What has made you Angry Today???????

[Brissieboy]

I was discussing with a group on Facebook today about my roof rack. Sometime mentioned I should check if it had been riveted on or if it had been nutserted. I had a look this Arvo, sure enough it was riveted on, needless to say I find that pretty disappointing, I've had holes drilled in my roof and that wasn't disclosed when I bought the rack. There is no way of removing it if I need to either now.

I would be VERY suspicious of any rack that is riveted (or nutserted) onto the roof - unless all those fixings went into the supporting structure of the roof and not just into the jam tin thin roof material. There is just too little support for sideways forces and the pressures placed on them by off-road use. Rack loading needs to be very carefully considered, I think.