good enough

Bought these to be able to add kayak holders to the roof of our van. We actually had an incident where the front crossbar support came off our van while driving on the freeway and our 2 kayaks then flew off our vehicle fortunately off to the right side of the road that had a large shoulder so no cars were hit. The straps and buckles aren't very high quality and the rubber footings on the bars that sit on the roof of the car are quite mediocre. I double check my straps a little better than before and manually press the buckle into the strap rather than relying on the simple spring mechanism to hold the strap in place. While I don't highly recommend going this route with these as long as you ensure they're installed well and double check the buckles hopefully you'll be alright but I would recommend going the hitch and trailer route if your car doesn't already have a cargo rack and then just make sure your next vehicle has them from the get go.

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