Fortuner roof carrying weight capacity

[K-9]

In the past when we did not have off-road trailers, we all totally overloaded our roof racks big time, when we travelled. And nothing happened to most of us. A few fell over going off road and a few fell over going too fast around the corner and missed the bend. A few windscreens cracked etc.

Back then we all welded a whole lot of steel together, sent it for galvanizing added some wood for a deck. Then we overloaded the strong already over weight roof rack with tons of stuff we needed. I shudder when I start calculating the weight we loaded those days, and the galvanized roof rack needed a pully system to get onto the roof. Those days it was land rovers, cruisers and a very few bakkie 4x4. No suv’s as we know them today.

Two Jerrys can weight say, 50kgs. Hit a big pothole or speedhump and that 50kgs are now hundreds of kgs at that moment.

Or that 50kg on a sharp corner is now hundreds of kgs pulling sideways. Roll overs is a big concern, manufactures don’t want to be blamed.

So, a loaded 200kgs becomes a massive weight and that is what causes damage. Not the standing still weight with no outside forces.

The big thing is insurance claims, they don’t want to pay you out and will look for every excuse.

My thinking is, if I load my roof rack and i know it’s over loaded, I drive well within the limits.

I drive through the Transkei every 6 weeks. Having a hardware store in kzn and a farm near Morgan Bay I often carry big loads on the roof and on the trailer. From experience a loaded roof rack does not handle very well, so I drive accordingly.

and Remember it's not the static weight that does the damage.

So it's impossible to say "what a safe roof carrying weight is".

A safe roof rack is probably a MT one. Hence the very low rating of manufactures.

I laughed the other day, my Unimog does not have a bin and I needed weight to add onto the back, I found my old galvanised 1987 roof rack, it was perfect. It’s strong and weights a ton

[Christoff]

I'll try to find the website again but the dynamic roof load capacity on a 2012 said 120kg. The stock load bars, 80kg

[maddad]

Hi,
Is the roof rack mounted at the original mounting points of the roof rails or are there alternatives.
Do you use the same bolts for mounting racks?
If anyone could post some pics
I've seen some fortuners with RTT and RR attached on original rails

[Christoff]

FrontRunner install using to factory holes, I think it comes with plates and their own bolts

Eezi-Awn add their own rails on the roof and the rack mounts to that

Check out their websites

Theoretically you could mount a light RTT (FrontRunner is 43kg) on factory loadbars but it just isn’t a good idea (as per all the previous comments). Remember it can only carry 80kg

Hi,
Is the roof rack mounted at the original mounting points of the roof rails or are there alternatives.
Do you use the same bolts for mounting racks?
If anyone could post some pics
I've seen some fortuners with RTT and RR attached on original rails