Roof rack & awning

[Ricof4e]

Everyone knows the moment you fit a roof rack and awning to your 4x4, it instantly increases your vehicle's 4x4 capability.

Everyday I see true 4x4 enthusiasts with roof racks and awnings fitted permanently to their 4x4s as they go about their daily tasks - hell some of them even has jerry cans and axes fitted permanently - you know, for when they need it to refill at the mall or chop down their store-bought Spar charcoal.

I must be a 4x4 yobbo then - a true 4x4 pretender.

The first thing I do when I get back from a trip - where I actually need a roof rack and awning - I take it off, clean it and store it neatly away. The increased fuel consumption forces me to do so.

Perhaps I need to fit a snorkel then - to make up for the loss in power and to increase fuel consumption. Yes! Then I never have to take off my rack and awning!

[Johannes]

Guilty !! At least no Axes or spades and jerry cans

Got no space , thats my excuse ?? Although i do use it to cart ladders and poles often.

[Nico-MAD]

My rooftop tent, awning and water tank stays on permanently. But then it's not my everyday transport.

[Wave]

I'm lazy, my RTT comes off, the car cannot fit in the garage with it on.
My awning, stays, but thats all, so I pretty much, currently, drive around with just a roof rack on, but it has come in handy when all of a sudden something long or too big to go in the car needs to be transported and we just slap it on the roof rack. I carry 4 small ratchet straps in the car now, just for this reason.

I have one of those Fredlin Hoists, but need to actually fit it to my carport roof, its still in the box . Currently time is limited, maybe in the next 2 weeks I can get it fitted, refit the RTT and then remove the whole setup.

[Ricof4e]

@Johannes, Nico & Wave - I just noticed something from your profile pics...

Read the last sentence of my first post...

You all have snorkels fitted -

Lazy bastards

[Wave]

#snorkelFTW!

[Johannes]

No snorkel on V8 ?? What profile pic are you looking at ?

[Nico-MAD]

@Johannes, Nico & Wave - I just noticed something from your profile pics...

Read the last sentence of my first post...

You all have snorkels fitted -

Lazy bastards

And so dam proud of it. If you're not strong you gotta be clever.

[cor123]

Rooftop and awning comes off, but roof rack stays, LR without looks a bit bare and a schlepp to take off, working on the spade and axe “looks cool “ besides you might need them to get out of potholes around here

[cor123]

O ja , roofrack , lift , and a v8 , jerry cans got to stay , it’s a necessity


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[GarrethG]

What a silly post, I don’t understand why fit something then remove it and have to refit it when you go away. Who has all that time


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[Mad Manny]

Gareth, if you go for a hike, do you take off your backpack when you stop for lunch or do you just keep wearing it?

[Ricof4e]

Gareth, if you go for a hike, do you take off your backpack when you stop for lunch or do you just keep wearing it?

[GarrethG]

Gareth, if you go for a hike, do you take off your backpack when you stop for lunch or do you just keep wearing it?

Do you go to the pick n pay down the road from you without your shoes on?


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[Mad Manny]

Do you go to the pick n pay down the road from you without your shoes on?

No I don't.
I put shoes on to go to P'nP
But later, when I go to bed, I take my shoes off.

Are you starting to get our point, or are you too busy scrubbing polish off bed sheets?