| soundman98 |
05-17-2019 10:51 PM |
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Originally Posted by TimeLord
(Post 3218831)
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so the problem with the archway/gateway series of racks is that they rest on the paint. i have a saris bones rack that i used on a different car-- one 10 mile trip to the trails was enough to permanently obliterate the paint in every spot the rack touched. the paint looked like it was wet-snded with 120 grit. and that was with cleaning the car and the bike rack pads before use.
i was never able to get the rack to fully tighten down either-- it was a tighten, drive 2 miles and then retighten type ordeal. i was able to avoid further paint damage by using soft towels under all the contact points, but because of the tighten/drive/retighten thing i lost a lot of towels, and ended up with new marks in the paint. i don't believe that thule's rack options are going to be any different in performance.
so suffice it to say, i don't like options that touch the paint, though all of those will clear the dinky oem spoiler.
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