Thread: Discovery 4 Roof Loading

The limits relate to loads when driving. The roof is also designed to support more than the weight of the car without crushing the occupants in a vehicle roll over. It will easily cope with a few sleeping adults. Just be careful if you roll over

I did a lot of shopping around before I bought the Tradesman Oval Alloy rack for my D4. Most distributors stated that there are 'reasons' for the load rating that don't apply to reality. The Tradesman is rated at 150KG and I gathered that that number is being conservative.

Cheers,

Kev.

Originally Posted by Celtoid

I did a lot of shopping around before I bought the Tradesman Oval Alloy rack for my D4. Most distributors stated that there are 'reasons' for the load rating that don't apply to reality. The Tradesman is rated at 150KG and I gathered that that number is being conservative.

Cheers,

Kev.

They are certainly a nice looking strong rack.

So it looks like the prevailing opinion is that the roof structure can handle one sleeping fat guy and his lovely wife...

Another thing I am looking at now is a new product from Track Trailer.

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I am trying to find out how much the basic trailer package is. From that I will add the racks to fit the roof top tent.

Sneigy has as usual the correct figures. Which are generally ignored by all and sundry, including Land Rover themselves - look at the G4 Challenge vehicles for an example.

BTW the limits for the Patrol and LC100/200 are 200kg. 75kg is on the low side for its class. But we won't mention payload of the Japanese cars then ;-)

The 75kg is also a moving load. Static, ie climbing up top it would be different, but nobody knows how much by because no manufacturer thinks to test it.

If the roof buckles, probably too much.

Originally Posted by mowog

So it looks like the prevailing opinion is that the roof structure can handle one sleeping fat guy and his lovely wife...

Another thing I am looking at now is a new product from Track Trailer.

Pat Callinan's 4x4 Adventures - LATEST NEWS

I am trying to find out how much the basic trailer package is. From that I will add the racks to fit the roof top tent.

You mean the trailer, or the sleeper unit? The latter is a third party addon. Name escapes me. I had a squiz at the Caravan show - its pretty cosy (small), and has a weird internal string bracing system. You'd want to be athletic...
Out of interest, the base trailer is $14k!!! And weighs 590kg...

I found out the base cost yesterday... We already own an ARB roof top tent.

So today a new idea was born... Build my own trailer.

The father inlaw has a great workshop / machine shop he is retired and loves little projects. I am working through a costing exercise now using either Cruise Master Coil or Control Rider coil suspension.

I have found some plans that cater for the Cruise Master Coil suspension.

Does anyone know about the safety of a roof top ten + 2 adults weight on a Freelander 2? the couple of roof rack people I have called said the landrover freelander roof capacity wont hold it safely but ive seen photos of FL2's with roof to tents :/