Roof rack shade.

[voltron]

Has anybody boarded their roof rack to provide shade and shelter the roof from the sun. It's hot today and Im off to rockhampton soon. Any heat reduction idea is a good idea. Just wandering idnitnhped with in can temps at all.

[phill 130]

Yeah, a tarp

Bit hard to drive with it on but

[n plus one]

Has anybody boarded their roof rack to provide shade and shelter the roof from the sun. It's hot today and Im off to rockhampton soon. Any heat reduction idea is a good idea. Just wandering idnitnhped with in can temps at all.

I run a 2.8m Hannibal roof basket which blocks ~ 50% of the sun on the roof. On top if this I run a 2.1m hard shell RTT plus my MaxTrax so I'm basically have somewhere in the order of 90% of the roof blocked.

Fair to say that, in combination with tinted, near vertical, windows means the truck is normally pretty cool inside.

[voltron]

Guess it's worth doing then.

Cheers guys.

[rar110]

My next roof rack would have alloy checker plate either in strips 300mm wide or a whole sheet with tie down rings.

[voltron]

My next roof rack would have alloy checker plate either in strips 300mm wide or a whole sheet with tie down rings.

Good idea. I never thought about checker plate . I just bought 3mm black Perspex .

[redrovertdi]

I think it makes a difference, also good for loading up and as a viewing platform, keeps it cooler in the back but large perspex sunroof/escape vent over the front lets the heat it

[voltron]

The Perspex isn't transparent if that's what you mean but I just got to Rockhampton this morning and it seems to be doing a great job after sitting in the direct sun for a few hours and the car was like having sat under a tree.
Glad I did it before I came.

[Iain_B]

I have a full length roof rack, completely covered with a 9mm marine ply sheet - painted white both sides. Combined with a white Land Rover, tinted windows, blockout screens on the rear gull wing windows and rear passenger windows, we travel in 30-40 degree with the a/c on low or medium at most, with the vent in the "demist" position, and even then the missus turns the a/c off often as she is getting cold

[voltron]

I also put a 40mm Eva foam partition up between the backseat and load space. This also reduces the air cons workload. I carpeted it to make it blend with the interior. I imagine it's much similar to the 130 in cab space it needs to cool down.