Thread: D4 long roof rails... aftermarket

Keep your current short tracks... retro fit rhino tracks to the front...https://roofrack.com.au/product/rhin...ry-3-4-tracks/ stronger and more flexible

06 Disco 3

Watch out for them being misaligned and actually twisting on your roof mounts.

I just use 3x Rhino aero bars and feet with the long wire platform and remove the front bar for noise reduction when only using the small basket on the rear two bars. Not overly expensive at all

Rob

Keep your current factory short tracks then add front tracks and use rhino legs and bars. And cage of choice https://roofrack.com.au/product/rhin...ry-3-4-tracks/ then use

06 Disco 3

I went through this only last month. I looked at getting the same style of aftermarket rails but didn’t want to take the risk of non genuine.
This is the link to my post.
eBay Roof Racks
eBay Roof Racks
TAKE NOTE!! When you take the caps off that hold the strip down, get a thread tap thing to clean the crap out, I broke a nut off and it was a PITA to fix.
I bought these and were delivered to work the next day. (Melbourne)
New Genuine Land Rover Discovery 3 &4 Extended Roof Rail Bright Silver VPLAR0075 | eBay
Dave

I can’t agree enough. You MUST tap the thread right through. I suspect they get gummed up with sealant in the build process and the bolts will not go down far enough. All of mine were in need of retapping.

My threads had little almost clear plastic plugs in, quite difficult to see, that I flicked out with a small screwdriver blade. Powerful UK have a good installation video.

Thanks to all; after checking out the after market ones and the genuine rails in the flesh I went the genuine rails. Shopping the dealers saw them quote anywhere from $860 (pushed for trade price) to nearly $1100, and $409 for fitting!! The local parts shop though took a fair bit off though when I was there which made it more palatable.

The install was easy too; not 4 hours according to the the dealer! Less than 2 hours with a head lamp on in the dark. Whilst the guys on the YouTube clip use that silly drill bit which minces the rail, I bought a Suttons bi-metal holesaw bit which gave an awesome finish. I’ll probably never need it again if anyone’s interested in it...

and i agree, the threads needed a clean up with a tap. Fortunately pincers got the fir tree plugs out unbroken no there was no need to drill out.

Thanks again