roof rack????

willriseley · Post by **willriseley** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:20 pm

anyone know if a beetle or camper roof rack will fit a mk2 olop?i really need some help here to make the ultimate rat looker.....oh yeah

Bluebel · Post by **Bluebel** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:20 pm

An aircooled roof rack will be too big, but there are plenty of other roof racks on ebay that will fit.

i have a 1950's one on mine and we have an even older one for Matt's project.

Both only cost us pennies

willriseley · Post by **willriseley** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:44 pm

what are they from tho bud cos i need to get one sorted? i was thinkin a beetle one would fit like on the "got wood" mk3 polo

Jim1500 · Post by **Jim1500** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:17 am

Yeah but remember how curved a beetle roof is and the roof racks are normally curved too. A Polo roof is virtually flat so even if it wasn't too wide it'd either sit about 1ft off the roof or wouldn't look right being curved.......that make sense???

mk2matt · Post by **mk2matt** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:45 pm

beetle 1 wont fit mate i have tried

u prob could make it fit but it would not look right

ours are made by eversure, and look spot on.

just look on fleabay for gutter roof racks as thats what you need

willriseley · Post by **willriseley** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:59 pm

yeah ill have alook.just hooked up a please pass light for the window

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:36 am

I have a standard Pold c and needed also ann astra estate with roof rails. I had a set of thule roof bars for thye astra and wanted to use them on th epolo. Saw a ranger at the scrap yard with th eroof bars.

Carefully took them off so I could see how they went on, measured where the holes in the roof were then went home armed with a 1 inch hole saw for the drill.

Next came the leap of faith. After marking out the hole position carefully then checking maybe 10 times again I attacked the roof with the hole saw. Fortunately there bang in line were the mounting bolt holes for the roof bars( I think they all have them there as standard). After carefully unclipping the roof lining it was a simple bolt on job albeit with plenty of clear silicon in the hole just in case. Then hey presto ranger roof bars on the standard polo with the thule roof bars fitting perfectly. it looks great and i regularly use it for work with two sets of 3m long triple ladders. Even had 5 sheets of 18mm 8' x 4' marine ply boards (v. heavy)on the top the other day.

The polo knows no limits.

Just as an aside I needed 24 empty beer crates for a soakaway in my garden in the summer, my dad had some and took them into his work in his Dodge Ram pick up. With the rear cover on he had to have about 4 of them inside the cab and said I would need a few runs to get them home.

Rear sets popped down, then little polo ate them up with only one on the front seat!

Polo 1 - Dodge Ram 0

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:28 am

Steilhecks rule for hauling crap around. I moved a couple of pa speakers in the back of mine that wouldn't fit in an omega

willriseley · Post by **willriseley** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:00 pm

got myself a 1960's victoria rack so gunna get it on then gey some piccys up

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:12 pm

this is what i have which i think is pretty retro!

the problem is that it sits way too high for my liking. so hopefully i'm going to chop the legs down a bit to bring it closer to the car!

willriseley · Post by **willriseley** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:33 pm

im not sure what mine looks like yet havnt put it together.