Pros And Cons Of Using Roof Racks Of Your Vehicle For Storage When Travelling

There are two sides to every roof rack. Make no mistake, while most of it are pros there can be a few cons too. Here's how to decide the best mode of carrying your luggage when travelling.

Pros to a roof rock of your vehicle for storage when travelling:

The main pro of course is the fact that a roof rack allows you to carry a lot more luggage than you normally could in your vehicle – it creates additional space.

Another pros to a roof rock of your vehicle for storage when travelling is that you can carry large and unwieldy items that would not normally fit inside your vehicle. For example a bike, or kayak or ski or a ladder, snowboards, canoes or some large items like chairs.

You can also use the roof rack to carry some stuff you don't wanna put inside your vehicle – e.g. soil for your garden or organic manure or plants or even pots for your garden.

My personal favourite is being able to put a tent on the roof of my SUV cause my wife and daughter don't wanna put their sleeping bags on the ground as they are scared of snakes and scorpions. So while poor me sleeps on the floor I pitch a tent for them inside the roof rack cradle.

On the negative or con side of things, a speciality roof rack like the ones used to carry bike, or kayak or ski or a ladder, snowboards, canoes or some large items have clamps and stuff on them. While these types of roof racks are okay for sports outing, they might not be as effective during your regular shopping trip to the local mall. For this kind of thing, a regular cradle-like roof rack is ideal which means you might have to buy two roof racks and install the speciality roof rack for carrying bikes, or kayaks or skies or a ladder, snowboards, canoes or some large items only when required.

The other con we are told is the possibility of roof rack decreasing your vehicle mileage by increasing wind resistance. When you carry bike, or kayak or ski or a ladder, snowboards, canoes or some large items, these offer severe wind resistance which in turn increases your vehicle fuel consumption. In fact, two scientists in USA Alan Meier of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Yuche Chen of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory did a study on this and published a report in the journal Energy Policy.

The third con is that not all Custom Roof Racks are created equal folks who are less informed will often go for a bargain deal which usually means a cheap Chinese rip-off. These racks are very likely to break, be poorly designed and have very short life-spans.

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