Roof bars for Fiat Ducato

[Deleted member 89681]

Hi folks. Anyone have experience of having roof bars / a rack made? Think I've found a kit for mounting points for a Ducato, but not sure what's best to use as the bars themselves.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Fergus

 

[wildebus]

Hi folks. Anyone have experience of having roof bars / a rack made? Think I've found a kit for mounting points for a Ducato, but not sure what's best to use as the bars themselves.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Fergus

Depends what you are wanting a roof rack for?
I installed the 'proper' fiamma Roof Rack on Annies Adria Twin Ducato. Used it as a base for installing a good sized solar array without relying on either adhesive or making extra holes in the roof.
Not a cheap option, but worked very well.

You have probably seen the kits for attaching things to the roof mounting points? probably just my own personal risk averse approach, but I am wary about those solutions that rely on those points as the primary securing and weight bearing point. I think they are designed as a locking point only and not a loading point - For example, the Fiamma rack uses them to lock the rack into place, but the actual rack rests on two loading points per lock point and is far more robust a setup.

In terms of bars, the most popular DIY method I think is probably Unistrut.

 

[vindiboy]

Hi folks. Anyone have experience of having roof bars / a rack made? Think I've found a kit for mounting points for a Ducato, but not sure what's best to use as the bars themselves.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Fergus

Getting a Ducato Campervan shortly and it has roof rack ,bike rack ,and ladder attached and I will be removing it all and putting it all up for sale I believe it all to be OMNISTORE ??

 

[Bigshug]

Hi Fergus I have a pair of thule roof bars for my citroen relay