I've been looking into a roof rack for my CRD. The ones I've come across are too cheap or cost 400.00+. Does this sound like a reasonable price? I thought it seemed a little steep myself. Thought you guys might have some suggestions on ware too find a good reasonable roof rack. The one i was looking at for 400.00+ is at www.4x4connection.com. Thank for any help.

Somewhere on here there is a thread about a $99 rack(do a search).I have a Defender rack and it cost me $400 so it seems to be about the norm.Just remember you get what you pay for.

Depends what you are going to use it for. i have one of the BMG racks that a lot of us got for real cheap a good while ago. I have had 3 tires on wheels up there, moved my wife to Boston and had stuff piled about 2 1/2 foot high on it (4 huge suit cases 225 lbs plus) and no problems, so just depends

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i have a renegade roof basket for sale if you are interested $185+shipping (~$35)

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That's one of the good ones. That company has a great history with the Jeep community. If you need something that will take you to way out there and back, it's a good one. Some of the safari racks from South Africa and other places are $1200 and more, but they carry around 10 times the load our roof rails are rated for. I don't look at price as much as I look at how important it is for this equipment to perform. If it fails me at the worst time than I've really spent my money poorly.

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I picked up my Garvin Wilderness rack locally from a private seller for dirt cheap; retail was at least $400. It was off an '80s Mitsubishi Montero. It's really strong and doesn't flex at all, and it's rated for 500 lbs, but I would never put more than two or three hundred pounds of gear up there since the rack itself is just mounted to my stock roof rails. Even then, I bet 300 lbs would be pushing it. What's nice is it's so big that I spread everything out and don't have to stack anything. I think I've only needed to put 200 pounds up there, and it hasn't had problems yet. Using the stock rails is crap though, in my opinion. I just wish someone would make aftermarket steel rails to replace the plastic with some sturdier mounting points

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If your rack is long enough, you could make feet for it to mount to the factory rail mounting bolts like some of the KJWest guys did.

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