As the title says, here is a sneak peak at the newly designed and engineered full plug and play audio system from MB Quart. Coming later this year.
New replacement door speakers, dahs tweeters, rear pillar speakers, 5 channel amp with its own mounting plate, full plug and play harness, will fit...
so again, you said a bed rack will hold substantially more weight than a roof rack, yet you posted above the same weigh ratings for your bed rail mounted cross bars. not to be a jerk just saying.
FYI I have had 2 of those basket types rust out with in 1 year of use on a car that was garaged...
I didn't look at this some, but have chopped many roofs in a wide range of cars/trucks. most have about 3-6 layers of 16-20 gauge or thicker metal formed into one with flange for structure where the roof skin, b pillars, exterior skin reinforcement, etc all are spot welded together.
in many...
just to be clear, if desired you could always purchase new roof rail trim pieces and plug the 3/8" holes up and install new trim, back to factory look.
Can you please provide a link to support your statement about a bed rack like yours, that is substantially more capable of carrying a load, than a roof rack?
Bed rails as a structure are no where close to as stong as a roof seem. I get the fact its way easier to bolt on some clamps for a rail...
to clarify what your saying, the outer trim, the piece that has the 7/16" hole saw through it, is just a trim piece, that holds no structural value to the truck, its held on with 4 studs that secure with nuts that are located inside the truck and to remove them you need to drop the headliner...
there is no way to install a "dubbler" or backer etc in that space, there is multiple panels that come together as a structure where these mount, its probably id say the strongest junction on these trucks as unibodies.
bingo, maybe these guys think your drilling in the center of the roof skin? the "roof" as they are calling it is the actual skin in the center of the truck, these racks install through the side rails where all the panels seem together.
man , if your Forrester was anything like an outback, this really suck to install, you hav ego drop teh while head liner and remove the factory stuff first, blind nuts etc
its a 3"8 hole, if that hole causes structure issues, that means your upside down or getting crushed by a massive load that would cripple the truck flat already. plus, your installing a plus not with a bolt back into he cavity, so really your not having an open space anyways.
its not bad with the correct tools, you can remove it any time, just get some grommets to install into the holes, its only 4 1/4" threaded holes.
ill use it for my paddle boards, snowboards, and maybe roof top tent
I installed a Prinsu roof rack on my 25 lobo, I'm loving the looks, kind of blending 2 styles together!
you do have to drill 4 holes in the roof, and its not suer easy, but after struggling with the front driver side, I think there is more structure there , or its hardened beam the other 3 where...
prinsu rack is super nice 400 dynamic load and 800 static!
https://prinsu.com/product/ford-maverick-prinsu-roof-rack-2022-2023/?srsltid=AfmBOor3peHXIvRXKuJMsSTHnls7WO-iHJVUA218lvllSLESGiT63neS