Car roof Ski Boxes
 

Hello,

It is off season now. Well we had 15cm (6") snow in the
laurentians this week but it is probably gone by now. Here
is my off season request for information.

Car roof ski boxes were made of ABS. Is it still so?
How much should i fear abs exposure to the sun. What do
you used to protect the ski box? Armor-all, 303. I know
armor-all is damagable to some materials like Latex. Is it
ok for ABS? I used 303 for years. How about McNett
protector for canoes? Armor-all and 303 are widely available.
Something else?

A more general question. Old (10+ years) black ski boxes
tend to turn whitish. Is this plastic degrading into some
kind of powder?

Anyone know of a brand of shallow and long (210 cm skis)
brand of ski boxes. With mosts ski boxes and my current
car i cannot get into the garage. I checked when i boutht
the car 3 years ago, maybe something new appeared on the
the market since then.



Sylvain

Car roof Ski Boxes
 

Sylvain Fauvel wrote:
Hello,

It is off season now. Well we had 15cm (6") snow in the
laurentians this week but it is probably gone by now. Here
is my off season request for information.

Car roof ski boxes were made of ABS. Is it still so?
How much should i fear abs exposure to the sun. What do
you used to protect the ski box? Armor-all, 303. I know
armor-all is damagable to some materials like Latex. Is it
ok for ABS? I used 303 for years. How about McNett
protector for canoes? Armor-all and 303 are widely available.
Something else?

I simply don't worry about it: The ski box lasts at least as long as the
car (we tend to keep them for 8-10 years).

Our current car (a 2003 diesel from Opel (i.e. Euro GM)) has a Packline
ski box which we bought because it is fairly low profile, so it fits
inside our (small) garage.

We get about 6.7 l/100 km when driving with studded winter tires and the
ski box, i.e. about 35 miles/gallon for our metric-challenged friends in
the US.

A more general question. Old (10+ years) black ski boxes
tend to turn whitish. Is this plastic degrading into some
kind of powder?

Anyone know of a brand of shallow and long (210 cm skis)
brand of ski boxes. With mosts ski boxes and my current
car i cannot get into the garage. I checked when i boutht
the car 3 years ago, maybe something new appeared on the
the market since then.

Here in Norway a large percentage of all cars have ski boxes, and they
are all long enough to handle racing xc skis.

Terje

PS. The ski season officially ended for us this week, we had our last
nice xc trip on Monday (crust cruisin' in Rauland), then drove down to
the Hvaler archipelago on Tuesday. Today it was hot enough to do my run
around the island in running shorts and top. :-)
--
- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

Car roof Ski Boxes
 

Thanks for the reply. I never heard of packline but will
check if they sell in Quebec.

One inno model (25cm high) was just a bit too short. It
was not cheap either. Looks like there is lot more
choice in Norway. Here it looks like the market is dominated
by 2 or 3 brands.

Tusen Takk.
fauvel at emt dot inrs dot ca

Sylvain

On 2011-04-23, Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote:
Sylvain Fauvel wrote:
Hello,

It is off season now. Well we had 15cm (6") snow in the
laurentians this week but it is probably gone by now. Here
is my off season request for information.

Car roof ski boxes were made of ABS. Is it still so?
How much should i fear abs exposure to the sun. What do
you used to protect the ski box? Armor-all, 303. I know
armor-all is damagable to some materials like Latex. Is it
ok for ABS? I used 303 for years. How about McNett
protector for canoes? Armor-all and 303 are widely available.
Something else?

I simply don't worry about it: The ski box lasts at least as long as the
car (we tend to keep them for 8-10 years).

Our current car (a 2003 diesel from Opel (i.e. Euro GM)) has a Packline
ski box which we bought because it is fairly low profile, so it fits
inside our (small) garage.

We get about 6.7 l/100 km when driving with studded winter tires and the
ski box, i.e. about 35 miles/gallon for our metric-challenged friends in
the US.

A more general question. Old (10+ years) black ski boxes
tend to turn whitish. Is this plastic degrading into some
kind of powder?

Anyone know of a brand of shallow and long (210 cm skis)
brand of ski boxes. With mosts ski boxes and my current
car i cannot get into the garage. I checked when i boutht
the car 3 years ago, maybe something new appeared on the
the market since then.

Here in Norway a large percentage of all cars have ski boxes, and they
are all long enough to handle racing xc skis.

Terje

PS. The ski season officially ended for us this week, we had our last
nice xc trip on Monday (crust cruisin' in Rauland), then drove down to
the Hvaler archipelago on Tuesday. Today it was hot enough to do my run
around the island in running shorts and top. :-)

Car roof Ski Boxes
 

http://www.packasport.com/ Might be the same as Packline, I'm not sure.
Not cheap, but very nice fiberglass boxes, including a low-profile one
that I'm pretty sure will hold at least some 210 cm skis.

Car roof Ski Boxes
 

On 2011-05-14, pebo wrote:
http://www.packasport.com/ Might be the same as Packline, I'm not sure.
Not cheap, but very nice fiberglass boxes, including a low-profile one
that I'm pretty sure will hold at least some 210 cm skis.


Excellent. Until now, the thinnest i saw were 12" high.
The Packasport 60lp is 9" high which would fit my garage
door. I will check if there is a local dealer of
shipping to Montreal is possible.

Thanks a lot.

Sylvain
fauvel at emt dot inrs dot ca