Considering buying a Thule Ranger 90 roof bag. Has anyone used or owned one? Are they any good or am I best buying a roof basket.

I will only ever be using the roof for extra camping equipment, not keen on having to store a huge solid roof box!

I have one and can recommend it. Doesn`t obstruct the sun-roof. Quite big when folded.

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Hi Torssell

That Thule Roof Bag looks interesting

Can you provide any further details / pictures, for example:
Does it fold completely flat for storage?
Does it flap around and become very noisy when travelling at motorway speeds?
How is it secured to the roof cross bars, and is it quick to put on and off the roof?
Is it fully storm proof and keeps the contents dry?
Finally, do you have a Thule part number for this product?

Thanks

This girl seems to like the T.R. 90 but she can't stop saying hi to everyone about the "Soooleee"

Thanks for the picture. It looks a good size.

I just hope it keeps stuff dry when driving in the rain. The bag it folds into looks fairly strong as well.

athelstan wrote:

Hi Torssell

That Thule Roof Bag looks interesting

Can you provide any further details / pictures, for example:
Does it fold completely flat for storage?
Does it flap around and become very noisy when travelling at motorway speeds?
How is it secured to the roof cross bars, and is it quick to put on and off the roof?
Is it fully storm proof and keeps the contents dry?
Finally, do you have a Thule part number for this product?

Thanks

Many thanks Torssell for the fulsome response to my questions - appreciated.

Her Ladyship's FL2 does not have a sunroof so that fact will help keep the noise levels down a little. Have now got my trusty Thule supplier on the job to supply a Ranger 90 and, the Thule 8006 internal bag set for extra weather protection - all at a great price. It's her birthday soon so this is an "extra" surprise present.

athelstan wrote:

This girl seems to like the T.R. 90 but she can't stop saying hi to everyone about the "Soooleee"

All Thule Roofbag users go "Hi, hi!"

Hej Hej


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Just to update... Finally got round to buying the ranger 90, should arrive tomorrow in the post.

Will post pictures!

Her Ladyship now has one - just gives that extra load space to compensate for the FL2's restricted interior loadspace. Handy as daughter and her mum seem to tour with enough gear to last half a year, and then buy more stuff whilst away without thinking of where the devil are they going to put it inside the Freely

Only downside so far to the R90 is that our LR Cross Bars have their ski rack permanently fitted and to use the R90 it has been a pain to disassemble the ski rack to fit the R90 and vis-a-vié.

So now looking for another set of LR Cross Bars to dedicate to the R90. Site sponsor Dan needs to sharpen his pencil before another source pops up with a great deal

AWESOME

I'm looking at it too! I probably will buy it soon

Any problem to have it installed on the OEM Land Rover cross bars?
The THULE instructions for installation request a maximum width of the cross bars of 82mm but my local reseller told me that OEM Land Rover cross bars are 85mm width...

torssell wrote:

Not too noisy, but as I have both the LED-bar and lights on a crossbar plus the rooofbag

What? Any pics of this?