roof rails

richo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:10 am

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me what the load rating is for the roof rails on the KJ (in kilo's - im an aussie)?

I want to put a basket on top of the rails to fit camping stuff in there?

Dje Ryu · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:57 am

If you have the Renegade rails, 29.5kg (65lbs.)
If you have the regular rails, 68kg (150lbs)

I think, if I'm wrong, well somebody will correct me, I hope.

JeepinG · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:01 pm

You're right. I really like the rennie rails, but I had to dump them for the regular, and much beefier rails.

chetos · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:06 pm

Dje Ryu wrote:

If you have the Renegade rails, 29.5kg (65lbs.)
If you have the regular rails, 68kg (150lbs)

I think, if I'm wrong, well somebody will correct me, I hope.

Is that right? I would have thought they other way around. Why did they make those that way?

stick · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:35 pm

I think it's just all the plastic on the renegade rack that is rated at 65 pounds. If you take all the plastic off, the rails underneath are just standard rails...right??

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:38 pm

Nope, the newer silver rene rails are just hollow thin tubes.

Standard are smaller and thus less hollow, that is why they are stronger, but the plastic feet are still week and will break at the bar.

richo · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:21 pm

thanks,

the kj is an 02 limited with the thickish black only rails

what is the loading rating for those?

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:13 pm

The old Rennie rails ('03) like mine were standard rails with plastic (tupperware :wink:

) clipped to them. I believe if I remove my Tupperware the rating goes back up. The lower rating is due to the cheap clamps used to attach the basket to the stock rails.

Adam, on here (haven't heard from him in a while), cut through the inside sides of his Rennie basket and mounted standard (Thule I think) crossbars to his stock rails and thus was able to keep the basket but had a more solid base for mounting things.

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:56 pm

richo wrote:

thanks,

the kj is an 02 limited with the thickish black only rails

what is the loading rating for those?

150 lbs.

stick · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:22 pm

Yeah, I was thinking about the Tupperware basket thing on the earlier Renegades. I have one of those and the plastic is rated at 65 pounds, but I also have the standard black rails underneath that should be rated at 150 pounds. I knew the newer Renegades had the bigger silver rails, but didn't realize they were only rated at 65 pounds. Thats stupid

I had been thinking about cutting the plastic enough to mount some Yakima mounts and cross bars. I wasn't sure how well it would look / work though.

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