advice roof bars or roof rack 2023 jimny

I removed my bars as I finally got the tow bar fitted, it's the only real storage solution for the jimny, although I am considering getting bars again, just for carrying traction boards to free up a little interior space so some fishing gear can live in there, the racks would work for fishing rod holders as well.

 

Busta wrote:

Given that we have a 30kg limit, and even the lightest roof basket will be close to half of that, you can't feasibly carry a full jerry can, cool box or suitcase on the roof of a Jimny. Luckily those are all things that will fit inside the car. The roof is only really useful for carrying long things that won't fit inside the car. Anything over 1m long can easily be attached to a pair of roof bars 

If your Jimny is so full that you can't fit a jerry can in it then there's a very good chance you're already over the gross vehicle weight anyway.

Please tell me that you're not serious - fuel in the passenger compartment is a major no no.  Carrying fuel on the roof of a vehicle is not optimal, but I've done it on other vehicles, since I can't do it on a Jimny, and I won't carry fuel in the passenger compartment, my only option is an extended range fuel tank - it's expensive, but it is safer than a jerry can in the passenger compartment.  Long Ranger makes 80 liter tanks for both the three door & five door Gen4s.

Im running the ARB Base Rack. and it is lighter that the frontrunner. 

And it is very silent. No wind noise  

and it looks better that the frontrunner, and better quality. 

The ARB still weighs 15kg and Suzuki's roof limit is 30kg, so you can [safely] carry 15kg load.

I will be the first to admit a decent roof rack could safely carry more, especially if the weight was evenly distributed, but once the manufacturer imposes a limit and you exceed it your insurance becomes void.

I further note that ARB recommend a wind deflector for the Jimny, this is to stop wind loading taking you [massively] over the safe weight limit.

fordem wrote:

Busta wrote:

Given that we have a 30kg limit, and even the lightest roof basket will be close to half of that, you can't feasibly carry a full jerry can, cool box or suitcase on the roof of a Jimny. Luckily those are all things that will fit inside the car. The roof is only really useful for carrying long things that won't fit inside the car. Anything over 1m long can easily be attached to a pair of roof bars 

If your Jimny is so full that you can't fit a jerry can in it then there's a very good chance you're already over the gross vehicle weight anyway.

Please tell me that you're not serious - fuel in the passenger compartment is a major no no.  Carrying fuel on the roof of a vehicle is not optimal, but I've done it on other vehicles, since I can't do it on a Jimny, and I won't carry fuel in the passenger compartment, my only option is an extended range fuel tank - it's expensive, but it is safer than a jerry can in the passenger compartment.  Long Ranger makes 80 liter tanks for both the three door & five door Gen4s.

 

100% serious. It's perfectly safe and legal to carry fuel inside your car as long as it's in an approved container (talking UK here, but the same is true in most European countries). I have a fuel can in my car most of the time. How do you think people in normal cars carry fuel for lawnmowers and such?

There is a huge difference between occasionally carrying a few liters of fuel for a few kilometers on the one hand, and setting out on a 500km (one way) trip with an additional 40 liters of fuel on the other.

It's not unusual here to see vehicles (not Jimnys) with as many as 5 roof mounted 30 liter fuel containers