for a week, need a little more space.
This is the much cheaper option, I have been looking at Volvo V70's ::)
Think that was the one I had.
Next cheapest option would be to fix the loom problem on the estate.
And if MrsTB and I can manage for a weeks trip in France (Northern, so unpredictable weather), with an LPG tank, and all the luggage from our Morgan owning friends, I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous post.
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I highly suspect yourself and MrsT did not have a pram and cot thingy, which took up 50% of the boot ;)
Additionally I doubt you were attending a family Wedding ::)
Time not on my side to fix the Estate, post end of July things free up. However I think it's time to call an end to the Estate :(
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I highly suspect yourself and MrsT did not have a pram and cot thingy, which took up 50% of the boot ;)
Additionally I doubt you were attending a family Wedding ::)
Time not on my side to fix the Estate, post end of July things free up. However I think it's time to call an end to the Estate :(
I don't think I've ever been on hols with MrsT, but then my memory isn't what it used to be ;)
I said about my most recent trip, simply because I had LPG, thus lost 1/3rd of the boot straight away, and still managed 4 people's luggage, bulky items like fans and so on, all in the boot. Obviously, I've done 2 week trips, again carrying our friends' luggage, but that was pre LPG, or in an Insignia in 2012. And the Insignia has a shite boot.
Just give her the case that will fit, and let her decide what to take. If it doesn't fit in, it doesn't go, simples.
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Can't correct typo's here :( ;D
Like I say we've been fine so far but never gone over night yet, need a little more storage. Box should be enough. Cause instead of LPG tank, I have a pram :D
Besides could be used on the 2.2 as well, as fancy doing some cycle camping trips with mates next year :y
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To add, roofbox isn't the complete solution IME, due to weight limit capacity of the Omega roof, and the overhang on the box. Light stuff only. I know people who have had water ingress in wet weather, so clothes/bedding - the obvious candidates - aren't always suitable.
I found the one you linked to to work for my needs, and plan to get another once I've found some suitable bars, but they aren't the complete answer. Taking less shite is the answer.
Or buy a shitbox Zafira or similar.
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To add you also had Bose shelf removed, which would help.
Don't like Zafira much. Prefer something like V70.
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To add you also had Bose shelf removed, which would help.
Easy job as previously explained
Prefer something like V70.
Can you fix it?
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To add you also had Bose shelf removed, which would help.
Easy job as previously explained
Prefer something like V70.
Can you fix it?
Nope, but I could not fix a Zafira either.
Would not mind a 2.2 estate ::)
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To add you also had Bose shelf removed, which would help.
Easy job as previously explained
Prefer something like V70.
Can you fix it?
Nope, but I could not fix a Zafira either.
Would not mind a 2.2 estate ::)
Hmmm, if your looking at a car the size of a V70 you may as well get the Estate sorted in my opinion.
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To add you also had Bose shelf removed, which would help.
Easy job as previously explained
Prefer something like V70.
Can you fix it?
Nope, but I could not fix a Zafira either.
Would not mind a 2.2 estate ::)
Hmmm, if your looking at a car the size of a V70 you may as well get the Estate sorted in my opinion.
I'd agree with that, was given a V70 for a while when I was doing some contract work for BT, Omega Estate a lot better in terms of practical usable space, could only get about 24 mpg out of the V70 not mater how hard I tried.
Back on to the roof boxes, I tried all sorts, I found the longer thinner ones are more rigged than the fat wide typed and less strain on mpg, used to carry all sorts of shite in mine, anything from cable drums, uni struct, metal brackets etc, probably well over weight and it never proved a problem. The thin long Thule one that I had was ideal in the end as I had a requirement to carry 2 sets of ladders on the MV6 Estate and that would fit neatly in the middle of them. :y
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Thanks, yeah I was looking at the long thin ones as it gives more options on the bars for other things :y
Also means 2.2 could be used more :)
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Roof boxes work fine ... :) :)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/464x309q90/153/imag0019gj.jpg)
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Like to see two bikes on there too, as might be doing the same :y
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Oi Student, have you got one yet? If not, will you get one before Newent, just so I can borrow it ;D
Mind you, I suppose using the Battlebus is marginally les humiliating ;D
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By the time he's found one I could have sourced a new 3.0 engine loom, fitted it and soldered the old one back together ::)
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Getting the Thule one from eBay. Will do us nicely until we can use a much more compact stroller, which will vastly increase boot space.