So yesterday I made a hard top for my daxara 107 trailer now I'm planing on putting roof bars on to carry the windbreaks and a few other bit nothing huge or really heavy has any one done this already? Pictures?
The roof is made out of angled aluminium and aluminium layer per-specs so it can hold a fare amount of weight
I would look at getting some rails fabricated, then bolt directly to thru the top of the lid, a couple of u frames rails and a few nuts and bolts should not cost that much at a local fabrication company. I would offer to make them for you but you are a bit far away from me, as I am a welder fabricato.
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Yep the Daxara 107 has a Gross max of 350kg which does not leave a lot to play with, once you have added a few extras, maybe 275kg or so for kit load.
Our kit that goes in the Trailer tips the scales at 330kg and that's with all the real heavy stuff going in the car!
The Trailer is 750kg Gross, so at 540kg Gross this year was well within limits, having said that the max unbraked towing for the car is just 650kg so I do have to keep an eye on that.
I've been undertaking a similar task with my brenderup 1205 and prior to starting I searched these forums and the wider internet for ideas for how to best add roof bars to my trailer.
In the end I decided to mount (on the hardtop) some of the factory fitted roof rails taken off a car so that I could then quickly and easily mount my standard thule roof bars (and then subsequently roof box, cycle carriers etc) and then also have the facility to even transfer the bars/box/cycle rack to my car if we needed them during our camping stay. Also I thought I would just look neater than bolting on a roof rack!
Looking around at options for donor parts it became obvious that many of the roof rails were somewhat sculptured to fit the curved roof present on many of todays vehicles; the obvious exceptions being the 4x4's,mpv's and van type vehicles which have flatter roofs.
I finally decided on the flush rails (the type that take a kind of 't track' fittting ) and was, after some patience, able to source some for just over £20 on a well known auction site. The ones I got came with some bespoke cross rails but also had a thule adapter kit available so that I can also use my existing thule cross rails. This makes the original width less of an issue, although I could probably reduce the bespoke rails if needed.
I haven't fitted the parts yet (something for the winter nights!!!) but it looks pretty straightforward
Hope these thoughts and ideas help with your project
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